Sound Horse Organization
was founded in 1997 in reaction to the soring and abuse rampant in the Tennessee Walking Horse Show World. The primary purpose then and now is to educate horse owners as to the wide scope and methods of abuse.
Though the abuse is not limited to the Walking Horse industry, it was in this industry where it began and grew to such horrific proportions, the Horse Protection Act had to be enacted into Federal Law in 1970. These abuses have spread to include all shows, fairs, sales, exhibitions, etc...which involve all breeds of horses.
SHO members have booths at shows, fairs, and expos to explain the abuse and to offer helpful advice as to how to stop the practice of soring.
SHO supports Sound Horse Shows affiliated with FOSH, NWHA, etc...(shows with no chemical or mechanical soring with their name and financial sponsorships.
SHO rescues abused horse of all breeds (along with other animals) and places them in loving, caring homes.
SHO donates funds to, and allies itself with other groups such as FOSH, ASPCA, and AHDF, who have proven their championship for the welfare of horses.
SHO donates funds to other horse welfare groups such as NCERL, Wild Horse Sanctuary, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, who work to provide homes for abused, starved, lame, aged, or damaged horses who are abandoned when their usefulness to their owner is over sometimes being sold for slaughter.

This website is only the "tip of the iceberg" of the abuse of horses.
40,000 foals from PMU farm mares are slaughtered each year with their meat going to foreign countries. Horses are rounded up by the BLM from public lands, sold at auction, where some continue on to slaughter.
Aside from the work our members undertake with education to the public, the members of SHO write letters, fax, and e-mail to local and federal legislators, providing them with information and encouragement to introduce or pass bills that will fund and enforce the HPA, to stop the abuse of all kinds to all breeds.

SHO has no paid employees - all are volunteers.
SHO finances are open for all to see with a written request for same.
SHO relies completely on the generosity of its members.
SHO Annual Online Auction
Sale of SHO items from our Sound Horse Store

And particularly those who read our literature and visit this site. Donations of items to our online store and annual auction are tax-deductible!

If you own horses or just love horses, won't you please join us in our effort?