I am, perhaps, guilty of over-working the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words” but this concept most certainly applies, as of late, to the unnecessary suffering and pain that is being rained down upon our, supposedly, federally protected wild horses by the Obama administration’s BLM. Long before the start of the stampede Laura Leigh was out on the Antelope Complex looking for horses, of which there were not many, and photographed those that she could find. Today, she has uploaded a very poignant slide show which displays the horses as they were before the roar of helicopter blades and what happens to them after the BLM’s contractor illegaly removes them from our public land.
Archive for January, 2011
“Unsinkable Molly B” is the Luckiest Cow in the World
Posted: January 31, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in UncategorizedTags: Animal welfare, Cattle, Cow, Habitat for Horses, Humane Society of the United States, Jerry Finch, Molly B, montana, ZooMontana
Five years after a cow dubbed the “Unsinkable Molly B” leapt a slaughterhouse gate and swam across the Missouri River in an escape that brought international acclaim, the heifer has again eluded fate, surviving the collapse of the animal sanctuary where she was meant to retire.
Montana Horse Sanctuary Giving In-Crisis Horses a Second Chance
Posted: January 31, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse RescueTags: Billings, Billings Montana, Cruelty to animals, Donkey, Equine, Horse, Jane Heath, montana, Montana Animal Sanctuary
Recent cases of animal cruelty and neglect in Montana are enough to make anyone angry or upset but one woman and a large crew of dedicated volunteers are working to make a difference in the lives of in-crisis animals every day.
Renowned Wild Horse Expert Disputes BLM’s Flawed Math
Posted: January 30, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: AML, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Craig Downer, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Governement Corruption, Horse, Public land, Widl Burro, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Thank you for this opportunity to give input. I have reviewed the E.A. and am disturbed by the repeated arguments that I have read many times before as concerns “wild horse overpopulation,” “multiple use,” “thriving ecological balance,” etc. The employment of these terms to justify what you are planning to do to the wild horses makes a mockery of their true meaning.
Obama Wild Horse Stampede Contractor Rewrites the Truth
Posted: January 30, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bob Abbey, Bureau of Land Management, burro, Cruelty to animals, Dave Cattoor, Death, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Helicopter, helicopter stampede, Horse, Obama Administration, Public land, stampede, Sue Cattor, wild burro, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
On January 24th our good friend and college Robert Winkler of The Desert Independent published a guest editorial written by the wife of one of the Bureau of Land Management’s chief helicopter wild horse stampede contractors, Sue Cattoor. I read it, I gagged, I moved on and did not comment. There was a moment that I considered posting it, here, and decided against giving this self-ordained queen of wild horse suffering any more publicity to feed her maniacal ego. But after days of eating at my soul; I just can’t let it go as I sincerely owe it to the tens of thousands of wild horses whose lives have been destroyed, both figuratively and literally, to respond to this trashing of the truth and blatant attempt to further mislead and twist the opinion of the American public.
Nevada “Wildlife” Board Wants Wild Horses to Die of Thirst
Posted: January 30, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Bureau of Land Management, Cruelty to animals, Horse, Ken Salazar, Mustang, Nevada, Public land, United States, United States Department of the Interior, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Nevada wild horses and burros could face a thirsty spring if a proposal to the state’s water engineer by the board overseeing wildlife is passed and implemented.
For Their Brand
Posted: January 29, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Bureau of Land Management, Equestrian, Horse, Mare, Rob Pliskin, Western, wild burro, Wild Horse
I don’t need to see more horses run
Or watch another mare take an icy fall,
A burro fleeing like an outlaw from some lawman’s gun
When living the life God gave them’s no crime at all.
