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Illness is Killing Young Wild Horses in Obama’s BLM Mustang Concentration Camps

Posted: February 10, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse Health, Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Maureen Harmonay ~ Equine Advocacy Examiner

The Bulk of BLM Wild Horse Deaths Occur AFTER the Stampede

Editor’s Note:  “This story bears enough timely importance that we reprinted it in it’s entirity in an effort to futher Maureen’s reach and  spread of this grim news.  Please stop by Maureen’s Examiner site (HERE) to render further comment on this reoccurring, unnecessary and inhumane tragedy.”

More BLM abuse and cruelty at Antelope Stampede; bloodied and terrorized wild mustang ~ photo by Laura Leigh

Behind the closed doors of the BLM’s Indian Lakes Road holding facility near Fallon, Nevada, pneumonia is suddenly claiming an alarming number of wild horses.  During the week ending February 4th, 12 horses perished in the short-term holding pens known as “Broken Arrow”; eight of them were yearling victims of “secondary pneumonia.”  Upper respiratory disease has been rampant among the young horses confined at Broken Arrow since last June, and now it’s attacking the latest arrivals, whose immune systems are at their most vulnerable.These were otherwise healthy horses who were recently stampeded off their expansive ranges and captured in the dead of winter, as part of the just-concluded Eagle and Callaghan Complex roundups in Nevada.  A total of 850 wild horses from these roundups were shipped directly to the Indian Lakes Road feedlot.  According to the BLM’s own reports, at least 37 of them are now dead, with 32 of these fatalities having occurred in the six weeks since the beginning of the year.

In a repeat of the pattern that emerged at the same facility after last year’s Calico Complex roundup, other horses are starting to die or be “euthanized” as a result of what the BLM’s veterinarian characterizes as “hyperlipemia,” a condition of metabolic and liver failure caused by the extreme stress of the helicopter chase, entrapment, and ongoing captivity.   Four of the horses who died at Indian Lakes Road in recent weeks were deemed to have perished from this roundup-related condition.

The BLM and its contractors like to pat themselves on the back by citing artificially deflated “gather mortality rates” in the vicinity of 1%.  Indeed, in its press release announcing the conclusion of the Callaghan Complex roundup earlier this week, the BLM boasted that the gather-related mortality rate was .8%.  But that’s deceptive.  The true cost in equine lives is much, much higher than that.  It’s dishonest to count only the horses whose lives were cut short at a trap site.  The ones who fall in their wake are victims, too.

Video and Photos by Laura Leigh of Grass Roots Horse

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BLM Helicopter Stampede Contractor Sues Citizen Journalist

Posted: December 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Steven Long ~ Author/Publisher of Horseback Magazine

Cattoors Attempt to Rewrite the Constitution

Wild Horse Stampede Contractors, Dave and Sue Cattoor give the U.S. Constitution the finger

HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A citizen journalist working for The Examiner.com has been sued by the government’s largest BLM “gather” contractor. The suit filed in a rural Juab County, Utah district court charges Maureen Harmonay routinely misrepresented the facts in a series of stories on wild horse roundups in several western states.

Harmonay has filed a denial with the court.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are David and Sue Cattoor, owners of Cattoor Livestock Roundup, Inc. of Nephi, Utah.

Citizen journalists are recent phenomena, an outgrowth of Internet publishing. Under press freedoms afforded by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, virtually anybody can be a journalist. Unlike in other countries, in the United States no license to practice the craft is required. Such journalists, like their professional brethren, are afforded broad protections under a landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling, New York Times vs. Sullivan. Since the ruling the legal doctrine has provided safe refuge for a generation of journalists who write about the rich and powerful, often to their subject’s discomfort. The ruling sets very high standards a plaintiff must meet to prevail in a lawsuit. Journalists are largely protected by the doctrine when writing about public officials and public figures such as someone in the news. The plaintiff must prove malice.  Both Cattoors, because of their high profile in the BLM wild horse and slaughter controversies, would likely be considered public figures by the courts.

Harmonay is a Sterling, Massachusetts real estate agent and freelance writer.

“I am a former Thoroughbred bloodstock agent and am passionately interested in the welfare of horses,” she told Horseback Magazine. “I write about equine advocacy and rescue topics, as well as about Thoroughbred pedigree issues.”

Examiner.com is a website that publishes the freelance contributions of local and national writers on a variety of newsworthy topics, including arts, culture, education, food, pets, politics, sport, and travel.

The Cattoors have been fiercely protective of their turf closing off their roundups to journalists. The couple has also threatened other publications and reporters with lawsuits.

The Cattoor’s attorney, Stephen Queensenberry of a Provo, Utah, law firm has written several extremely threatening letters to journalists, publications, and websites, covering the Cattoor’s BLM roundups including one to Harmonay stating, “I want to remind you that you will be litigating pro se in a rural county of a conservative state. Our clients have lived in Juab County for a very long time. It is likely, from our prospective, that a jury might award anywhere from six figures to the low seven figures. Our case is defamation per se, so we do not have to prove any actual damages. If we obtain a judgment, we will pursue it through bankruptcy or anything else.”

“You can see from this brief excerpt how threatening this is,” Harmonay said.

In their years as BLM contractors, the Cattors have billed the government millions.

Sue Cattoor responded to a request for comment by the Horseback saying, “I am sure you have read the lawsuit and what we asked Maureen to do and not to do.  The other defendants – publishers & etc I believe can not be held accountable for what she writes or has written.”

Two defendants including the operators of The Examiner have been dropped from the lawsuit according to Harmonay.

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“I, likewise, have been attacked by the Cattoors in an effort to subvert my First Amendment Rights.  Isn’t it incredible that a contractor who works for the Federal Government who is then funded by American taxpayers can believe that they can then sue taxpayers for reporting the truth?  Absolutely mind-bending. My love letter from Sue can be viewed by clicking (HERE).” ~ R.T.

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Wild Horse was Driven over Rocks to His Death During Recent Owyhee Roundup

Posted: August 2, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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By Maureen Harmonay ~ Equine Advocacy Examiner

BLM Helicopter Stampede Casualties Continue to Mount

BLM Helicopters drove Wild Horse off Cliff ~ Photo by Katie Fite

An independent observer who recently returned from scouting the Herd Area in north Elko County, Nevada where the Owyhee portion of the Tuscarora Gather took place has photographic evidence that one of the wild horses appears to have been driven to his or her death over rocky cliffs, presumably by Cattoor, the BLM’s helicopter contractor.

Though no such fatality was ever reported by the BLM, Katie Fite, a Biodiversity Director for the Western Watersheds Project, was able to document it during her visit to the area on July 25th and 26th.  Her photograph depicting a horse lying dead on the rocks near the Owyhee River was submitted in support of Laura Leigh’s legal motions against the BLM on the Tuscarora matter, the most recent of which was filed on Friday, July 30th.

Ms. Fite explained:

“I noted evidence that horses had been driven down the river bed and held in temporary corrals.  Also noted a horse that appears to have been driven onto the rocks.”

Ms. Fite’s photographs were taken at the South Fork of the Owyhee River, north of the Owyhee roundup trap site, where she observed four places at which wild horses have access to water, contrary to the BLM’s prior assertions that because no water was available to the mustangs in this Herd Area (HA), an “emergency rescue gather” was justified and necessary.

Another observer, wild horse advocate Sandra Longley, also visited the Owyhee roundup area on July 16th and 17th, to document forage, water sources, cattle, and gates.  She reported:

“I stood there on the Owyhee on July 17th amidst fields of wildflowers, water pouring out of the sides of mountains, and springs with water running down and alongside of roads.  There was nothing but cattle, but over a few hills, many wild horses were dying. . .No horses could be documented except an ecosystem littered with the dead bodies of horses, who had suffered heat stroke at the hands of Sue Cattoor, the helicopter contractor.

There is so much more to come.  We have yet to get the total of horses who died or were ‘rescued’ with a bullet out on the desert where they were stumbling around suffering from heat stroke from being pushed by the helicopter.  Many of those would have been foals. . .By not counting those horses as ‘gather’ deaths, but due to drought, the BLM is allowed to escape being blamed for the largest massacre during a roundup.”

It is true that the BLM has never acknowledged, or reported, the deaths of the fallen horses Ms. Longley describes, but their stories must be told.  In a press release issued today, the agency admits that 34 wild horses have died as a direct result of the Tuscarora roundup, but it’s clear that the actual number who have perished at the BLM’s directive is much, much higher.

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You can contact me at MHarmonay@comcast.net.

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Last Chance for Animals Documents the Pain and Suffering Endured by Wild Horses Held by the BLM

Posted: April 25, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Reported by Maureen Harmonay – Equine Advocacy Examiner

Wild Horses continue to Suffer from BLM Cruelty

Suffering Horses from Calico Roundup - Photo by Elyse Gardner

An on-the-ground investigation by Last Chance for Animals’ Special Investigations Unit (SIU) of the wild horses held in BLM custody at two facilities in Nevada reveals graphic evidence of the horses’ suffering from broken bodies and broken spirits as a result of their violent capture.

Investigators from the Los Angeles-based animal advocacy organization were present in Gerlach, Nevada in February, 2010 to witness the last few days of the BLM roundup of more than 1900 wild horses form the five Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in Nevada’s Calico Mountain Complex.  What they saw corroborates previous testimony by a host of other humane observers, including Elyse Gardner, Craig Downer, Terri Farley, and Laura Leigh:

“Helicopters, with deafening blades, terrorize and force herds of frightened wild, free-roaming horses to gallop for their lives, not realizing they are being herded to a corral where they will be forever removed from their native land.  As a result of the roundups, some of the horses become bloodied, injured, and exhausted, and some mares miscarried their foals.  Others simply die in the process.

The family structure of these horses is torn apart.  As the horses are herded into the trap, the stallions are separated form the mares and the foals from their mothers.  The horses are shipped to another facility where they stand, their spirits broken and all life erased from their eyes, in their own waste with no escape from the elements.  These iconic creatures of the Wild West will never see their grazing lands or their family again.”

Based on their assessment of the condition of the horses being stampeded from the Calico range into BLM traps, the LCA investigators strongly disputed the BLM’s oft-repeated contention that wild horses need to be rounded up because otherwise they would perish from starvation if left to forage on their own:

“The BLM’s stated reason for removing the wild horses is because they are starving or soon will be.  As you can clearly see by our video of the horses being rounded up, not a single one is starving or even thin.  The facts belie the BLM’s statements.  We also saw other wild horses out in the same area and we did not see a single one who looked to be in any kind of distress.  In fact, the only horses we saw who were injured were those that had become so due to the BLM’s ill-advised roundup.”

At the conclusion of the Calico roundup, LCA representatives visited both the Broken Arrow feedlot facility in Fallon, Nevada, where the Calico horses are currently being held, and the Palomino Valley long-term holding and adoption facility in Reno.  They documented the substandard conditions which the horses are forced to endure in both places:

“The horses, including young foals, do not have any access to shade or cover in order to escape the elements.  These facilities are in Nevada where temperatures reach into the 120′s during the summer and sub-freezing during winter.  Icy cold winds whip through the facilities but the horses have no way to escape the elements.  They are forced to stand in the mud of their own feces and urine.  We saw numerous foals and horses with bloody hooves.”

Last Chance for Animals has launched a “Stop the Genocide, Stop the BLM Roundups” campaign, with a striking poster featuring fitness guru Jillian Michaels and a horse named, “Buzz.”

For more information about LCA’s Special Investigation of the Calico roundup, please watch the video.

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BLM Ignores Calico Wild Horse Advocates’ Concerns

Posted: April 22, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Maureen Harmonay – Equine Advocacy Examiner

Behind Locked Gates the BLM Acts with Total Secrecy and Zero Transparency

Wild Horse advocates R.T. Fitch, Elyse Gardener and Ginger Kathrens trying to get answers from BLM at Pryor Mt. Round-up

For the last 11 days, the BLM has been trying to make it seem that there is nothing we need to know about the captive wild horses form the Calico Mountains who are currently being held in a closed door feedlot in Fallon, Nevada.  Day after day, since April 10th, the agency’s Gather Daily Updates have contained essentially the same message:

“Most stallions and weaned colts are doing well and gaining weight.  Mares from Black Rock East, Black Rock West and most Granite horses continue to do well.  Mares from Warm Springs and Calico are improving.  Mares that have been isolated for poor condition are gaining weight.  No miscarriages occurred.  Mares are actively foaling and new foals are born daily.”

In the absence of relevant details, observers have no choice but to read between the lines.  On Friday, April 16th, we learned that the BLM had started to castrate all male horses aged four and under.  It’s hard to believe that the gelding has progressed without incident, but the BLM has been mum.  What little we know about how the colts and young stallions are being castrated comes from the report of Dr. Eric Davis, who has inspected the Fallon facility on two different occasions, on behalf of the Humane Society of the U.S.

In his February 13th report, Dr. Davis said that BLM veterinarian Dr. Richard Sanford uses “an ultra short acting paralytic agent,” succinylcholine, to immobilize the horses “prior to the administration of a xylazine and ketamine combination, which causes unconsciousness and analgesia.”

According to Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals, by noted veterinarian Dr. Murray E. Fowler:

“Succinylcholine is the most rapidly acting immobilizing agent available.  Succinylcholine and other similar agents have been used extensively in wild animal immobilization in the past, but newer, non-paralyzing agents have supplanted them. . .

Animals appear to be bewildered by the whole experience.  Psychological stress is associated with being unable to fight or flee–the normal alarm response.”

So in addition to the residual physical pain of the castration procedure, the young Calico mustang males are experiencing profound emotional stress from their inability to control what is happening to them.

Have the gelding operations resulted in any complications?  We don’t know.  Have any horses had to be resuscitated because they stopped breathing?  Dr. Fowler warns that “cessation of respiration is a natural result of succinylcholine immobilization.  Procedures should not be attempted without resuscitation equipment available.”  And indeed, Dr. Davis’s report confirms that such equipment is on standby for “horses that became apneic (stopped breathing).  Apparently, this does happen occasionally using the described anesthesia protocol, and there have been a very small number of deaths occur.”

If any of the castrations have been anything but routine, the BLM isn’t admitting it.  All it will say, as it did today, is that “the gelding of four years and younger horses is underway and will continue until completed.”

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Maureen Harmonay has been a passionate equine advocate since the 1970s, when she bred and raced thoroughbreds and worked as a thoroughbred bloodstock agent. More recently, she has spoken out on behalf of horses in her blog, and in her Boston Animal Advocacy column. Maureen is an avid supporter of the efforts of Americans Against Horse Slaughter, and she is the proud “mom” of a retired Premarin mare, Hayley, whom she adopted from Bay State Equine Rescue in Oakham, MA.


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Stress is Killing the Captive Calico Wild Horses

Posted: April 19, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Maureen Harmonay – Equine Advocacy Examiner

Wild Horse Advocate Details the Reasons for the Triple Digit Deaths

Terrorized from the very beginning, the Horses of the Calico BLM Roundup - Photo by Kurt Golgart/Bureau of Land Management

Day after day since the beginning of the “gather” of the wild horses who once freely roamed Nevada’s Calico Mountains, the BLM has reported the deaths of the horses who were forced into its clutches.  Though the Gather Daily Updates report that the total of equine lives lost as a direct result of this roundup is 79, a truer mortality tally is more than 90, in addition to the dozens of in utero foals who perished through miscarriages or as a consequence of the demise of the dams.

And while the BLM has variously categorized the reasons for these deaths as “a failure to adjust to a change in feed,” “hyperlipemia,” “metabolic failure,” “poor body condition,” and “colic,” among others, the real cause can be summed up in one word:  “stress.”  We’ve known this intuitively, and now, thanks to a timely and important paper by Dr. Bruce Nock, it can be proved.

Writing under the auspices of Liberated Horsemanship, Dr. Nock has just published Wild Horses: The Stress of Captivity, which lucidly and persuasively explains why stress is the physiological raison d’etre for virtually all of the maladies and illnesses that the Calico mustangs have suffered and endured.  Dr. Nock doesn’t pull any punches, asserting:

“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say, as ‘gathers’ are routinely done in the USA, if a wild horse doesn’t die straight off from the immediate devastation and commotion, it compromises him/her physically and mentally, putting him on a path of accelerated deterioration.”

It all starts with the fight-or-flight reaction, triggered at the first sound of the menacing helicopter as it swoops and dives in an effort to scare peacefully grazing herds into a full stampede.  But the stress-stimulated hormones in the captive horses’ bodies continue to circulate long after they have stopped running, igniting a chain of chemical reactions and events that soon spiral out of control.

The high percentage of Calico mares who miscarried was a predictable consequence of conducting the roundup at a time when so many of them were in various stages of late-term gestation.  According to Dr. Nock:

“Long-term projects, like reproduction, are put on hold when the fight-or-flight reaction is active.  Expending resources to sustain and maintain a fetus, for example, just isn’t physio-logical if it seems like you are about to die.  It isn’t surprising that the BLM reported 20-30 ‘miscarried’ in association with the Calico Complex Gather.  In addition to the miscarriages, one wonders how many fetuses were resorbed by mares?”

Dr. Nock also addresses the BLM’s contention that many of the newly captive horses perished because they were not adapting to a change of diet.  Through February 1st, at least 18 of the Calico horses “have died or have been euthanized as acts of mercy because they were not adapting to being fed grass hay in a domestic setting,” according to a report issued by BLM veterinarian Dr. Richard Sanford.  Not so, says Dr. Nock:

“Let’s be honest.  It has nothing at all to do with the hay and probably little to do with the change of diet.  It’s about being scared out of their wits and the sympathetic tone shutting down processes related to appetite and digestion.”

Confinement itself is a major source of stress to these formerly free-ranging horses whose very survival depends on their ability to escape danger:

“Imagine how stressful confinement in an unfamiliar place must be to a species who depends on running for survival and who instinctively avoids places where they might get trapped.

On top of that, there’s the social unrest from confinement in close quarters with unfamiliar horses.  And don’t overlook the importance of such things as the loss of or separation from lifelong herd mates, companions and family.  It is egocentric to think such things are only important to our species. . .

The ability to control one’s own movement and activity is as important to horses as it is to us.  The loss of control, on the other hand, is a powerful psychological stressor.  In fact, it is a key factor in determining whether situations, events and circumstances are stressful and mentally or physically damaging.”

Dr. Nock’s analysis also explains how the stress of captivity can cripple a wild horse’s immune system, making him much more susceptible even to “natural stressors, like severe weather conditions, biting insects, and so on.”

The long-term prognosis for the Calico refugees currently being held at the Fallon, Nevada feedlot is not promising, as Dr. Nock sees it:

“I don’t think it is too far out of line to say nearly everything about captivity is probably stressful to one degree or another to wild horses, especially when it begins with the traumatic experience of a gather.

It is extremely detrimental to their long-term health and soundness.”

(This article is one of many in a long string of investigative stories  written by Maureen Harmonay.  Learn more about this talented writer by clicking HERE)

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In BLM “Speak” One plus One Wild Horse equals Zero Horses

Posted: April 10, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Op-Ed by R.T. Fitch - Author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart“

The BLM is Clueless about Numbers of Wild Horses

At the conclusion of the bloody helicopter stampede that was called the Calico Round-up we reported that the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) math was highly suspect when it came to accounting for the number of wild horses that were actually on the range.  On the day the disastrous round-up ended, February 5th 2010, I wrote the article, “BLM’s Wild Horse Numbers Just Don’t Add Up” highlighting the fact that the number of horses in the Calico complex reported by the BLM pre-roundup didn’t match with what they reported post-roundup.

“The BLM’s 2/5/2010 press release states that they stripped the 550,000 acre complex of 1,922 native wild horses.  They now estimate that 600 remain alive and free.  The math indicates that there must have been a total of approximately 2,400 wild horses on the complex prior to the round-up.

Yet the BLM’s original plan stated that they had intended to gather approximately 3,000 wild horses, releasing 380 back to a remaining population of 220 which would leave 600 free in the complex.  But that equation would mean that the total population, prior to round-up, would have been around 3,200.  That leaves a difference of 800 horses from what actually occurred and what the BLM had proposed to do.  Where are the missing 800 horses?”

Long time equine welfare advocate John Holland, President of the Equine Welfare Alliance likewise stated on 02/06/2010:

“The question in my mind is just how many horses they originally intended to leave in Calico and how many are truly still there.  Despite what the press has been saying, the original schedule called for gathering 3,186 and returning only 380.  No matter how you work the numbers, there were far fewer horses there than they thought.  If you believe they left 600, then the population was only 1,922 + 600 or 2,522, so they could not possibly have gathered 3,186.

If the original plan had indeed been to leave 600, then they thought the population was 3,186 +600 -380 or 3406.”

Just this week, respected writer Maureen Harmonay picked up the ball in an article titled “The numbers just don’t add up for the captive Calico mustangs”:

“Let’s look at the numbers.  The Gather Daily Updates list the total number of deaths as 76.  That’s wrong.  At least 91 horses have died, including one newborn foal who perished shortly after he was born on January 18th.  He wasn’t “gathered” as an individual, but was carried into the Fallon feedlot in utero.  His death deserves to be counted, but for the purpose of determining how many horses were actually taken from the Calico Herd Management Areas (HMAs), he shouldn’t be included.  Using the BLM’s own daily reports, I can count 90 live wild horses who have died since the roundup began.

I went back to December 30th, the first day that any deaths were recorded.  On that date, the gallant old mare, whom Elyse Gardner named, La Belle, was separated from her corralled herd members, loaded into a truck, driven away, and shot.  She was the first of the Calico Mountain mustangs to perish as a direct result of the BLM’s cruel interference in these free-roaming herds.

From that day forward, I simply kept a running tally of all of the horses that the BLM itself admitted had died or been “euthanized.”  I added the mare who was reported as having died on March 6th by HSVMA veterinarian Dr. Eric Davis, but who was never listed as a fatality by the BLM.  It’s clear that there are other never-reported deaths; we just don’t know how many.  But I can document the demise of at least 90.

When adoption preparation began on February 18th, at least 62 horses had already died.  When it ended, on April 3rd, a total of 1851 horses had been freeze-branded.  We can’t be sure how many of the horses who died after February 18th had been freeze-branded, but it seems possible–and even likely– that more than 1922 mustangs may have been helicopter-driven from the Calico mountains.”

This brand of “shoot from the hip” accounting is the sort of stuff that nightmares are made of.  We aren’t talking about JuJu Beans, dollars/cents or grains of sand, here. We are dealing with the lives of our living American icons that should never have been harassed, killed and imprisoned in the first place.  If businesses and private individuals all managed their finances using the same poor math and junk science that the BLM uses we would all currently be sitting around a campfire in loin cloths trying to figure out who had the longest spear.

The BLM is the agency that is charged with protecting (in BLMese that’s “manage”) our wild horses and the math they use to gauge the number of horses, present on their rightful land, is totally flawed.  Our horses can count better than this for crying out loud.  They know how many flakes of hay we are supposed to throw down, they can gauge if we have poured enough pelts in their feed buckets and if we come up a little short on the estimate, like the BLM, Terry and I get a look that says,

“Come on, you don’t think we are that stupid, do you?” 

And that’s my message to the BLM:

“You don’t REALLY think that the American public is that stupid, do you?”

This is simply more concrete evidence that the BLM has no idea how many wild horses are out there nor do they have a clue as to how many wild horses they have languishing in pens.  But one thing is for certain, they have many more in prison than roam free and that is a travesty that we cannot tolerate.

Tell your family, talk to your friends, speak with your co-workers about the horrible, bloody mess that the Obama administration’s BLM has gotten our wild horses into.  We must stop, suspend, cease and halt these brutal and misguided helicopter driven stampedes before all of the horses are ripped from the land and we have nothing but millions of cattle ruining the last of our western frontier.  (They are already out there, doing just that.)

Keep hammering at the Presidents phone number (202) 456-1111 then call Congress (202) 224-3121 and beseech, beg, plead, demand, cry out for a suspension of the bloodshed so that qualified, thoughtful individuals can interject sane comment into the calculations, numbers and condition of the land before we have lost everything.  

We MUST stop this before it is too late as for tens of thousands, it already is!

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