Just want to keep everyone up to date with the EU regulations. This article concerns Canada, the feasibility of enforcing these regulations, and what may conceivably happen come July 31st. Nothing we haven't talked about, but good information for those who are wondering. The idea of horses bred and raised for Slaughter is touched on, as well as the subject of how these regulations will affect the general well being of horses, which we've also discussed. Horses possibly going to Slaughter cannot be given many drugs. This will bring up many issues. Strangles is touched upon, and it is just one example of what we will be dealing with in the fight to end Slaughter once and for all. How many horses will now struggle with pain and disease? Time will tell, as it has in the past how we will deal with this issue. Interesting reading.
http://www.defendhorsescanada.org/pdf/finaldisc100314.pdf
By RH2
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
One State at A Time...
This is a foreword we received about the Wyoming Governor signing legislation HB122, providing the option of horse processing to deal with abandoned horses. I feel there is hope that we can get this mess turned around.... Even if it is one State at a time.
For those of you who don't know, Dr. Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She is an awesome woman in more ways than one. You can read about her and her research here http://www.grandin.com/
Again my hat is off to the State of Wyoming.
For those of you who don't know, Dr. Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She is an awesome woman in more ways than one. You can read about her and her research here http://www.grandin.com/
Again my hat is off to the State of Wyoming.
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Contact:
Sue Wallis
307 680 8515 cell
307 685 8248 ranch
sue.wallis@unitedorgsofthehorse.org
Wyoming Governor signs landmark legislation providing the option of horse processing to deal with abandoned horses
The United Organizations of the Horse is working with Dr. Temple Grandin to implement an Equine Assurance Program to ensure meat quality and address animal welfare concerns
CHEYENNE - Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has signed HB 122-Disposal of livestock into law which provides the Wyoming Board of Livestock three options to deal with abandoned, estray (animals whose ownership cannot be determined), feral, or abused animals which come under their control. The first option is taking the animal to a public sale, which was the only alternative before passage of this legislation. Additional options provided are sending the animal to slaughter, or destroying the animal.
While the legislation applies to all classes of livestock, the need arose because of the current lack of a market for low-end horses that are small or are in poor condition. Since the closure of the last US horse slaughter plant in 2007, the only unusable horses that have any value whatsoever are those that are big enough, or healthy enough, to be worth the transportation costs to Canada or Mexico. This has resulted in a huge increase in abandoned and neglected horse cases in Wyoming, and across the nation. Wyoming has seen more than a tripling every year in these numbers, which has required emergency funding through the Governor since they are unable to recoup the cost of care and feeding by selling the horses.
If the Board of Livestock chooses the slaughter option they are required to provide the meat to Wyoming state institutions or nonprofit organizations at their cost. They are authorized to sell the meat to profit entities at market price. Meat intended for human use will be state inspected and used in Wyoming.
The United Organizations of the Horse is coordinating a working group that includes state agencies, private meat processing businesses, nonprofit relief organizations, Dr. Temple Grandin, veterinarians, and other experts to design a system for the processing of horses, and the efficient and practical use of valuable meat and byproducts. The product of this working group will be a pilot Equine Assurance Program which will be a model for other states to utilize to address animal welfare concerns, and ensure the humane handling, transportation, and processing of horses.
Sue Wallis
307 680 8515 cell
307 685 8248 ranch
sue.wallis@unitedorgsofthehorse.org
Wyoming Governor signs landmark legislation providing the option of horse processing to deal with abandoned horses
The United Organizations of the Horse is working with Dr. Temple Grandin to implement an Equine Assurance Program to ensure meat quality and address animal welfare concerns
CHEYENNE - Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has signed HB 122-Disposal of livestock into law which provides the Wyoming Board of Livestock three options to deal with abandoned, estray (animals whose ownership cannot be determined), feral, or abused animals which come under their control. The first option is taking the animal to a public sale, which was the only alternative before passage of this legislation. Additional options provided are sending the animal to slaughter, or destroying the animal.
While the legislation applies to all classes of livestock, the need arose because of the current lack of a market for low-end horses that are small or are in poor condition. Since the closure of the last US horse slaughter plant in 2007, the only unusable horses that have any value whatsoever are those that are big enough, or healthy enough, to be worth the transportation costs to Canada or Mexico. This has resulted in a huge increase in abandoned and neglected horse cases in Wyoming, and across the nation. Wyoming has seen more than a tripling every year in these numbers, which has required emergency funding through the Governor since they are unable to recoup the cost of care and feeding by selling the horses.
If the Board of Livestock chooses the slaughter option they are required to provide the meat to Wyoming state institutions or nonprofit organizations at their cost. They are authorized to sell the meat to profit entities at market price. Meat intended for human use will be state inspected and used in Wyoming.
The United Organizations of the Horse is coordinating a working group that includes state agencies, private meat processing businesses, nonprofit relief organizations, Dr. Temple Grandin, veterinarians, and other experts to design a system for the processing of horses, and the efficient and practical use of valuable meat and byproducts. The product of this working group will be a pilot Equine Assurance Program which will be a model for other states to utilize to address animal welfare concerns, and ensure the humane handling, transportation, and processing of horses.
Historical photo from Seattle's Pike Place Market that reminds us that horse meat was appreciated nation-wide during World War II as a delicious, healthy and high-quality meat that is 50% higher in protein, 40% lower in fat than beef.
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Horses for Humanity
The United Organizations will provide horse meat at their cost to Wyoming relief organizations for distribution to those in need. Once the roadblocks to federal inspection of horsemeat in the US can be lifted, the United Organizations of the Horse is planning to implement a partnership with national and international relief organizations to provide wholesome, healthy, humanely harvested horsemeat to the hungry.
Through this program horse owners have the option of donating a horse that would otherwise be disposed of. Owners are assured a quick, humane death for their animal, and the comfort of knowing that the meat is going to a good and useful purpose.
Through this program horse owners have the option of donating a horse that would otherwise be disposed of. Owners are assured a quick, humane death for their animal, and the comfort of knowing that the meat is going to a good and useful purpose.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Squirrel Season?????
Okay, I Admit to Slacking a Bit……
It’s spring, a wet cold spring, but after the winter I have been through, it’s welcome all the same. I have been busy trying to get things shaped up where I keep my privately owned pieces of American Cowboy Heritage in holding pens, cruelly pitching feed to them, cleaning up after them, washing blankets, hauling hay, bedding, riding, all those things dreamed up to keep horses from their free roaming natural destiny. No one will march for them. They are stuck with the open market and me. They actually have registration papers to prove which branch of “history” they came from.
Annywaaayssss, this was forwarded to me with the comment “hmmmm, looks like it’s squirrel season in the east”. Pretty much.
The rally in Las Vegas was less than successful.
Imagine that, the good taxpaying citizens of Nevada would rather have a tax revenue producing business of any kind on their public land than worry about 10,000 or 30,000 non productive feral mutt horses. The ability to be swayed by facts or practicality is a perhaps the most important characteristic required for membership in the *NAHSC. So in an attempt to find more of their kind they have opted for a change of venue. What can I say? It’s worked so far. The further you remove the CAUSE from people who actually know if a horse runs up a tree or down a hole at night to sleep, the better your chances of gaining warm chanting bodies.
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----- Forwarded Message ----
A Rally and Lobby Day for Mustangs and Burros
When: Thursday, March 25thTime: 1:00-3:00pm, Press conference and speakers at 1:30pm (Filmmaker/Advocate Ginger Kathrens, Author RT FItch and many more- including special guests to be announced)
Where: Lafayette Park (northside of Whitehouse, on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW). At 3:00pm protesters will march with sign to the BLM office at 1849 ‘C’ Street.
Plus Mustangs on the Hill II: On Friday morning we’ll gather and brief people for meetings with their Represenatives in meetings to save the mustangs. Please schedule an appointment with your Representatives for Thursday morning or Friday. (Morning briefing location TBD)
Why: BLM’s cruel and poor mismanagement is destroying a vital piece of the American west. The American public is standing up for our horses and burros- please join us in a “March for Mustangs”, rally and protest and schedule meetings with your Representatives for Thursday morning or Friday. More information here at the Cloud Foundation. Please consider joining the march.. Many of us have sent emails to Congress and the White House, but little action has resulted. Protests in Nevada have had little impact. Let's bring it to Washington.http://thecloudfoun%20dation.wordpress%20.com/2010/%2002/24/march-%20for-mustangs-%20dc-protest-%20mustangs-%20on-the-hill-%20ii/
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I didn’t go to the Cloud Foundation page.
I just don’t want too.
I read about Karen Sussman’s “Sanctuary”. I researched Dayton Hyde through well over twenty years of legal profiteering from “saving” breeding, and selling the offspring of the last chancers. I read about Jason Meduna playing with smoke and mirrors until it became obvious to even the blind mice, he was not the second coming of anything. I watched Ginger’s attempt to elevate horses to Born Free lion status. I have read the R.T. Fitch (a.k.a. Grey Mane) Harlequin romance fictional account of Christmas Eve in the BLM holding pen. I can’t take anymore “pink nylon bridle”, I can’t find words corny enough to describe how much I care or how much you should care crap. Actually they don’t care what you have to say as long as you send Paypal, check, or credit card donations. For now I wish they would just pick a spelling for representative/represenative and stick to it. I would hope whatever spelling is chosen, people in Washington are also too preoccupied with other real world pursuits to give them much attention. I assume that’s what stayed in Vegas.
Trivia for the day……
The friend who forwarded “Squirrel Season” not only has a wonderful sense of humor, she has raised some darn good horses over the years. A stud she raised and sold became a world champion sire this past fall when a gelding sired by him was named world champion amateur heeling horse at Oklahoma City.
Yep, there’s a difference in apples.
BY RH1
(*new age horse savior cult)
Just one (of many) of my observations that I found funny in the message from the cloud foundation....
" Why: BLM’s cruel and poor mismanagement is destroying......."
hmmmm, poor mismanagement? Wouldn't the mean good management?
As usual RH1 good post!
Thank you all for following our blog, hope you enjoy reading these as much as I do.
Sincerely,
RM
It’s spring, a wet cold spring, but after the winter I have been through, it’s welcome all the same. I have been busy trying to get things shaped up where I keep my privately owned pieces of American Cowboy Heritage in holding pens, cruelly pitching feed to them, cleaning up after them, washing blankets, hauling hay, bedding, riding, all those things dreamed up to keep horses from their free roaming natural destiny. No one will march for them. They are stuck with the open market and me. They actually have registration papers to prove which branch of “history” they came from.
Annywaaayssss, this was forwarded to me with the comment “hmmmm, looks like it’s squirrel season in the east”. Pretty much.
The rally in Las Vegas was less than successful.
Imagine that, the good taxpaying citizens of Nevada would rather have a tax revenue producing business of any kind on their public land than worry about 10,000 or 30,000 non productive feral mutt horses. The ability to be swayed by facts or practicality is a perhaps the most important characteristic required for membership in the *NAHSC. So in an attempt to find more of their kind they have opted for a change of venue. What can I say? It’s worked so far. The further you remove the CAUSE from people who actually know if a horse runs up a tree or down a hole at night to sleep, the better your chances of gaining warm chanting bodies.
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----- Forwarded Message ----
A Rally and Lobby Day for Mustangs and Burros
When: Thursday, March 25thTime: 1:00-3:00pm, Press conference and speakers at 1:30pm (Filmmaker/Advocate Ginger Kathrens, Author RT FItch and many more- including special guests to be announced)
Where: Lafayette Park (northside of Whitehouse, on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW). At 3:00pm protesters will march with sign to the BLM office at 1849 ‘C’ Street.
Plus Mustangs on the Hill II: On Friday morning we’ll gather and brief people for meetings with their Represenatives in meetings to save the mustangs. Please schedule an appointment with your Representatives for Thursday morning or Friday. (Morning briefing location TBD)
Why: BLM’s cruel and poor mismanagement is destroying a vital piece of the American west. The American public is standing up for our horses and burros- please join us in a “March for Mustangs”, rally and protest and schedule meetings with your Representatives for Thursday morning or Friday. More information here at the Cloud Foundation. Please consider joining the march.. Many of us have sent emails to Congress and the White House, but little action has resulted. Protests in Nevada have had little impact. Let's bring it to Washington.http://thecloudfoun%20dation.wordpress%20.com/2010/%2002/24/march-%20for-mustangs-%20dc-protest-%20mustangs-%20on-the-hill-%20ii/
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I didn’t go to the Cloud Foundation page.
I just don’t want too.
I read about Karen Sussman’s “Sanctuary”. I researched Dayton Hyde through well over twenty years of legal profiteering from “saving” breeding, and selling the offspring of the last chancers. I read about Jason Meduna playing with smoke and mirrors until it became obvious to even the blind mice, he was not the second coming of anything. I watched Ginger’s attempt to elevate horses to Born Free lion status. I have read the R.T. Fitch (a.k.a. Grey Mane) Harlequin romance fictional account of Christmas Eve in the BLM holding pen. I can’t take anymore “pink nylon bridle”, I can’t find words corny enough to describe how much I care or how much you should care crap. Actually they don’t care what you have to say as long as you send Paypal, check, or credit card donations. For now I wish they would just pick a spelling for representative/represenative and stick to it. I would hope whatever spelling is chosen, people in Washington are also too preoccupied with other real world pursuits to give them much attention. I assume that’s what stayed in Vegas.
Trivia for the day……
The friend who forwarded “Squirrel Season” not only has a wonderful sense of humor, she has raised some darn good horses over the years. A stud she raised and sold became a world champion sire this past fall when a gelding sired by him was named world champion amateur heeling horse at Oklahoma City.
Yep, there’s a difference in apples.
BY RH1
(*new age horse savior cult)
Just one (of many) of my observations that I found funny in the message from the cloud foundation....
" Why: BLM’s cruel and poor mismanagement is destroying......."
hmmmm, poor mismanagement? Wouldn't the mean good management?
As usual RH1 good post!
Thank you all for following our blog, hope you enjoy reading these as much as I do.
Sincerely,
RM
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Rescue Requirements for FOB?
What criteria do FOB's have for rescues?
http://forums.prospero.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=44468.1
It's the new Year on ABR, and some of the members are ready for some changes. Alex and his merry band of Moderators? Not so much. I read the discussion about Requirements for Rescues, and honestly, there are some really good ideas. Ideas that would offer accountability. One of the posters made an excellent suggestion. Why not create a folder for Rescue reviews? Mary L, one of our favorite moderators, was quick to answer that the allotted amount of folders are already in use on ABR. A suggestion was made to combine the "Slaughter Issues" folders-they have two. Anyone want to guess how that went over? Alex, in his ever infinite wisdom, supported by his Moderators, feel that the WIKIs, created, and updated by the Rescues themselves are a wonderful way for those wondering about how legitimate a Rescue may be to find out for themselves. Have a separate folder where individuals can express their opinions? ON ABR? WHO CHANGED THE KOOL AID!!!????? There was a fair amount of deleting of posts on the thread. Who knows what comments Alex and the Mods felt were not "keeping to the subject". One thing remains clear, though. Alex Brown is in no way interested in promoting good, well run Rescues over the bad ones. He simply doesn't care. And any attempt made to differentiate between the two, even by those frequenting his discussion board will be stopped dead in it's tracks. One has to wonder just what Alex has to gain by encouraging the poorly run Rescues, and the Hoarders as Rescues to remain on his board digging for donations. And one can only hope that more of his followers will begin to see that his lack of caring is indeed hurting the horses. I have to believe that his policy of "deleting as he sees fit" is beginning to get on more than a few people's nerves. Ahhh Alex, be careful. You haven't sold those 5,000 copies of that book about the "Goodness and Greatness" of Barbaro yet. You may want to at least pretend to have some concern over how your faithful feel for just a bit longer. Cheers!
By RH2
http://forums.prospero.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=44468.1
It's the new Year on ABR, and some of the members are ready for some changes. Alex and his merry band of Moderators? Not so much. I read the discussion about Requirements for Rescues, and honestly, there are some really good ideas. Ideas that would offer accountability. One of the posters made an excellent suggestion. Why not create a folder for Rescue reviews? Mary L, one of our favorite moderators, was quick to answer that the allotted amount of folders are already in use on ABR. A suggestion was made to combine the "Slaughter Issues" folders-they have two. Anyone want to guess how that went over? Alex, in his ever infinite wisdom, supported by his Moderators, feel that the WIKIs, created, and updated by the Rescues themselves are a wonderful way for those wondering about how legitimate a Rescue may be to find out for themselves. Have a separate folder where individuals can express their opinions? ON ABR? WHO CHANGED THE KOOL AID!!!????? There was a fair amount of deleting of posts on the thread. Who knows what comments Alex and the Mods felt were not "keeping to the subject". One thing remains clear, though. Alex Brown is in no way interested in promoting good, well run Rescues over the bad ones. He simply doesn't care. And any attempt made to differentiate between the two, even by those frequenting his discussion board will be stopped dead in it's tracks. One has to wonder just what Alex has to gain by encouraging the poorly run Rescues, and the Hoarders as Rescues to remain on his board digging for donations. And one can only hope that more of his followers will begin to see that his lack of caring is indeed hurting the horses. I have to believe that his policy of "deleting as he sees fit" is beginning to get on more than a few people's nerves. Ahhh Alex, be careful. You haven't sold those 5,000 copies of that book about the "Goodness and Greatness" of Barbaro yet. You may want to at least pretend to have some concern over how your faithful feel for just a bit longer. Cheers!
By RH2
Monday, February 22, 2010
The lost Files....
Well OK not really lost just miss placed for a while.
My apologies to RH2 and our readers for my late posting of this and the next few blog posts. I miss placed them in a sub folder and just realized I had not posted them yet.
So sorry for not keeping up with my job! My only excuse is that life in real time sometimes gets in the way and I don't always look at the folder title closely enough before I hit save.
My apologies to RH2 and our readers for my late posting of this and the next few blog posts. I miss placed them in a sub folder and just realized I had not posted them yet.
So sorry for not keeping up with my job! My only excuse is that life in real time sometimes gets in the way and I don't always look at the folder title closely enough before I hit save.
33 Questions......
http://forums.prospero.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=44882.3
Boy, I've just got to be quicker! I was going to do a piece on this a few days ago, and now, it is closed to posting with deletions-of course. But the first two posts are deleted, and they were the most important ones. I'll have to give you the recap. After many months of talk on ABR about the Rescues, and Scammers, and Hoarders as Rescues, a group got together, and under the mistaken impression that they were working under the blessing of the Might Alex brown, compiled a list of 33 questions. These were to be posted on the WIKI of each Rescue and answered, so that anyone wishing to donate would be able to gain a clearer idea of the Rescue. Some of the questions had to do with how the Rescues got their funds, volunteer base, and who provided their Vet, and Farrier care. Their stand on Slaughter was also addressed. The questionnaire was pretty detailed, but didn't cover anything one wouldn't ask when checking out a Rescue. Pretty clear cut, right? So, post number 1 tells the Rescues on ABR that they are now required to add the questions to their WIKIs, which by the way, are required if you are fundraising on ABR. Post number 2 contained the questions. Post number 3 was from Alex's number 1 mouthpiece, Mary L, and that's where the problems begin. It was made clear that the questionnaire was not to be mandatory, and hinted that Alex was not completely on board. Alex posted later on to let everyone know he was less than pleased. Why? I'm not really sure. And, honorable mention has to go to one of my personal favorites, Jim Gath, or Tierra Madre, who really didn't want that set of questions on his WIKI. Of course he did the Jim thing, made a few jokes, pulled out the "I'm just a good ol' boy who can't figure out how to do this" card, and said he's just too busy to answer. And he really doesn't want you calling his vet, farrier, or feed store (the questionnaire asked if you had them, did not require the posting of contact information). The usual ABR battle ensued, and my guess would be that you won't see those questions answered by very many Rescues. Was it a perfect solution? No. Was it a step in the right direction? I think so. Could Alex Brown have facilitated something positive by supporting it rather than making it known he was not happy about it? You betcha! Again, I have to question why Mr. Brown is so comfortable with the status quo on ABR. He requires the WIKI, he could have required the questionnaire. If he thought it was too long, too whatever, he could have worked with the group to modify it instead of killing it. Wonder why he chose the latter? Once again, kudos to Alex and Mary L. ABR fails to do what could have been the right thing.
http://forums.prospero.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=44940.1 for "objections" that were raised.
By RH2
Boy, I've just got to be quicker! I was going to do a piece on this a few days ago, and now, it is closed to posting with deletions-of course. But the first two posts are deleted, and they were the most important ones. I'll have to give you the recap. After many months of talk on ABR about the Rescues, and Scammers, and Hoarders as Rescues, a group got together, and under the mistaken impression that they were working under the blessing of the Might Alex brown, compiled a list of 33 questions. These were to be posted on the WIKI of each Rescue and answered, so that anyone wishing to donate would be able to gain a clearer idea of the Rescue. Some of the questions had to do with how the Rescues got their funds, volunteer base, and who provided their Vet, and Farrier care. Their stand on Slaughter was also addressed. The questionnaire was pretty detailed, but didn't cover anything one wouldn't ask when checking out a Rescue. Pretty clear cut, right? So, post number 1 tells the Rescues on ABR that they are now required to add the questions to their WIKIs, which by the way, are required if you are fundraising on ABR. Post number 2 contained the questions. Post number 3 was from Alex's number 1 mouthpiece, Mary L, and that's where the problems begin. It was made clear that the questionnaire was not to be mandatory, and hinted that Alex was not completely on board. Alex posted later on to let everyone know he was less than pleased. Why? I'm not really sure. And, honorable mention has to go to one of my personal favorites, Jim Gath, or Tierra Madre, who really didn't want that set of questions on his WIKI. Of course he did the Jim thing, made a few jokes, pulled out the "I'm just a good ol' boy who can't figure out how to do this" card, and said he's just too busy to answer. And he really doesn't want you calling his vet, farrier, or feed store (the questionnaire asked if you had them, did not require the posting of contact information). The usual ABR battle ensued, and my guess would be that you won't see those questions answered by very many Rescues. Was it a perfect solution? No. Was it a step in the right direction? I think so. Could Alex Brown have facilitated something positive by supporting it rather than making it known he was not happy about it? You betcha! Again, I have to question why Mr. Brown is so comfortable with the status quo on ABR. He requires the WIKI, he could have required the questionnaire. If he thought it was too long, too whatever, he could have worked with the group to modify it instead of killing it. Wonder why he chose the latter? Once again, kudos to Alex and Mary L. ABR fails to do what could have been the right thing.
http://forums.prospero.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=44940.1 for "objections" that were raised.
By RH2
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Anti-horse-management Agenda
This Was Emailed to Me a Couple Days Ago
The NAHSC leaders showed up in droves to pick apart the perceived inaccuracies in Sue Wallis’s speech. I’m going to guess they won’t be so harsh on this urgent cry for to halt the mustang outrage.
Ginger Kathren’s producer of the Cloud documentary doesn’t even know the proper color terminology for her equine subjects. Orange is not a horse color. I also couldn’t help wondering when I was watching the documentary why she only studied their behavior in warm weather. Why did she think she was unable to find a particular horse the next spring?
Karen Sussman keeps genetic records of every horse that arrives on her ranch with the assistance of Dr. Gus Cothran, a Texas A & M equine geneticist. “We determine their DNA and their blood type to establish their historical background. It also tells us how much diversity is in the herd and the minimum number we need to maintain that genetic diversity. Contrary to what one might think wild horses suffer from less inbreeding than their domestic cousins. We think they have more genetic diversity than any breed of domestic horses.” Sussman says.
And this quote from Tice Supplee.
http://audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite0609.html
Another mantra from the wild-horse lobby is that the “mustangs” extant in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming are closely related to animals unleashed by the conquistadores. They are not; they are mongrels—a genetic morass of breeds issuing mostly from recently escaped or discarded livestock.
“Revisionist history promoted by horse lovers to give mustangs historic status,” is how Tice Supplee, director of bird conservation for Audubon Arizona, defines the Spanish-bloodline pitch.
The definition preferred by Erick Campbell—a biologist who retired from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2005 and who frequently dealt with feral-horse issues during his 30-year career—is: “pure, unadulterated BS.” Campbell told me this: “We managed everything from workhorses to Shetland ponies. Your daughter’s horse gets old or she stops liking it. So you turn it loose. Prior to World War II ranchers were basically managing these herds for sale to the Army. And to keep the quality up the Army would give the ranchers studs to release.”
Am forwarding this list of instructions for Obama's visit to Las Vegas next week. Based upon his disparaging comments about avoiding Las Vegas and what they've done to the local economy, wild horses may be the least of his concerns.
PLEASE EMAIL, FACEBOOK & TWITTER THIS INFORMATION TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.....
PROTEST: THE MUSTANG OUTRAGE will boil over on:
WHEN?
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM
WHERE?
Protest Speakers will first address the Press and Public on the steps of the Lloyd D George Federal Courthouse, 333 S. Las Vegas Building, Las Vegas NV (offices of Senators Ensign & Reid) and then Banners will be carried to over 40 locations across the entire city of Las Vegas so the public can see THE MUSTANG OUTRAGE!
CONTACT PERSON?
ARLENE GAWNE 702-277-1313 artistfromafrica@hotmail.com
On Thursday, February 18, 2010, President Obama is expected to arrive in Las Vegas, NV just when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is asking Congress for over $60 million dollars mostly for more roundups and over $40 million to buy farms in the East to warehouse the wild horses the BLM has condemned to captivity.
In memory of Freedom, the Calico mustang that leapt a high pen wall and burst through barbed wire to freedom, we ask you to turn out in huge numbers to say: NO MORE TAX
DOLLARS for horrific roundups, castration & warehousing OUR Western Heritage in the East! President Obama, we the People demand an end to BLM’s 40 years of subsidizing livestock & commercial interests on our land. GIVE WILD HORSES & BURROS THEIR FAIR SHARE OF PUBLIC LANDS. Protect them as the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse & Burro Act ordered you to do.
THE MUSTANG OUTRAGE will boil over at 1:30 PM on the northeast steps of the Federal Courthouse where one by one for maximum visual impact, 40-50 large banners will unfurl on the sidewalks of Las Vegas Boulevard! We are asking for a minimum of 100 people to hold these big banners, 2 persons to a banner. Banner holders or their friends/family can also wear a fabric sign we will provide that reads:
OBAMA: Order The BLM To Abolish Mustang Atrocities. This front piece leaves
your hands free for the banner or to pass out information sheets to the public. We ask all
protestors to dress in black to symbolically mourn the 39 horses that
the BLM admits have already died in the Calico Roundup. Transparency is not their strong suit. At 2 PM, Protest Speakers will make short but powerful speeches addressed to the President, beginning with the eyewitness account of the Calico Roundup by humane observer, Craig Downer. Speakers will also include Dr. Elliot M. Katz DVM and President of In Defense of Animals, Neda DeMayo, founder & CEO of Return To Freedom, an American Wild Horse Sanctuary in Lompoc CA, Gina Greisen, President of Nevada Voters for Animals; and Arlene Gawne, wildlife artist and concerned citizen.
At 2:30 PM, the banners will be rolled up and each pair of banner holders will have one hour to drive to their assigned location across Las Vegas. Bring along any assistants, friends, family – especially your kids. Bring your folding chair and favorite snacks – have fun!
At 3:30 PM at your assigned location, you will hold your banner for 1-1/2 to 2 hours so thousands can see our message across Las Vegas: home-going traffic on major streets, convention attendees, shoppers all across the city, tourists at major casinos, travelers entering and leaving McCarran and Nellis airports, university and college students at campus entry points, all Congress members’ offices (Reid, Ensign, Berkley, Titus and Heller), tourists at Red Rock Canyon and more. In particular, there will be a special banner at the BLM office near I-95 and Craig Road where there will be a meeting on Feb.18 concerning renewable energy – and some fear BLM plans to remove wild horses to make it easier to build such facilities. We say NO to that Mr. President.We can have renewable energy and wild horses & burros on the same public land. There will also be a special banner at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign on Las Vegas Blvd. This banner will let Nevada know that the BLM is stealing our wild horse & burro legacy. And we say NO to that, Mr. President, Secretary Salazar, and Mr. Bob Abbey, head of the BLM. This banner features the beautiful wild horses that delighted Red Rock Canyon visitors until the BLM rounded them up, castrated the stallions (their unique blood line was lost forever), and shipped them to the Midwest (most horses & burros never get adopted). We would like the Red Rock horses back please. They would increase jobs if Las Vegas became the hub of Southwest eco-tours. Come out and let politicians know we are not going to take it anymore! Come from another state and express your passion for mustangs
> & burros – America’s Wild History. If you are local and can’t take the full afternoon off work, call Arlene Gawne and get an assigned location for 3:30-5:30pm where you can pass out handouts or just stand up for what you believe in. It is invigorating to stand up to two-faced politicians; to special energy, mining and water groups that want the horses/burros gone, and the BLM. Let the Hilton Family Trust and other corporate cowboys pay the fair market cost to raise cattle on public land, not at 1/10th
the cost with current subsidized leases. America has already been brought to its knees by corporate greed and deliberate lack of political oversight. Mr. President, no more welfare cows! No more welfare industries! Please phone or email Arlene Gawne at 702-277-1313 or artistfromafrica@hotmail.com to sign up for one end of a banner. Bring a friend to hold the other end and a folding chair to sit on. If you can’t find a friend, we’ll pair you up with another volunteer. If you can’t hold a banner, pass out information sheets to the public. Just wave at people! Some 8’x3’ banners will be commercially printed and some will be hand-painted. You are welcome to bring your own banner but please make it big and easy to read. Our banners, the Obama fabric front pieces, handouts and Mustang Protest 101 instructions will be handed out on Wednesday at a time and place to be announced.
TOGETHER WE WILL SHOW THE PRESIDENT - NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL!
If for some reason the President’s visit is cancelled, it doesn’t matter as long as we make
MUSTANG OUTRAGE heard, loud and clear. The BLM in their Las Vegas meeting February 18, 2010 need to hear our MUSTANG OUTRAGE and stop plotting roundups. Committee members listening to Salazar’s sales pitch for our tax dollars need to know that Salazar must not get one single wild horse quarter for roundups and pens! Maybe the President’s daughters will hear about MUSTANG OUTRAGE and ask dad why those people want to keep the mustangs and burros wild and free in the West? When he thinks about his answer maybe his conscience will kick in because he handpicked Salazar. Let us stand together on February 18, 2010 and invite the President to bring his family West to view mustang behavior with someone like Ginger Kathrens. When he experiences the thrill of wild horses running free, he must realize there is great value in keeping mustangs wild – a value greater than a field of solar panels or a hamburger. President Roosevelt will turn in his grave if he doesn’t.
Obama wishes he could affect ANY local economy with one or two comments. Teddy Roosevelt was a rancher and an avid hunter.
By RH1
The NAHSC leaders showed up in droves to pick apart the perceived inaccuracies in Sue Wallis’s speech. I’m going to guess they won’t be so harsh on this urgent cry for to halt the mustang outrage.
Ginger Kathren’s producer of the Cloud documentary doesn’t even know the proper color terminology for her equine subjects. Orange is not a horse color. I also couldn’t help wondering when I was watching the documentary why she only studied their behavior in warm weather. Why did she think she was unable to find a particular horse the next spring?
Karen Sussman keeps genetic records of every horse that arrives on her ranch with the assistance of Dr. Gus Cothran, a Texas A & M equine geneticist. “We determine their DNA and their blood type to establish their historical background. It also tells us how much diversity is in the herd and the minimum number we need to maintain that genetic diversity. Contrary to what one might think wild horses suffer from less inbreeding than their domestic cousins. We think they have more genetic diversity than any breed of domestic horses.” Sussman says.
And this quote from Tice Supplee.
http://audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite0609.html
Another mantra from the wild-horse lobby is that the “mustangs” extant in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming are closely related to animals unleashed by the conquistadores. They are not; they are mongrels—a genetic morass of breeds issuing mostly from recently escaped or discarded livestock.
“Revisionist history promoted by horse lovers to give mustangs historic status,” is how Tice Supplee, director of bird conservation for Audubon Arizona, defines the Spanish-bloodline pitch.
The definition preferred by Erick Campbell—a biologist who retired from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2005 and who frequently dealt with feral-horse issues during his 30-year career—is: “pure, unadulterated BS.” Campbell told me this: “We managed everything from workhorses to Shetland ponies. Your daughter’s horse gets old or she stops liking it. So you turn it loose. Prior to World War II ranchers were basically managing these herds for sale to the Army. And to keep the quality up the Army would give the ranchers studs to release.”
Am forwarding this list of instructions for Obama's visit to Las Vegas next week. Based upon his disparaging comments about avoiding Las Vegas and what they've done to the local economy, wild horses may be the least of his concerns.
PLEASE EMAIL, FACEBOOK & TWITTER THIS INFORMATION TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.....
PROTEST: THE MUSTANG OUTRAGE will boil over on:
WHEN?
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM
WHERE?
Protest Speakers will first address the Press and Public on the steps of the Lloyd D George Federal Courthouse, 333 S. Las Vegas Building, Las Vegas NV (offices of Senators Ensign & Reid) and then Banners will be carried to over 40 locations across the entire city of Las Vegas so the public can see THE MUSTANG OUTRAGE!
CONTACT PERSON?
ARLENE GAWNE 702-277-1313 artistfromafrica@hotmail.com
On Thursday, February 18, 2010, President Obama is expected to arrive in Las Vegas, NV just when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is asking Congress for over $60 million dollars mostly for more roundups and over $40 million to buy farms in the East to warehouse the wild horses the BLM has condemned to captivity.
In memory of Freedom, the Calico mustang that leapt a high pen wall and burst through barbed wire to freedom, we ask you to turn out in huge numbers to say: NO MORE TAX
DOLLARS for horrific roundups, castration & warehousing OUR Western Heritage in the East! President Obama, we the People demand an end to BLM’s 40 years of subsidizing livestock & commercial interests on our land. GIVE WILD HORSES & BURROS THEIR FAIR SHARE OF PUBLIC LANDS. Protect them as the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse & Burro Act ordered you to do.
THE MUSTANG OUTRAGE will boil over at 1:30 PM on the northeast steps of the Federal Courthouse where one by one for maximum visual impact, 40-50 large banners will unfurl on the sidewalks of Las Vegas Boulevard! We are asking for a minimum of 100 people to hold these big banners, 2 persons to a banner. Banner holders or their friends/family can also wear a fabric sign we will provide that reads:
OBAMA: Order The BLM To Abolish Mustang Atrocities. This front piece leaves
your hands free for the banner or to pass out information sheets to the public. We ask all
protestors to dress in black to symbolically mourn the 39 horses that
the BLM admits have already died in the Calico Roundup. Transparency is not their strong suit. At 2 PM, Protest Speakers will make short but powerful speeches addressed to the President, beginning with the eyewitness account of the Calico Roundup by humane observer, Craig Downer. Speakers will also include Dr. Elliot M. Katz DVM and President of In Defense of Animals, Neda DeMayo, founder & CEO of Return To Freedom, an American Wild Horse Sanctuary in Lompoc CA, Gina Greisen, President of Nevada Voters for Animals; and Arlene Gawne, wildlife artist and concerned citizen.
At 2:30 PM, the banners will be rolled up and each pair of banner holders will have one hour to drive to their assigned location across Las Vegas. Bring along any assistants, friends, family – especially your kids. Bring your folding chair and favorite snacks – have fun!
At 3:30 PM at your assigned location, you will hold your banner for 1-1/2 to 2 hours so thousands can see our message across Las Vegas: home-going traffic on major streets, convention attendees, shoppers all across the city, tourists at major casinos, travelers entering and leaving McCarran and Nellis airports, university and college students at campus entry points, all Congress members’ offices (Reid, Ensign, Berkley, Titus and Heller), tourists at Red Rock Canyon and more. In particular, there will be a special banner at the BLM office near I-95 and Craig Road where there will be a meeting on Feb.18 concerning renewable energy – and some fear BLM plans to remove wild horses to make it easier to build such facilities. We say NO to that Mr. President.We can have renewable energy and wild horses & burros on the same public land. There will also be a special banner at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign on Las Vegas Blvd. This banner will let Nevada know that the BLM is stealing our wild horse & burro legacy. And we say NO to that, Mr. President, Secretary Salazar, and Mr. Bob Abbey, head of the BLM. This banner features the beautiful wild horses that delighted Red Rock Canyon visitors until the BLM rounded them up, castrated the stallions (their unique blood line was lost forever), and shipped them to the Midwest (most horses & burros never get adopted). We would like the Red Rock horses back please. They would increase jobs if Las Vegas became the hub of Southwest eco-tours. Come out and let politicians know we are not going to take it anymore! Come from another state and express your passion for mustangs
> & burros – America’s Wild History. If you are local and can’t take the full afternoon off work, call Arlene Gawne and get an assigned location for 3:30-5:30pm where you can pass out handouts or just stand up for what you believe in. It is invigorating to stand up to two-faced politicians; to special energy, mining and water groups that want the horses/burros gone, and the BLM. Let the Hilton Family Trust and other corporate cowboys pay the fair market cost to raise cattle on public land, not at 1/10th
the cost with current subsidized leases. America has already been brought to its knees by corporate greed and deliberate lack of political oversight. Mr. President, no more welfare cows! No more welfare industries! Please phone or email Arlene Gawne at 702-277-1313 or artistfromafrica@hotmail.com to sign up for one end of a banner. Bring a friend to hold the other end and a folding chair to sit on. If you can’t find a friend, we’ll pair you up with another volunteer. If you can’t hold a banner, pass out information sheets to the public. Just wave at people! Some 8’x3’ banners will be commercially printed and some will be hand-painted. You are welcome to bring your own banner but please make it big and easy to read. Our banners, the Obama fabric front pieces, handouts and Mustang Protest 101 instructions will be handed out on Wednesday at a time and place to be announced.
TOGETHER WE WILL SHOW THE PRESIDENT - NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL!
If for some reason the President’s visit is cancelled, it doesn’t matter as long as we make
MUSTANG OUTRAGE heard, loud and clear. The BLM in their Las Vegas meeting February 18, 2010 need to hear our MUSTANG OUTRAGE and stop plotting roundups. Committee members listening to Salazar’s sales pitch for our tax dollars need to know that Salazar must not get one single wild horse quarter for roundups and pens! Maybe the President’s daughters will hear about MUSTANG OUTRAGE and ask dad why those people want to keep the mustangs and burros wild and free in the West? When he thinks about his answer maybe his conscience will kick in because he handpicked Salazar. Let us stand together on February 18, 2010 and invite the President to bring his family West to view mustang behavior with someone like Ginger Kathrens. When he experiences the thrill of wild horses running free, he must realize there is great value in keeping mustangs wild – a value greater than a field of solar panels or a hamburger. President Roosevelt will turn in his grave if he doesn’t.
Obama wishes he could affect ANY local economy with one or two comments. Teddy Roosevelt was a rancher and an avid hunter.
By RH1
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