Every year, hundreds of pets are surrendered to RSPCA South Australia and other animal welfare and rescue organisations by people who cannot find rental propert
A whistle-blower on-board Australian sheep shipments has exposed the horrific consequences of sending animals from an Adelaide winter to the Middle East’s summer.
In the so-called 'sport' of duck shooting, one party has fun and the other dies. Worse yet, 40% of waterbirds are wounded, not killed outright, by shotgun pellets.
A total of 58 horses have now died in South Australian and Victorian jumps races since 2009, with horses in jumps races nearly 19 times more likely to die than those in flat races.
As a horror jumps racing season continues, Surface to Air has today died as a result of competing in the 3280m distance hurdle at Murray Bridge, the second horse in South Australia this year.
Some people (usually those who profit from jumps racing) would like us to believe that horses love to jump. Again, this is incorrect.
Horses only jump obstacles at full gallop because they are forc...
Some people believe horses are made for jumping. An understanding of their physiology makes it clear that they are not. Horses have:
Laterally placed eyes which restricts forward vision and their...
A huge drop in crowd numbers attending the Monday race meeting at the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival points to a huge lack of public support for jumps races.
Following the devastating death of Whee...
RSPCA South Australia would like to clarify that yesterday’s death of jumps racing horse Wheeler Fortune was the fourth death at Oakbank in the last six years.
In 2014, Black Moon was euthanised ...
A jumps racing tragedy in full view of hundreds of spectators has marred Oakbank’s Easter Racing Carnival.
Wheeler Fortune fell during the running of the Somerled Hurdle race of nearly three kilo...
Parliamentary Jumps Racing Inquiry fails to deliver ban
But industry on notice with recommendations targeting transparency and welfare
A parliamentary select committee has agreed to allow jump...