[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Wild horses.....
- From: "Carolyn" <marhaven@xxxxxxx>
- To: <d_fritsche@xxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:50:57 -0700
There CAN be an upside to this though. We have personally helped adopt and
tame
and train three of those wild horses within our family circle and one friend.
An experience!!! They are incredibly wild...........and wily. <G>
It is very difficult however to find one that is over five years of age that
doesn't have
some serious problems with their hooves. Skinny and cut up can be
resolved........but
as Dave said.....they live a very harsh life, and it wears on their legs and
feet over time.
Some of the damage can be very serious.
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxx
www.marhaven.com
----- Original Message -----
From: David Fritsche To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
About two miles north of us is a large holding facility for wild horses. I
think it is run by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). It is regularly
filled with horses that have been rounded up from the range and are there
for treatment, adoption and disposal. A friend, our vet, had the contract
from BLM to care for the horses for many years. He explained that BLM does
counts of the herds from the air and inevitably the numbers increase
dramatically each year, so in order to keep them from over grazing which
would devastate the ranchers (this is open range country) and the herds,
they have to reduce the herds. So, they round them up and send them to the
Palomino Valley facility.
Sometimes I can hardly go by it without deep emotions. There are a number of
holding pens, several acres in size, for the diseased and decrepit horses.
They are skinny, cut up and in bad shape. They are not up for adoption until
they are treated, fed and their condition has vastly improved. (For all you
nature lovers out there <GO>, Mother Nature is not very kind to these
animals.) Most of them never see the adoption pens. And, those that do are
so numerous that only a small portion will be adopted. A large portion of
these horses are destined for slaughter.
Sad as it seems, I do recognize that we as a culture have moved far away
from our agricultural roots where the farm animal was a crop, destined for
practical use in the food chain. I am not good at manning the slaughter, but
I do recognize that it is an inevitable consequence of animal management.
I agree with Tari - YUCKO, but what options are there????
Dave
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