The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has recently proposed 'EUTHANIZING" tens of thousands of our wild horses!
From website - theamericanwildhorse(.)com The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has recently proposed 'EUTHANIZING" tens of thousands of our wild horses -- once deemed 'America's National Heritage.' BLM has created it's own monster by rounding up thousands of wild horses instead of properly managing them on the designated herd management areas throughout millions and millions of acres in the Western United States.
These are the American people's public lands and OUR wild horses, not belonging to BLM, the overseers, but to YOU, the citizens of the United States.
We are asking concerned American citizens to CALL MONDAY MORNING, July 7, 2008, to express your concerns at this critical hour. PLEASE DON'T WAIT! THEIR LIVES COULD BE IN YOUR HANDS.
Secretary of the Interior Dick Kempthorne (202-208-3100)
Director of the Bureau of Land Management Jim Caswell (202-208-3801)
Save the American Wild Horses - Call the BLM
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Thank you for letting us know about this. These animals are a national treasure and need to be provided for and protected.
Fed-Up
They're not OUR horses
The horses are not on our lands but rather on government lands. You would have some measure of control were such lands State owned, but forget about federal lands.
Rumors at the local gun shop
Is that the BLM doesn't want an available food source - the fear being that if things get really rough, people might hunt them. In some countries, eating horse is not that unusual. We live in No. Nevada and we have some good populations of horse and this year our hills have stayed green with grasses longer than we have seen previously. If the BLM cannot manage even the wild horses, I suggest that it is the BLM that needs to go...not the horses. Wild animals don't necessarily have easy lives, and should there be fires, drought, they pay the price, no doubt. But that is nature. If you have never seen a hillside alive with mustang with manes flying....well, it is magnificent.
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Horses are magnificent animals,
The problem we have is that solutions to problems are dealt with emotionally. Those of us who own horses want to see them dealt with humanely. Ultimately, if allowed to breed indiscriminately, the horses would run out of feed and starve. A solution might be to round them up, spay or neuter enough to keep the breeding under control and turn them back out.
Recently animal lovers, operating on an emotional level, decided that excess horses should not be slaughtered for consumption, and the last slaughter facility in the U.S. was closed down. This didn't stop the slaughter of horses, as they are now being hauled to Mexico and Canada to be processed and sent to France to be consumed.
But the effect of this emotional decision, not only did not stop the practice, it caused a problem with people abandoning horses---just turning them out to let others deal with them. There are many horses that are dangerous, perhaps old, injured, and they had an economic value. Now they don't, and it costs a lot to have such an animal euthanised, it costs a lot for hay and hoof care, etc. so of course people will deal with their 'problem' by not dealing with it.
Horse slaughter should NEVER-EVER be...
a means of economic value. A lot of Canadians are fighting this practice as we did here. Your idea of a spay/neuter program is good, but slaughtering horses IS an emotional issue & should never be considered.
Horses are extremely intelligent & aware of what is happening to them & as scared sh*tless as any human-being going to slaughter would be. Watch the following videos if you dare & see if you feel the same afterward.
A spay/neuter program or humane euthanasia or dying of natural causes is better. Heck, ANYTHING would be better than this hell.
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING!!! Extremely GRAPHIC & Disturbing video! NOT SUITABLE for children!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywDvcIyBLqU
http://video.hsus.org/?fr_story=fe11cb93d7b39e3052052f438f53...
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000528
Fellow Oregonian.
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I agree slaughtering horses is an emotional issue--
We have horses and i have experienced the heartbreak when they get hurt or old and suffering and we must deal with it, and even humane euthanasia is not an easy thing for the horse or the owner. However I do believe in putting an end to suffering--no matter how hard it is to do.
Horse slaughter was for decades a means of economic value---and there is nothing we can do after the fact.
Amen Paulette
True..Soon everything we depend on for survival will be controlled by these jack-booted traitors. Can you feel the Revolution coming?
An interesting article on the subject
http://www.slate.com/id/2113580/
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I am sorry, but you are wrong on this subject
The reason the BLM rounds up the wild horses is to properly manage the herd. Herds of wild horses do get larger each year and devastate the grasslands. (a mare has a foal once a year, which grows the herd) Would you prefer to see the horses starve to death because of nothing to eat? If your thought is birth control for the horses, how are you going to achieve that with wild horses? The only option is to round them up!
In our area they round them up and offer them up for adoption, but unfortunately there are not enough people willing or able to properly care for a horse!
I think you are wrong. It
I think you are wrong. It would probably be MUCH cheaper, in the long run to buy hay and throw it out there. The horses should die natural deaths if not enough to feed them. It is sad, but that is how it works. They also may save this by asking people to go out and get them if they want to, at their own risk. AND if they happen to shoot one to EAT it, what is the problem there...they just want to sell the dead horses themselves, and should not take food nor revenue from the public. If the government owns land, sorry, but it is OUR land. We are the Government, tho we seem to be constantly told we are not, and need to fight to get it back.
Crickett, I don't mean this as a put-down--
I really do appreciate your posts and I know you are a real patriot *But* I think you are a product of the public school system and if you thought it through you couldn't think that way. When you say "It is sad, but that is how it works" about an animal dying a natural death---does that mean that you could stand by and watch a wild horse, or any animal die a slow death when injured or sick---just shrug and walk off and say "This is OK, it will die a natural death"? I think, as humans, we are required to do what we can to ease the suffering of fellow creatures.
It would not be "much cheaper to buy hay and just throw it out there", someone would have to be paid to haul the hay out---buy the equipment to do so, and all of our vast bureaucratic regulations would have to be complied with.
The BLM's function is to protect the natural resources on BLM lands.
I didn't read the language in the attachment to the bill, but I do know that the BLM horse roundups are done to protect the grasslands, the horses are put up for adoption, and those not adopted are fed and given routine veterinary care and do live out their lives and die a natural death, unless they are suffering.
Another thing to remember is that any organization, animal welfare, environmental, or health related relies on contributions from the public. It is to their advantage to exaggerate the situation to the sympathetic public. More funds come in that way---and remember that the CEO's of these organizations rely on your contributions to remain in their cushy jobs.
So I would question if the situation is as dire as they are saying.
As to Federal lands being OUR lands---consider that the lands were in split estate ownership of those hardy pioneers who settled the West before there was a Forest Service or a BLM. There are mining claims, water rights, forage rights etc. on these lands, and the USFS and BLM are to respect these ownerships.
This is a complex problem with no easy solution.
Yes, there is merit to what you say
and it is similar to culling elephant in some of the African countries. However, they are talking of doing this in areas where there has been no drought or lack of feed. They adoptions are not happening as frequently because people cannot afford the current feed prices. When we moved here we were paying $8 to $9 a bale for grass hay. That was not quite two years ago. Now the price is $15 - $18 and it is said it will be $22 by the end of the year. There has also been talk of exporting some of the horses to Mexico for consuption. And, no I can't give you a link for that, it is just what we've heard.
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On this subject and many
On this subject and many others we have bureaucracies completely out of control. They are supposed to be here to serve the people, to improve lives, to keep us safer. Ther do just the reverse.
The FDA, ATF, name any of them and you'll find corruption, waste and a deleterious effect on the people.
As far as the horses are concerned they've done 'roundups' for years..selling them for dogfood. They've destroyed some of the best genetics that horses ever carried. Even now I am striving to save the genetic pool of the Choctaw horse, only about 350 of them left. Fine horses with intelligence that just blows me away...and I've been 'in' horses all of my life...
With the recent successes of the Mustang Challenge and other things on tv the popularity of the mustang has increased 1000 fold. If they can hold off killing them just a bit longer.
Not only are they transportation, they could, in a great emergency be part of the food supply. Hate the thought, but I believe everyone can see where the government is going with our food supply.
There are no longer millions of horses running these millions of acres. Furthermore, these are OUR horses, running OUR acreage.
Wow
What ever happened to natural selection? What happened with animal populations when man wasn't involved? Natural selection. Leave em be. Just seems like to me BB has a problem with anything that is truly free.
Sure, they
want to kill them. They may be our last mode of transportation.
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"Obamney care," Nuff said.