Bingo Helps to Feed Rescued Mustangs

Success! Many thanks to everyone who came out in support of WFLF’s Bingo fundraiser last night! It was a packed house! The goal to raise funds to purchase hay to feed the rescued Navajo Mustangs and foals in WFLF’s Sanctuary program, was a success. Great fun was had by all who attended and awareness was raised for the need to protect and preserve America’s horses.

Celebrities who attended include Kate Linder of “The Young and the Restless”, celebrity sports host,

Heather S Michaels and international award winning filmmaker, Katia Louise, amongst others who made appearances on behalf of benefiting the Wild For Life Foundation charity mission to save horses' lives.

The success of the fundraiser will feed 20 Mustangs for approx 2 weeks, which helps a lot, but more support is needed to help feed and save more horses. “We are looking to rally twenty-five hundred horse loving people who are generously willing to donate $10 monthly to help off-set the cost of food, medical care and housing for rescue horses,” says Katia Louise, filmmaker Saving America’s Horses. “Monthly giving is the easiest way to support the lifesaving mission of Wild For Life Foundation (WFLF). Your monthly gifts provide a consistent, reliable lifeline stream that allows WFLF to tackle whatever case comes through their doors.” Lifeline Legacy Circle Members can be anonymous or receive recognition. Either way this kind and loyal group of individuals and families help assure that victimized equines will never be mistreated, roundup up or at risk of slaughter again!

Join the circle by making a monthly pledge today!
http://www.wildforlifefoundation.org/lifelinelegacy.html

Learn more about WFLF: www.WildForLifeFoundation.org
Like WFLF on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildforLifeFoundation

Please share to help raise more support for horses in need. Thank you!

BINGO to FEED HUNGRY RESCUE HORSES!!

BINGO to FEED HUNGRY RESCUE HORSES!! Wild for Life Foundation is excited and looking forward

to A Night of BINGO on June 10th! Funds raised will help feed victimized wild horses that have been saved from roundups and slaughter. Thank you! Please share!
If you will be in the LA area on June 10th... Come on out to a full-filled night to benefit Wild For Life Foundation's lifesaving equine rescue and recovery program.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 10th, 7PM
WHERE: Viva Cantina, Burbank, CA
10 ROUNDS of BINGO with fabulous PRIZES!
Meet Celebrity Caller, Heather Michaels and International award winning filmmaker of SAVING AMERICA'S HORSES, Katia Louise
Full Menu and Bar
Suggested donation $20
Reservations: BrownPaperTickets.com
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Proceeds to benefit the Wild For Life Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit charity dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving wild and domestic horses and burros though rescue, rehabilitation, education and sanctuary.
Learn more:
www.WildForLifeFoundation.org

BREAKING: California auctioneer charged for sending horse to slaughter

June 6, 2014, California auctioneer charged for sending horse to slaughter.

Madera County Sherriff and KPIX Channel 5 News reports auctioneer Billy Ray Brown Jr., was arrested and charged in a case involving professional rodeo horses and CA auction records traced to a slaughterhouse in Canada.

Many California (CA) residents are shocked by the news which broke yesterday on the heels of an

investigation probing into the illegal CA trade of horses for slaughter. “It’s been going on for years”, states Katia Louise, Wild For Life Foundation President, Director, Saving America’s Horses. “CA horses through no fault of their own, wind up at these auction houses where known kill-buyers seek to meet their quota as driven by the foreign market for horsemeat.  Once designated as food animals most protections under the humane laws no longer apply to them. The records of their sale(s) are conveniently lost or somehow unavailable, making it next to impossible to trace their torturous journey through the slaughter pipeline.  

The average American doesn’t realize that America's wild and domestic horses and burros are being sold in a seedy underground market for their meat at auction and shipped to slaughter in Mexico and Canada for human consumption abroad. Polls indicate of those Americans who are aware, 80% are opposed to these insidious activities.

The 1998 CA 'Prohibition on Slaughter of Horses and Sale of Horsemeat for Human Consumption' prohibits any person from possessing, transferring, receiving or holding any horse, pony, burro or mule with intent to kill it or have it killed, where the person knows or should know that any part of the animal will be used for human consumption, and provides that a violation constitutes a felony offense.  “But horses are virtually being laundered through auction, trade and backyard barn sales, adds Ms Louise.  “The total lack of enforcement is fueled by an absence of appropriated funds which enables the transfer and transport of equines without regulatory inspections or paper trails.”  Yesterday’s summer camp ponies, today’s racehorses and tomorrow’s family pet ponies whose boarding contracts go unpaid, are disappearing across CA state borders into neighboring states where no protective laws exist.

Just last month, the 2015 Agriculture Appropriations bill was approved by the Senate with defunding language intact, which prohibits federally required inspections of horse slaughter facilities in the United States. Without funding for USDA inspections of horsemeat, horse slaughter plants cannot re-open in the U.S. However, there are no federal laws prohibiting the sale or transport of horses across federal borders to be slaughtered outside of the states.

Due to the absence of this federal protection, over 100,000 American horses are shipped across federal borders to slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada each year. What most people don't realize is that 92% of the horses sent to slaughter are sound, young and healthy. These are among America’s finest and brightest horses; champion show horses, Thoroughbred racehorses, professional rodeo horses and even wild horses taken from their native lands.

What can people do to help the horses?

Get the true facts and help raise awareness. Support Wild For Life Foundation and other reputable anti-slaughter equine rescues and sanctuaries.  Ask your state representatives to support the currently pending federal legislation; HR 1094 and SB 541, (the Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2013), which would prohibit the sale or transport of equines and equine parts in interstate or foreign commerce for human consumption.  Talk to others in your local horse communities and encourage them to implement protective measures to keep horses from being sold, given away or auctioned for slaughter.  Enforceable safety provisions can help assure their horses' safety and welfare for the lifetime of each horse.

Learn more and share: www.SavingAmericasHorses.org
http://www.lifetimeequinerefuge.org/adoption.html
Watch Saving America's Horses trailer: http://youtu.be/7Qb68DTz5RQ

Read the June 5th article about the arrest of the CA auctioneer: http://tinyurl.com/lvbbgj5