Friday, January 27, 2012

Happy Trails: Woman Explains Why She Came to Hollywood on Horseback

http://laist.com/2012/01/26/woman_rides_horse_through_hollywood.php

Happy Trails: Woman Explains Why She Came to Hollywood on Horseback


Photo by Emma Gallegos/LAist

Hollywood has always loved a good story about a horseback journey, and that's been true for Karin Hauenstein, who I caught riding down Sunset Boulevard through traffic on Tuesday.

She e-mailed LAist to let us know about her long journey from the Central Coast to Hollywood with her three horses Glory, Coley and Smoke.

Hauenstein is a professional horse behaviorist who lives about 65 miles north of Santa Barbara, but she is also an activist. She had planned on taking a long horseback journey to advocate against the inhumane treatment of horses and horse slaughter this year, but she had to leave ahead of schedule after President Obama signed an appropriations bill this fall that funded the USDA to certify U.S. horse meat for human consumption and sale in other countries.

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