These beautiful, gentle horses were torn from their legal, Congressionally designated range by the BLM over the protestations of many Wyoming citizens.
What's ahead for them now? For the lucky few, adoption by people who will support them in one of the sanctuaries where they can live as close to the wild as possible. Others will be adopted by people who - HOPEFULLY! - will train them into the wonderful personal horses that they can be. They won't be wild, but they will be loved.
For the unlucky, Long Term Holding by the BLM. They will spend the rest of their lives in BLM Prison - sterilized, separated by gender, all under the tender mercies of the BLM on land from which the public is forever barred. They will disappear into the void, never to be heard from or accounted for again.
For the really unlucky - such as the sale authority horses - who can be sold "without limitation" (that means sold to anyone) the future holds nothing but a long, terrifying trip to a Mexican slaughter plant unless advocates can raise enough money/adopters to support them, and there are 255 of these innocent creatures. Don't they deserve more than a Mexican slaughter house? There is a killer buyer in Texas already trying to get them.
If you know of a place where these horses can go and be safe, PLEASE, contact Carol Walker at the links below. There is a link in this post where you can see pictures of these majestic horses.
We CAN save our precious wild horses IF we work together!
What's ahead for them now? For the lucky few, adoption by people who will support them in one of the sanctuaries where they can live as close to the wild as possible. Others will be adopted by people who - HOPEFULLY! - will train them into the wonderful personal horses that they can be. They won't be wild, but they will be loved.
For the unlucky, Long Term Holding by the BLM. They will spend the rest of their lives in BLM Prison - sterilized, separated by gender, all under the tender mercies of the BLM on land from which the public is forever barred. They will disappear into the void, never to be heard from or accounted for again.
For the really unlucky - such as the sale authority horses - who can be sold "without limitation" (that means sold to anyone) the future holds nothing but a long, terrifying trip to a Mexican slaughter plant unless advocates can raise enough money/adopters to support them, and there are 255 of these innocent creatures. Don't they deserve more than a Mexican slaughter house? There is a killer buyer in Texas already trying to get them.
If you know of a place where these horses can go and be safe, PLEASE, contact Carol Walker at the links below. There is a link in this post where you can see pictures of these majestic horses.
We CAN save our precious wild horses IF we work together!
They are all so beautiful This is such a tragedy. Unfortunately, I see no end in sight for these horses. I'm wondering if the powers that be in Washington even know or care what's going on.
ReplyDeleteI think what advocates have to do is, working together, get all the horses onto sanctuaries as we're trying to do with these. There are quite a few sanctuaries and people acquiring land as we speak. Hopefully, we can save these for now.
ReplyDeleteThere are lawsuits - including the one Grass Roots Horse is sponsoring - and others. The government is not going to do anything, except POSSIBLY defund the BLM. These new Republicans should be happy to do THAT!
It's really not as bleak as it might be, but I think the horses' time on PUBLIC LAND is running out. If we work together, we CAN give many of them a good life though. And, on sanctuaries they will be SAFE - something that will never happen on public land. Unfortunately, the powers that be in DC DO know what's going on, and they aren't going to lift a finger to stop it.
This is about FAR more than horses. It's about our own Department of the Interior selling water, mining, etc. rights out from under Americans so companies in the Middle East and China can destroy our West in the quest for minerals. It's frightening enough for me in Indiana. If I lived in Nevada especially, I'd be fighting with all my might. Unfortunately, they are so far behind the times, they don't even realize that the horses and their advocates are NOT the enemy.