Equestrian Travel Mall and Legal Services

How Cute Is This?

2011-11-21T14:06:00.000-08:00

2010-09-15T13:35:00.001-07:00

Practices That Have Infected The Justice System At Every Turn

2009-12-03T11:58:00.001-08:00

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Help Support Companion/Service Animals By Defining Their Valuable Characteristics

2008-06-05T18:11:00.000-07:00

2007-12-31T10:56:00.000-08:00

What Is This Companion and/or Service Animal About?

2006-06-30T20:51:00.000-07:00

My Cat Eats Up All Of The Spiders That Come Into The House

By Kini Cosma

I live alone in an apartment, so I invited a kitten to stay with me. As the kitten grew up, I noticed it leaped on, caught, and ate all the spiders that came in from the cracks of the window panes. That is good because not only am I terrified of spiders, but I am allergic to them too. When I provided medical proof, Equestrian Travel Mall and Legal Services was able to dismiss a $200 pet security deposit for my cat at my apartment.

What Is This Companion and/or Service Animal About?

2006-06-30T20:26:00.000-07:00

1998-2005
Our Beloved "Chrunchie" Killed In The Line Of Duty

The owner of Chrunchie taught her to smile and roll over. She was a horse dog and loved going on horse walks. Chrunchie would pace the bushes so that nothing would run out and spook the horses. She loved children but was suspicious of adults. Still well-behaved, she got along with everyone and gave people a chance. People liked her curly, round, fuzzy tail and they loved Chrunchie where ever she went.

During a neighborhood commotion during a Christmas of 2003, Chrunchie ran out into the street and got hit by a logging truck. She layed on the floor of the hallway hemorrhaging. All of the veterinarians were out of town for the holidays. The owner did not think that Chrunchie would make it.

Praying literally night and day, the owner syringe fed her with soft mushy dog food and water, and carried her to the lawn, Chrunchie slowly regained strength and stopped hemorrhaging. By a process of elimination, the owner felt all of her bones and to no avail, found any to be broken. A fracture on her forearm was splinted up and eventually was the last to heal.

After moving to Oregon, the owner was involved in a political confrontation. She was removed from the custody of the owner and found to be "vicious". The owner was never entitled to an administrative hearing. As a result, Chrunchie was euthanized.

You Be The Juror

2006-06-22T21:03:00.000-07:00

What makes these animals companions

or service animals?

(or both?)

These three beautiful mustangs are "employees" of the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM rides "Centennial Spirit", "Centennial Beauty", and "Pardner" to do a variety of monitoring activities on the public rangelands.

"Abby", a proud member of the Bishop, California, Police Department, rides patrol with owner, Phil West. In addition to being a family pet, companion and show horse, Abby assists with crowd and traffic control, aiding in arrests by using her body weight to control perpetrators.

"Rawhide" and "RePo", after months of training, are proud members of the WhiteWater Therapeutic and Recreational Riding Association. WhiteWater employs these two former wild horses as physical therapy horses for the handicapped and disabled.

What Is Your Service Animal About?

2006-06-22T18:07:00.000-07:00

Halsey Cow Is A Legend In Germany

A German Reporter Finds The American Family That Donated A Calf In The '50s

The Associated Press

Bob Kirk was 13 that Sunday in 1950 when his pastor at the Halsey Methodist Church gave an impassioned sermon about the power of a single cow.

Just a single cow could help feed starving World War II refugees in Europe, the pastor said, urging his congregants to consider a donation to the Heifer Project, launched to give hungry refugees a continuing source of milk rather than a one-time gift of milk powder.

The Kirks didn't have much income from their small family farm, but they could spare a calf-so they hauled what Kirk remembers as a "scrawny little cow" to the train station for shipment overseas. Kirk never knew that the scrawny cow would become the salvation of a widow and her eight children, regarded as a miracle cow by generations. Until now.

A German public radio reporter doing a documentary about resettlement villages for displaced refugees heard the legend of the cow on a visit to Reischswalde, where refugees had been given forested plots to clear and farm in 1950. "The whole village called it a 'milchwunder' - a milk wonder," said Armin Moeller, German public radio reporter. Moeller interviewed Cornelius Queling, who was a teenager when his family received the heifer, soon dubbed "Anny, the Ami-Cow." ("Ami" was a German nickname for American.)

"To German standards, (Anny) was a very small cow, but it was a milk wonder-10 liters of milk it gave daily-about 2.63 gallons," Moeller said. "The Quelings were nine people without a man in the house. It helped them survive the very difficult year before they could sell their first crop."

After completing his documentary, Moeller decided to try to track down the American donor whose name and address were on the Heifer Project agreement still kept by Queling. Though Henry Kirk died in 1966 and the farm's address is no longer simply "Route 1, Halsey, Ore.," the community is small enough that Moeller quickly found Bob Kirk, who lives on the farm with his wife, Carol.

Kirk, who continues to raise money for the Heifter Project at the same Halsey church, was thrilled by a photo of the Quelings with Anny shortly after her arrival. He said he was pleased that the firm they started in Reischswalde is thriving. But he was particularly happy about the legacy of the Quelings' compliance with Heifer Project requirement that they "pass on the gift"-donating Anny's female offspring to other needy families. "It was exciting, very exciting, to get feedback so many years later that something good happened," Kirk said.

What Is Your Companion Animal About?

2006-06-22T18:05:00.000-07:00