The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated a federal law that bans horse soring-the practice of intentionally hurting a horse's legs or hooves to produce a "high-stepping gait"- according to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the final version of a rule Friday that will help protect horses from the practice of soring. Soring is the intentional infliction of pain on horses' feet ...

USDA's efforts to tighten enforcement of the Horse Protection Act began a new chapter this week with the withdrawal of a previous rulemaking, an action it says was supported by comments on a proposed ...

The horse soring regulation currently held up by the Trump administration would essentially ban the cruel practice Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

Earlier this month, I drove to Murfreesboro to speak at the USDA's public forum on new proposals for rules against horse soring. Some of the comments made by the horse trainers were shocking. I couldn ...

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is considering giving a grant to the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association for a study in what walking horse industry activists contend ...

The moment Tawnee Preisner saw the scarred and wounded Tennessee walking horse at a Cookeville auction, she knew she had to act. If she didn't, the stallion could end up going to slaughter. Preisner, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives has moved to ban horse "soring," a painful modification to a horse's legs or hooves that animal advocates decry as particularly cruel. Now, it's up ...

WASHINGTON — A federal regulation completed in the waning days of the Obama administration to end the abusive practice of horse soring is on hold. Just one week before President Barack Obama left ...

A bill that would safeguard show horses from painful practices designed to heighten their crowd-pleasing high gaits sparked a lively debate Wednesday on Capitol Hill. A House Energy and Commerce ...