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HOPE stands for HOrses Helping PEople and is an equine-assisted therapy facility located in Alachua County.
Read More »HOPE Organization Tries To Help People Get Better With Giant Helpers — Horses
Marion County Veterinary Center Offers Acupuncture For Horses
A new veterinarian center in Ocala is offering acupuncture for horses to treat problems like muscle pain and respiratory issues.
Read More »FDOH On Alert For Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Recent surveillance has the Florida Department of Health on alert for mosquito-borne viruses in Alachua County.
Read More »How Gainesville’s Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses Has Become A National Organization
Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses takes its therapy animals, miniature horses, to hospitals and hospices, disaster areas and locations of traumatic events, to help ease suffering.
Read More »Micanopy Farm Seeks Foster Homes For Horses
After an unusually stormy start to the Florida summer, the Horse Protection Association of Florida is seeking temporary foster homes for some of the horses until their flooded pastures dry up.
Read More »Untold Florida: Why U.S. 441 Across Paynes Prairie Is Still Just One Lane
As rainy season is fast approaching, the two outside lanes on 441 beside Paynes Prairie will remain closed until sustained dry weather arrives.
Read More »Levy County Commission Denies Exotic Animal Application
The Levy County Planning Commission unanimously voted down an application for a special exception permit to allow the keeping, breeding and raising of exotic animals near Williston, Florida.
Read More »Official Urge Precautions Amid Eastern Equine Encephalitis Outbreak in Levy County
An outbreak of Eastern Equine Encephalitis has been reported in Levy County where a farm lost all of its chickens and emus last week.
Read More »Florida Considers Increasing Penalty For Bee Colony Theft, But Will It Help?
A Florida Senate bill would raise the penalty for each stolen hive from $5,000 to $10,000. In some parts of the state, beekeepers had more than $100,000 worth of hives stolen.
Read More »Lions, Tigers and Barry, Oh My: Conservation Co-Founder Lives for His Animals
Barry Janks, 62, co-founder of Carson Springs Wildlife Conservation Foundation, calls his animals his children. While he doesn't have any actual kids of his own, Janks hopes to one day pass on the organization to someone who loves animals as much as he does.
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