There is no such thing as a wild horse in the US. These are feral horses. Many of these are horses that are dumped for various reasons, particularly a poor economy. There are very few that can trace their ancestry to the Spanish settlers.
By what reasoning should these animals stay and someone who pays for a lease and does mandatory improvements and manages the lease to have feed forever available out there be forced out? By what reasoning should the tax payer foot the bill for these animals and forego the income from the leases? In any of these videos does anyone see any reasonable amount of grazing available for these animals (Note that one horse eats considerably more than one cow calf unit). No one cries for the preservation of wild cows (and feral cows do exist).
We should note that this is what they want us to see. One woman says it is better they die of old age. Does anyone see any animals in the wild die of old age? They eventually slow down, become prey or fail to make it to food and water and starve or then become prey. No “wild animal” dies of old age.
They play on your sentiment. THey play you for a sucker. They lie and say they feel as you do. They never appeal to your logic or reason. Their entire pitch is the noble horse. Watch the documentray “Cloud” and tell me how noble the stallion that dismembers the colt is.
Read the NYT Magazine article about the lawyer who is suing for personhood for chimps. Do you really think it will stop there? THis animal sentimentality is a slope waaay more slippery than the gay marriage transgender issue.
I like cows. I like horses too, tame and wild ones. I even like goats. And ‘feral’ barn cats. But the question of whether horses should take grazing precidence over cows or cows over horses on multi-use public land isn’t the point I’m trying to highlight. There are 88 million cows in the USA, 9 million domesticated horses and 30,000 wild horses. I’ll leave it at that.
Besides pointing out Guilfoyle admitting, it’s all about controlling water, my intent is to show video evidence that the BLM is no stranger to inhumane handling of animals, be it a Bundy cow, a Dunn or Gage bull, or a ‘feral’ wild horse or burro (or cat) in Utah with broken legs. Like the Utah roundup, the treatment of Bundy cattle wasn’t just a single case of “BLM goes on a wild an crazy weekend”. People who abuse four legged animals will abuse two legged animals. Labeling rangestock ‘feral’ is not permission to run animals to death, whether cow or goat or sheep or horse or burro. Is that overly sentimental? I don’t think it is.