Three Horses Collapse on Horse Flight That Exceeds Time Limit

February, 2023 "… three horses were down in the crate when they arrived so we will keep watching them carefully." It is predictable that legal limits for food, water and…

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CFIA Exposed Again (and Again)

January 2023 The CFIA appears to have relied on a CHDC blog posting before being prompted to update their webpage "Know the Facts".  Now we see the following update on…

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American Horses Now a Target for Export to Japan

With the help of a copy of the new Certificate obtained through Access to Information, we have finally been able to verify that horses from the United States are fair…

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CFIA Acknowledges Transport Time Issues

January 2023 Following a one-week delay, another Korean Air Cargo 747 left the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport  on September 12, 2022, after being loaded with 99 two-year-old horses…

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Japan’s Sacrificial Lamb: A Gentle Giant from Canada

Read this article published in Japan Times and weep not only for the draft horse about to be sacrificed on January 4, 2023, but for the thousands of equine lives…

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Attention Horse Defenders!

Our relentless patron Jann Arden has initiated parliamentary petition e-4190 to put pressure on the Canadian government to end the cruel exports of live horses to Japan for slaughter. Her goal…

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