Gonna need a lot of willing folks to take these mustangs - as for the rest, should tax money be spent on this issue?
Most of the horses in the pasturing program are older than 3 years. Many of them are more than 7 years old.
The chances of doing anything useful with them after adopting them is slim.
It is long since past time that the hard reality of horse herd growth rates starts to sink in to the Wild Horse Annie types. At 17% herd size increase per year, there simply isn’t enough money, enough pasture, or enough adoptive owners to solve the problem.
And to not put too fine a point on it, there are plenty of horse out there that simply should be shot on sight. They’re barely horses any more - they look more like something that landed from Mars - short necks, big roman noses, stubby legs with big joints - terrible conformation horses are left in the herds because (drum roll please) they’re absolutely un-adoptable. So then a gather is done, they’re kicked out of the corrals back onto the range, to further pollute the genetic pool.
It is long since past time to use euthanasia as an option on the mustangs. For the hammerheads, it would be best to simply send horse conformation experts and riflemen paired together into Nevada and just shoot them on sight.
But that would be too cost-efficient and make too much sense.
If people don’t want to domesticate them and put them to use, manage them just like all the rest of the wildlife.
Don’t kill ‘em yet. By the time this generation of so-called political “leaders” gets done, we very well may need them to get around on.
Solution=dog food!