HSUS veterinarian expresses concerns over BLM's anesthesia protocols during wild horse castrations |
Newly gelded young horses being exercised by BLM wranglers at Fallon, Nevada facility in April |
More questions than answers plague Twin Peaks wild horse roundup |
- August 21st, 2010 4:25 pm
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The wild horse fatalities are starting to mount, as the Twin Peaks roundup relentlessly rolls on near Susanville, California, and so are the unanswered questions. Through Friday, August 20th, 760 horses have been helicopter-driven off their 798,000-acre Herd Management Area (HMA), and at least four of them are now dead as a direct result of having been chased and confined. |
The latest "mercy killing" occurred yesterday afternoon, when a just-captured two-week-old sorrel colt was euthanized after the attending veterinarian assessed his chances of survival "in the wild" to be slim. That's a strange comment, because this foal was obviously no longer "in the wild," but in the hands of people of questionable good will. Could they not have treated and saved him? Read more at www.examiner.com |
"From my earliest memories, I have loved horses with a longing beyond words." ~ Robert Vavra