Horse News
Wild Horses in Nevada and the BLM
Wild Horses are being removed in Nevada off public lands by the BLM in record numbers, they are rounded up by helicopter and herded to pins to be transported to holding pins, here they will either be moved to a private ranches or remain at state facilities for the rest of their lives. The Wild Horse known as wild Mustangs have lived off this land back as far as anyone knows, horses helped our settlers in every fashion of live from transportation to farming well before the automobile was ever invented. Now in Nevada they are seen more as a nuisance to most farmers since cows are now being placed on BLM land. The BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management, Since 1971 the BLM has removed over 270,000 horses from land that was designated for the wild horses to live on, they have also taken away more than 20 million acres of wild horse habitat on public land that was protected by Congress because it was necessary to sustain an existing herd or herds of wild horses and burros and is devoted principally to their welfare. According to some sources the BLM is fencing off reservoirs and saying that there is insufficient water to maintain wild horses, its hard to find a creek in this area so usually there is either a reservior or a standing water hole. Wild Horses only make up .004625 of the 8,000,000 head of livestock grazing on BLM land which is public lands. I myself was pretty unaware like a lot of citizens until I received the email below, would you please go and look at the info contained on the links and see for yourself. You can go here to read all the info about adoption horses. The email below is from one of our readers.
Aunt Glo, I had wanted to write an article about Nevada's wild horses, but I don't think it can wait for me to research and put together. The Reason being that even though they are on our state quarter, they are being exterminated by the thousands. There are wild horse "round-ups" several times a year in Nevada. These are mentioned on the news here, along with a phone number to call to adopt a horse. This makes everyone have a warm and fuzzy feeling, thinking these horses will get a good home, but that's not what happens. More often than not, the horses are not for adoption. Believe me; I had called back when Tommy still had a corral. The Nevada Bureau of Land Management had been misleading people for years, but now the truth is coming out. A large number of these horses are being euthanized.
Basically, the horses are a nuisance, especially if cattle are involved, but there are still resources for both. I don't get it. Even if there really isn't enough food and/or water why nature can’t takes its course and allow the strongest to survive? You don't see documentaries about Africa showing hippo round-ups when water is scarce, or lion round-ups when the Wild beasts aren't migrating.
Healthy herds are even being removed. Helicopters are being used to round them up, running strong horses until they die from broken limbs trying to escape. It's sad. I'm not a tree hugger who would save a frog at the risk of human beings. I just haven't seen enough evidence for this to make sense. On the news tonight I just heard about a plan to remove 25,000 more horses. I went on-line to find that article, but only found the attached.
I feel this is very important for all horse lovers and animal lovers in general. Please see if Wayland can post any of the below articles. The second one is actually a link to the subject where several articles can be found.
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11285225
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/Category.asp?c=63593
Thanks and love you, Tammy
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A Letter from Mavis's Mom
During my years of owning horses I have always had dogs, well around 1993 my wife and I decided to get a Great Dane puppy, we found a breeder and picked out a female her name would be Bandy. We bought her when she was six weeks old and raised her till the great age of thirteen which is a very old age for a Great Dane. When Brandy got about Three years old we decided to breed her to have a litter of puppies, man did we ever she had a litter of fifteen puppies, two died leaving us with thirteen pups. I advertized the puppies in the local paper as well as the state paper and sold all of them in about a month. Brandy helped raise my kids and was one sweet girl. We have had great Danes ever since getting her and more than likely will always keep one or two around because their temperament for such a big dog is like a gentle giant. To my surprise I checked the mail last week to find a letter from a nice Lady that I had sold one of Brandy’s puppies too. It was so touching I told her that I had to share it with every one of our friends, readers and guest. I hope you find this as touching as I did!!
Dear Mr. Moody, I am writing to you because I believe that I purchased a Great Dane puppy from you in the fall of 1996. At the time, we were living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I had you ship her to me by the way of air travel. Do you remember that? She was a beautiful black puppy! I lost your contact information as we have moved twice in the last 13 years so I do hope you are the same person. I remember that you were from Monck’s corner so I looked up names in that location and found yours. Mavis was the most wonderful dog! She loved everyone and everything! She got along with cats and all kinda dogs. She was actually a big baby! We would sometimes foster little puppies for the local SPCA and she would hide from them in the bedroom! She loved to lie on the sofa and her favorite thing in the world was to steal a loaf of bread off the counter! Once, she even got away with a pork roast. In 2006, (when she was ten years old) she had surgery for a tumor in her belly. They actually ended up having to saw open her pelvis to remove it. She spent about a week at the hospital and then another month or so recuperating at home, but once she was fully healed she was back to her old tricks! This past summer we found out she had bone cancer in her right front leg. The doctors told us the only treatment option would be amputation but due to her size and age, they didn’t think she would survive the surgery. We brought her home and cooked homemade meals for her, gave her lots of love and kept her as comfortable as possible. Despite a bit of a limp, she still wanted to take the daily walk up the hill of our street. She was such a trooper! 2 weeks ago, on one of our walks, she fell down in a neighbor’s yard and almost couldn’t get back up. She spent that night with her head in my lap, looking up at me, as if to say, “I think that was my last walk, Mom.“ Sadly, it was. Two days later, we took her to the vet and had her put to sleep. She had just turned thirteen on June 9th. I just wanted you to know that she was such a wonderful companion and to thank you for giving us the opportunity to have her in our lives. We loved her and miss her very much. I’ve enclosed a picture of her. It was taken about two weeks before she died. Sincerely, Linda Knezovich My First Horse Ride
I can remember when I was a little kid my father had a horse and we would go out to where he kept him to feed him and check on him, he kept him about ten minutes from our house so we couldn’t just go outside to see him that made it a lot harder for me to have the confidence to be around such a big animal. I was too little to climb on myself so my father helped me up onto the horse, once on I couldn’t reach my feet to the stirrups so I just got me a good handful of the Saddlehorn to hold on with.
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