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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; Outlaw76
Thank you. I think your post shows some common sense.

The part I didn't get was this part: "The price on horses is about to go up again. I saw it dip in the past when there wasn't anyway to profit off of old worn out horses other than to bury them so they didn't take money away in feed costs. I think this will help horsemen and ranchers out a bit."

Outlaw talks like this is a proposal to somehow make horse slaughter legal for people who want to dispose of a horse, which it is already, much as I don't like it. It is the sale of rounded up mustangs to slaughter that has not been allowed previously. Flooding the 'market' with 10,000 slaughtered mustangs is not going to ~increase~ the price. The bottom's going to drop out, if temporarily. An important distinction.

144 posted on 02/25/2005 3:30:57 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

But with fewer horses on the market for slaughter, the price will go up for people who have a horse that needs to go, and IMO, this is a better solution then adopting these poor animals out to idiots who have no idea how to deal with horses. And I've seen that happen time and again. It will also keep the breeding of dink horses from happening which so many people do when they have horses. It could improve horses rather then have indiscrimate breeding which is done all the time by people who have a mare and think well why not.

Becky


146 posted on 02/25/2005 3:37:39 PM PST by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (aka: Horselifter, Mackdaddy:)
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