World Animal News, Social Compassion and Jane UnChained would like to thank everyone who supported our collaborative efforts by attending and generously donating to our Champions For Change soiree last week.

It was a wonderful night of fun as animal advocates came together to support lawmakers and newsbreakers in animal welfare and to honor the heroes who go above and beyond to save and protect our species worldwide.

We also wanted to thank our amazing honorees, Marc Ching, Anita Krajnc, Diane Warren, former Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa and John Salley for attending our charity event and accepting your well-deserved awards, it is an absolute honor to dedicate the night to your hard work and dedication to animal welfare.

We would like to say a very special “Thank You” to our sponsors: Charity Motors, V-Dog and Finca Bellavista. Our food vendors, gift bag donors, DJ and volunteers were absolutely incredible and significantly helped to make the evening very special.

The horses in this picture as well as many more of the Virginia Range horse herd in Nevada are currently in need of placement.

These horses are managed by the Nevada Department of Agriculture and the cooperative efforts of the department and various qualified non-profit horse groups.

The department manages the horses using fertility control, however some of the horses spread out into the outskirts of urban areas and onto busy highways. Those that present a clear and continuing danger to motorists, and that return to busy areas after relocation attempts, do have to be removed.

Per state law the Department is permitted to work with qualified non-profits to facilitate the proper and humane placement of the horses that have been picked up. State law also requires the Department to dispose of any horses that are not placed within a proscribed time at the livestock sale. Therefore every effort is being made by all parties to get these horses placed.

This means that horses that do to get placed will end up being sold to kill buyers and sent to slaughter.

Adoption fees typically are $125.00. Adjustments can be made for out of state adopters who have to pay for Coggins and health certificates for interstate travel.

For more information please contact Chris Senko via Email or telephone 775-847-7114.

To see a full list of horses available for adoption and how to adopt, please CLICK HERE.

“These are wild mustangs, and extreme caution needs to be in place, some of these horses are older and can and will be extremely dangerous to novice horse people. I do not believe in adopting wild mustangs and feel they should be left in the wild! Put up fences, give them a water source far from the roads and human intervention, let them roam free. These are a symbol of the old west. They should be respected and cared for from a distance. If someone can adopt the whole herd and relocate them to 10,000 acres or more and keep the herd in tack, that would be the best possible outcome for these wild horses”

-Lisa Brown, 399 horse wrangler in the Teamster union for film.

On September 14th 2016, Congressman Alcee L. Hastings hosted a briefing in Washington D.C. to pass crucial legislation in order to end the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China and across Asia.

Joining Hastings at the briefing were; Dr. Peter Li, China Policy Advisor at Humane Society International and Associate Professor at East Asian Politics of the University of Houston-Downton, Andrea Gung, Executive Director and Founder of Duo Duo – Compassion Beyond Borders, Marc Ching, Founder of the Animal Hope & Wellness Foundation, and Valarie Ianniello, Director of Operations of the Animal Hope & Wellness Foundation, as well as Lisa Vanderpump and John Sessa of The Vanderpump Dog Foundation.

The group of advocates are fighting hard to end the horrific dog meat industry. They presented House Resolution 752 to end China’s dog meat festival to a room full of lawmakers and animal advocates.

Following the presentation, Marc Ching, Valarie Ianniello, Katie Cleary and attorney Nick Sackett, held a meeting with congressman Hastings in D.C. to discuss the U.S. Anti-Dog & Cat meat bill that they are currently working on, presented by the legislative group, Social Compassion in Legislation.