NEWS AND OPINION, UK: From a lawyer’s point of view this is a slightly strange story. It is also a story which provides us with a lesson. A banker, a senior executive at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Yigit Onkan Sazak, and his wife Belma, …
This is about what appears to be a badly treated horse that became very badly injured and developed a very bad infection in the left hind leg. The horse was sold for $50 to a slaughter holding facility and was destined for the knacker’s yard …
In this article I express my opinion as well as reporting on the news. Please remember that. I don’t like the police! 😡 And this story reinforces my dislike but I must be fair. This was an emergencies the police say but they were involved …
This is a charming photograph by the British Army of a couple of the recovered cavalry horses that were injured when they stampeded through London after throwing off their riders having been spooked by some concrete falling onto the ground. There were some stark photographs …
Here is a summary of the event: Emma Keen, a 42-year-old British woman, was gored by a yak while hiking near Mount Everest. The attack occurred as she was Face Timing her family, leaving her with a severe three-inch gash in her leg. Despite the …
Elena Thorman had aspirations of a career in the army before she was thrown from a polo pony, Harri, while she was a groom employed by Catherine Lamacraft. Harri was part of the England team that beat the USA in the Silver Jubilee Cup at …
A study published in 1998 sheds some light on the incidence of emergency department treatment of dog bites in America. The researchers took the data from the 1992-94 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Centre for Health …
This information refers to the UK. My thanks to The Times newspaper of today and the article by Tom Witherow, Shayma Bakht and Tom Ball.
For me, this is an interesting juxtaposition of how a gaseous chemical, nitrous oxide a.k.a. laughing gas can be used successfully on animals in veterinary clinics to sedate them safely but which is abused by humans to the point where it harms them seriously. It …
