We all know where I stand by now.

Should horses be exported for food?
By KAREN OGDEN
Tribune Enterprise Editor

Dapples rests at the far end of Linda Knox's pasture, under a makeshift wooden grave marker decorated with horseshoes. The tan and black mare was about 25 years old, thin and failing, when Knox paid a veterinarian $170 for a lethal injection.
TRIBUNE PHOTO BY ROBIN LOZNAK


Hundreds of horses bound for slaughter and export to Europe stand in pens at the Bar S feedlot in Shelby. A proposed amendment to the federal Horse Protection Act aims to ban the export of horses for slaughter and to shut down horse slaughter plants in the United States

Knox wouldn't have dreamed of sending her pet to the auction ring where Dapples, like hundreds of Montana horses each year, likely would be bought for slaughter, winding up on dinner plates in France, Belgium or Japan.

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Not necessarily to do with slaughter..

But it's something that has gotten quite a few people in an uproar.


Horse owner cries foul over registry
By DAVE LIEBER
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Sara Legvold won't say how many horses she keeps on her 4-acre ranchette.

"I don't want to tell you," she says when I ask. "I don't think it's anybody's business."

The president of the Keller Horse Owners Association says she worries that the prying eyes of big government will be spying on her animals. A week ago, she sent a warning e-mail to that effect to 90 members in her group.

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