And responsible horse owners will be glad to do it that way. Problem is majority of horse owners were backyard idiots that thought it was cool to have a horse until feed got so high. Most of them simply quit feeding the horse until people threaten to call authorities on them- then they dump them. There really is no way to deal with that type of owner- but when those people could take that horse to the sale and get around $1,000 bucks for them if they were in good condition- then that is what they did. Since the dudly do gooders killed the horse market by shutting down slaughter here they brought this all about.
I think everyone that signed the horse slaughter bill petition to congress needs to pony up and pay to care for all these horses. They assured us that would happen when they were getting slaughter shut down. Where is Willie Nelson and other celebrities that fought for this to happen?
I’d like to round up a couple hundred head of these poor horses and haul them to Willy’s place in Texas and dump them out for him to care for.
Don’t ask them to pay for the care of these horses. Because they’re going to just chuck them in with the pastured mustangs.
You know that there are thousands of mustangs being shipped hither and yon around the country to pasturing contractors, right? This is the second part of the BLM’s solution to the over-population of mustangs on the western range: they adopt out the few horses they can, and the rest they’ve gathered up that cannot be adopted out go to “pasture” - where the BLM puts a bunch with various vendors who meet minimum requirements on a six-month basis. Lowest bidder for pasture gets the horses.
You, I and ever other taxpayer are spending about $3/head/day to pasture a bunch of utterly useless mustangs that were removed from HMA’s because they were destroying the range. It’s insane.