Animal Rescue
My holiday wish: help animals in Greg’s memory
This holiday season, I hope you’ll take the opportunity to help animals with a contribution to the Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund. The Fund supports organizations and programs that were dear to both Greg and me, and is also helping to shape these programs. Here are some 2019 highlights for the Fund and its partners: 1. The…
Read MoreThree Heartwarming Stories from 2019
In 2019, the Greg Fund rescued many animals in partnership with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Animal Place, Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, and White Coat Waste Project among others. Today, I want to share with you just three of the most heartwarming stories from this year. Elizabeth/Colley: In early March, I spent two…
Read More#GivingTuesday for Horses
This #GivingTuesday December 3, please help horses with a donation to the Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund. I am proud to share five ways this Fund has worked for horses worldwide in 2019, through partnership with PETA–People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: 1) The U.S. mainstream media is catching up with PETA on the need to end horse racing cruelty. The L.A. Times November…
Read MoreBridget Moloney hasn’t died in vain
This horse was Bridget Moloney, who earned $389,748 in almost six years of racing at West Virginia’s Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort and other U.S. tracks. After her final race on September 25, 2019, she was “vanned off,” which usually means that a horse was seriously injured. And then, as revealed by PETA’s Campaign to End…
Read MoreYou Have Always Been My Inspiration
On this fourth anniversary of Greg’s death, I came to Glasgow to visit the Linda McCartney Retrospective photo exhibition. I came to be freshly inspired by this memorial to one of the best-known modern animal rights activists — and to be inspired by the heart behind the memorial, her surviving husband Sir Paul McCartney, who…
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