Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Check out the photo in this article of mountain biker Jeremy Hottinger going airborne at Wild Horse Monument near Vantage, WA. The image was captured by freelance photographer Ben Herndon. The venue is an unfinished sculpture on top of a ridge featuring wild mustangs.
The sculpture appears in the following video.
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Virginia Range band, somewhere along Clean Water Way in Sparks, NV. North of Hidden Valley. Stallion in foreground.
H/T Dr. Jennifer Jewell, PhD.
Some of them are a bit furry, not what you’d expect to see in mid summer. Those scenes may have been filmed earlier in the year.
H/T CBS Sunday Morning.
BLM announced on 08/02/18 that it would be holding a wild horse and burro sale event at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds August 24 – 25. Fifty animals will be available for purchase, cash and carry.
Adoption is not the preferred method nowadays?
Refer to the news release for directions. Availability of WHB posters unknown.
All can be forgiven…until she takes your horse.
No, it doesn’t. It benefits the government serfs who fatten their cattle on public lands at fire-sale prices. Fewer horses on the range means more forage for livestock. Keep the gravy train going, more cattlemen sucking the sugar teat.
The text posted with the video is propaganda, typical for the kooks at Protect the Harvest, who said earlier this year the Virginia Range had been decimated by wild horses. (Go to the Index, scroll down to Virginia Range and look at the photos.)
Yep, female genital mutilation is good. Nice job PTH. Allahu Akbar.
Note the collaboration of BLM, Zoetis and Priefert on the project.
Researchers at Colorado State University will help the BLM perfect a rarely used sterilization procedure, known as ovariectomy via colpotomy, for removing a mare’s ovaries, according to a report dated 08/03/18 in the Coloradoan. If approved, the study will begin in October.
Public acceptance of fertility control was a first step. Now the focus is fertility prevention.
Who benefits? Why would the BLM engage in such barbaric practices?
It’s not about reducing costs of the WHB program. There are no plans to close departments, sell buildings and lay people off if the research is ‘successful.’
The move is a payoff to the livestock industry, with whom the BLM has been aligned for decades. Ranchers look at the horses and burros as pests, consuming forage that belongs to them—on lands sent aside for the horses and burros. The WHB Act, amended several times in their favor, has been a pain in their backside since 1971.
Eighty percent of Americans want these animals protected and preserved. But it doesn’t matter, because the BLM doesn’t answer to the voters.
Two hundred mares, gathered from the range, will be placed in the program. Of the 100 mares to be spayed, 30 will be returned to the range and 70 will go to adoption, some of whom may appear in the demonic Wild Spayed Filly Futurity.
Religion and politics, oh my! H/T Michael Voris and the folks at Church Militant.
See also this post by Ann Barnhardt, dated 07/29/18.
If Pam Rutherford filmed it, it’s going to be good. Features some Virginia Range mustangs.
Mustangs adopted from BLM Oregon in 2015. Colt, left, born at ranch. Mom (right) and filly (center) appeared in the wild horse loading video at this post. Mom was pregnant when captured. Filmed 08/02/18.
Gentling technique: Patience. No strings, no ropes, no confined spaces, no ‘respect my space,’ no ‘show that horse who’s boss.’
As for the colt, no imprinting and no weaning. Hands off for the first three months to let mom teach baby how to be a horse.
“These wild and free-roaming horses, over years and generations, have reverted to their wild state, especially through their offspring who have never known anything other than wild.”
Part of the Kisatchie National Forest. Go to this FB page for the latest. More info at the Pegasus Equine Guardian Association blog.
Twelve minute video lecture on training methods by Rick Gore. WTWT.
As for your newly adopted mustang, the question is not how long before you can trust him, but how long before he can trust you.
Hand feeding not recommended. Filmed in West Virginia on the Hatfield McCoy Trails.
H/T Cheyenne Bullard.
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See the report posted today at Intermountain Farm & Ranch about the Red Desert gather, which may begin next week. The story addresses concerns about captured horses going to slaughter.
“Interested buyers are required to sign paperwork.”
No problems there. Barack Obama took an oath to uphold the Constitution (and his administration was lawless).
The article also indicates that Wyoming is home to more than 7,000 wild horses, but the Appropriate Management Level is 3,725 horses. Another case of misuse of figures.
The BLM spokesperson quoted in the article said research projects are underway that will help find more effective facility [sic] control methods, probably meaning fertility control methods, which is a code word for fertility prevention methods.
The report did not mention if AUM curtailment would be considered as a means of preventing overgrazing or if the grazing fee on public rangelands would be raised from $1.41 per AUM to $25 per AUM, in line with the costs of private ranching.
The government serfs are riding a gravy train and they know it. And who pays? Our wild horses and burros.
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Stallions can reproduce, geldings can’t, because they’ve been castrated. The procedure is not 100% effective.
There are no geldings in the wild, unless they escaped from their owners or were turned loose, or were selectively returned to the range after being rounded up and ‘processed’ by the managing agency.
In this example, the horse has a twig and berries, not a gelding.
History Repeating by the Propellerheads.
Wild horses in Placitas, NM, north of Albuquerque. Managing agency unknown.
H/T Kyla Wood.
