BLM puts off West Douglas Wild Horse Stampede HOUSTON – (HfHAC) After filing contempt of court, complaints and today a TRO attempting to stop the “Zeroing Out” of the West Douglas Wild Horse herd next week the combined wild horse coalition learned of the BLM’s decision to pull back and wait to conduct [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Breaking News: Advocate’s Wild Horse Suits Make BLM Flinch
Posted: September 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Animal welfare, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Equine, Front Range Equine Rescue, Habitat for Horses, Habitat for Horses Advisory Council, Horse, Injunction, The Cloud Foundation, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
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Salazar Sued for Contempt of Court in West Douglas Wild Horse Case
Posted: September 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bob Abbey, Bureau of Land Management, cloud foundation, Colorado Wild Horse & Burro Coalition, Department of Interior, Equine, Front Range Equine Rescue, Habaitat for Horses, Habitat for Horses, Horse, Ken Salazar, Mustang, National Environmental Policy Act, Schiff Hardin, West Douglas, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
HOUSTON, (HfHAC) – On September 28th, 2010 plaintiff Colorado Wild Horse & Burro Coalition (CWBC), supported by Habitat for Horses Advisory Council (HfHAC) and Front Range Equine Rescue (FRER), filed a motion to reopen the case and for contempt of court in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Secretary of the Department of Interior Ken Salazar.
For Our Animals the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Reside in DC
Posted: September 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in UncategorizedTags: animals, Cruelty to animals, Humane Society of the United States, Politics, United States Senate
On the up side, the U.S. Senate last night gave unanimous approval to legislation to crack down on animal crush videos—the vile depictions of staged scenes in which scantily clad women maim and torture animals for the sexual gratification of viewers. I’ve written about it several times before, and the first reaction of any decent person is shock that anyone could possibly be so cruel to participate in making or watching this perversion. All good people are rightly outraged and disgusted by the idea of someone torturing and killing animals just for the sexual titillation of others. The bill, pushed by Sens. Jon Kyl, R. Ariz., Jeff Merkley, D. Ore., and Richard Burr, R. N.C., must now go back to the House, and we hope that chamber approves it in rapid fashion.
Judge Denies TRO to Stop Wild Horse Roundup at Refuge
Posted: September 29, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Animal rights, Animal welfare, Cattoor, Cruelty to animals, Death, Equine, Horse, Injunction, Mustang, Nevada, roundup, stampede, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
RENO, Nev. — A federal judge has denied a request by animal rights advocates to halt roundups of wild horses after the federal government quietly gathered nearly 400 mustangs at a national wildlife refuge on the Nevada-Oregon line.
BLM Back to Work Killing Wild Horses
Posted: September 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cattoor, Cruelty to animals, Death, Equestrian, government corruption, Horse, murder, Mustang, Nevada, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Here we go again. It’s only three days into the controversial Silver King roundup, south of Ely, Nevada, and the BLM has already killed four perfectly healthy wild horses out of the 177 they’ve taken into custody.
A Few Rotten Apples Do Not a Herd Make
Posted: September 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Advocacy, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Horse, jealousy, vanity, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Yesterday we dropped a simple “tongue-in cheek” OpEd on our readers in an effort to bring in a little fresh air and to lighten the load, a bit, for those who work so hard to do the right thing for the horses. Lord knows we need it with all of the dark injustices that whirl around us and make us truly wonder at the direction our country is headed. But when I opened up the window and let the fresh air fill my lungs there was the slightest hint of rotten apples that lingered in my nose. I stepped back for a moment, looked around and verbalized:
“Who farted upwind?”
Advocates Condemn Wild Horse Stampede at Sheldon Refuge
Posted: September 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Cattoor, Cruelty to animals, Death, Equine, Fish and Wildlife Service, Goverment Corruption, GrassRootsHorse.com, Helicopter, Horse, Laura Leigh, Leslie Peeples, Mustang, roundup, Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, stampede, United States, United States Department of the Interior, United States federal courts, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Federal agencies and a helicopter contractor last week conducted an unannounced wild horse gather of nearly 400 mustangs at the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge 200 miles north of Reno, a operation that led to legal action by wild horse advocates.
