Equine Delusions: The Advocates Think They’re the Good Guys

They’re poisoning the mares with PZP and praying for the older horses to die.

They’re skewing the sex ratios in favor of females.

They’re inflicting injuries and infections.

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They’re driving the breeding populations into the single digits.

They don’t care about genetic diversity.

They want the ranchers to win.

Yet they write columns and opinion pieces painting themselves as disciples of Velma.

Consider the article starting on page 15 of the August edition of Horse Tales.

It was written by a trained PZP darter and close supporter of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.

The column ends with a remark about wild horses being mistreated and removed from their homes by the very people put in place to protect them.

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Is she talking about the BLM or herself and fellow travelers?

RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.

Virginia Range Darting Update for August 2024

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, reported today that 141 mares received 141 doses of PZP during the month, 27 given as primers and 114 as boosters.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 9,767 doses of the pesticide into 2,058 mares, for an average of 4.7 doses per mare.

Since the beginning of the year, 154 foals have been born and 44 died.

The current population is thought to be 3,515, with 302 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,548 with 311 horses listed as missing in July.

The population was 3,521 with 302 horses listed as missing in June and 3,502 with 310 horses listed as missing in May.

The loss of 24 wild horses in the Sunny Hills fiasco was not discussed.

The Year 6 agreement with NDA has not been posted to the darting resources page.

The Year 5 summary has not been posted to the monthly reports page.

A goal for September is to maximize booster treatments so the herd will continue to shrink and to complete the training of newly certified darters.

Not discussed in the August update:

  • Long-term population goal
  • Number of viable mares
  • Size of breeding population
  • Loss of genetic diversity
  • Changes in death rate and sex ratio
  • Unlawful use of pesticides

The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for July 2024.

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Foal-Free Friday, Filling the Vacuum Edition

In its flagship darting program on the Virginia Range, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is sterilizing the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks their immune systems into attacking their ovaries.

As wild horse numbers go down, another species is moving in to fill the void.

Are you surprised by this?

The advocates talk about cherished/beloved/innocent/treasured/iconic/majestic wild horses but their actions tell you it’s the ranchers they love.

Why are you still giving them money?

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, He Said – She Said Edition.

Titus Peddles Overpopulation Narrative, Pesticides for Horses

The August 25 guest column in the Las Vegas Sun reads like an advertisement for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its pest control services.

Did she write it or just sign it?

The underlying belief is that there are too many wild horses in the western U.S. and they need to be removed.  Humanely, of course.

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The statement about abuse during the Blue Wing roundup is over the top.

CAAWH released the video not to help wild horses but to draw attention to itself and its ruinous darting programs.

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Of interest to its opponents is the remark about the cost of fertility control, “$1,320 for five years of treatment compared to around $48,000 for life in long-term holding.”

Why did they say five years?  Why not for life?

Because the mares don’t recover after five years of treatment.  They’re sterile.

The advocates won’t admit it, preferring to say the mares are self-boosting, a result that can’t be achieved with helicopters and wranglers.

RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.

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Wild Horse Sterilization to Boost Colorado Tourism?

That’s according to BLM State Director Doug Vilsack.

He wants to make the state’s wild horse program an object of celebration, not by allowing the animals to flourish in their lawful homes, but by shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.

Once herd numbers have been stabilized at appropriate levels, “then I think it’s going to get fun because we can sit down and think about, you know, what else can we do now that we have sustainable populations, how can we work on tourism opportunities for people to come see these horses?  That would be a fantastic place to get to, to really be sitting down and thinking about how we can celebrate the wild horses and get beyond some of the controversy that we’ve seen when we do these gathers,” he told a reporter with The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Only the ranchers, not mentioned in the August 25 article, will be celebrating.

A keyword search of the story yielded these results:

  • Allotment – No occurrences
  • Grazing – 0
  • AUM – 0
  • Forage – 0
  • Livestock – 0
  • Horse/horses – 42
  • Fertility control/controls – 13
  • AML – 5
  • Adoption/adoptions – 2
  • Sanctuaries – 1

No bias here, no attempt to hide the truth.

The writer and his employer are not shills for the public-lands ranchers.

The herds are managed exactly as Velma and the 92nd Congress intended.

Carson City Protest Was a Scam!

The advocates, represented by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and Wild Horse Connection, wanted you to think they were the good guys, victims, and the NDA and its wranglers were the bad guys for removing 24 Virginia Range mustangs from a construction site in Reno.

This is nonsense.  Both sides, working together since 2019 to exterminate the herd, knew what would happen if the rescue failed.

The advocacy groups rank among the lowest and sleaziest of the nonprofits.

RELATED: Advocates Protest Virginia Range Roundup in Carson City.

Google Search Results Leave Users Hanging

Here’s what you’ll see today if you type in “wild mustangs” and set the time interval to the past 24 hours:

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Which one of these clauses best completes the sentence?

a.) Help the ranchers win

b.) Get rid of the horses with pesticides

c.) Convince the bureaucrats that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to motorized removal

d.) All of the above

e.) None of the above

The correct answer is D, All of the above.

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Beware of the wild horse advocates.

Advocates Knew NDA Would Remove Sunny Hills Wild Horses

The agency’s director indicates at 1:36 in this report that “Our cooperator [Wild Horse Connection] was aware that if they were unsuccessful in removing the horses the NDA would remove the horses.”

The advocates want you to think they were victims not villains, even though they’ve been trying to get rid of the horses since 2019.

Wild Horse Connection works hand-in-hand with the other cooperator, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, to eradicate the Virginia Range herd.

RELATED: Boulders, Not Advocates, Cause of Sunny Hills Roundup?

BLM Won’t Let Advocates Haul Water to Muddy Creek Horses?

So says the writer of an August 14 letter to The Salt Lake Tribune.

More horses have been seen near the dried-up pond because they don’t have the strength to make it to the next water source.

To her credit, she did not call for greater use of pesticides to solve the problem, as most advocates do, some of whom landed 24 Virginia Range mustangs in the Carson City prison last week in their failed attempt to rescue them from a construction site.

We still don’t know if the pond was on public or private land, if it was dug by livestock operators, and how it is filled.

RELATED: BLM Dispatches Mom-Baby Pair at Muddy Creek.

WHB Manual Explains Current Management Practices

Apparently, the bureaucrats have taken matters into their own hands, ignoring the will of the people.  (It’s not unprecedented, look at the southern border.)

According to the statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death.

According to the manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death.

An example of unauthorized capture would be person who took a wild horse or burro off the public lands for his personal use or profit.

Unauthorized harassment might correspond to persons who threw rock at them or chased them with ATVs.

The Jakes Valley shootings would be an example of unauthorized death.

Refer to any roundup or darting program for examples of authorized capture, branding, harassment and death.

Authorized by the bureaucrats, that is, not the American people.

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Where Is Sunny Hills Ranchos?

The construction site is at the north end of Rio Wrangler Parkway in southeast Reno, on the western slope of the Virginia Range.

Of the 24 animals now at NNCC, the stallions will likely be gelded, the mares may already be ruined (by PZP), and the foals, if any, may have faulty immune systems.

Other than that, the advocates did a fine job caring for the horses.

RELATED: Advocates Bungle Sunny Hills Rescue, 24 Horses Lose Freedom.

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Lake Havasu Roundup Legit?

The DNA published last week asserts that a 2008 EA fully covers bait trap removal set to begin this week.

For that to be true, the document must have a useful life of at least 16 years.

Some advocates have argued that a ten-year life, typical for wild horse and burro environmental assessments, is too long.

The EA was not copied to the project folder but Western Horse Watchers sent an email this morning asking for that.

RELATED: Lake Havasu DNA Issued, Not Open for Public Review.