At Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area, a total of 139 hatchlings
were released, including 93 from the Fort Worth Zoo, which pioneered
breeding programs for Texas horned lizards.
For decades, the
reptile has been vanishing from Texas landscapes. About 10 years ago,
Texas zoos, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials and Texas
Christian University researchers partnered to try to learn how to bring
the critter back to certain pockets of the state…
Animal hoarding is a serious welfare concern and any species may be hoarded, depending on the space the hoarder has access to. White cats, dogs and rodents are common in suburbia, horses may be hoarded in rural areas.
Animal Hoarding isn’t just having lots of animals, it’s a psychological disorder which involves having lots of animals, but also the delusion that you are providing good care for them, even when they are obviously not. These animals may be starving, crowded, and often breeding freely, which means they often become inbred, and we have no idea how inbred they are, because there’s no records.
Blossom was one such foal. She had been born, in the paddock, unsupervised, a day or two before an RSPCA Animal Cruelty Inspector visited the property, in a cold Tasmanian spring. She could not stand at all, so could not nurse, and while all the horses on that property were in abysmal condition, Blossom would have surely died if she hadn’t been seized and taken to our vet hospital.
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