The Draft EA for resource enforcement actions in the Calico Complex suggests that he’d have to be looking over his shoulder every day, not just during roundups (page 25 in the pdf): “BLM does euthanize old, sick or lame animals on the range when such animals have been identified. This occurs on an on-going basis and is not limited to wild horse gathers.”
RELATED: ‘Hopeless’ Seen at Water Tanks.
Western Horse Watchers Association 