by Debbie Coffey ~ Director of Wild Horse Affairs at Wild Horse Freedom Federation
PART 1 of a series on BLM and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Experimentation on Wild Horses and Burros
(Warning: the photos below may be disturbing to some)
At the upcoming BLM National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting, the board will likely bring up the subject of the field spaying of wild mares.
It is important to keep in mind that the BLM and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (also a Department of the Interior agency) are partnering in EXPERIMENTING on our wild horses (and, in the case of the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, “feral” horses). This BLM advisory board was even discussing tubal ligation for mares (which seems to have been in trials in 2004).
Below is a presentation seemingly by LEON PIELSTICK, DVM, the veterinarian who has been conducting experiments on the field spaying of mares, and it shows (possibly Leon Pielstick himself) spaying a mare at a wild horse sanctuary. There are also photos of a wild stallion during a vasectomy procedure, presumably at Sheldon.
Your tax dollars are paying for this experimentation.
SOURCE: POPULATION CONTROL IN WILD HORSES, Leon Pielstick, DVM
(this is a portion of the presentation of an ovariectomy with chain ecraseur via colpotomy incision)
(And the presentation states this:)
However, other veterinary sources are concerned about a high incidence of peri-operative complications, including post-operative myopathy/neuropathy, wound infections, wound dehiscence, eventration, vaginal adhesions, peritonitis, post-operative pain and hemorrhage. Also, looking at the 3rd bullet point above, others estimate the prep time for surgery to be 10 minutes for standing sedation, 10-15 minutes for epidural anesthesia, and 10 minutes for the aseptic preparation. And the part about this being a “One time treatment, no need for further round ups” – wouldn’t “no need for further round ups” mean doing this to more than a few mares and could this create a NON-REPRODUCING HERD?
(Here is a portion of the presentation showing a vasectomy)
Do you think this is what Congress had in mind when they passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act of 1971? Or, do you think these government agencies are running amuck?
Please attend the BLM National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board Meeting at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia on Sept. 9-11, 2013, and be a voice for our wild horses. Remember, the BLM has only allotted a limited time on only one day for public comment, which is Sept. 10th from 3-5 p.m.
Sources:
http://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.eli/files/8-%20Wild%20Horse%20Population%20Control.pdf
http://www.vetstream.com/equis/Content/Technique/teq00448
Information about the BLM National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/august/nr_08_09_2103.html
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Categories: Horse News, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Please help our wild horses before its to late!
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Non sterile surgical procedures? Returning the horses to BLM, are they marked so they can tell which had surgery? Why not set up a syrgical area with the horses that were captured???
I think these men think they are sooo smart.. so smart that they are not reaching out for additional advice!!!
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this shouldn’t be done at all.
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Back when this was done to the Sheldon horses, there were at least 30 wild mares found dead for having complications with this surgery. Now they want to pass these operations off as routine. Will this happen to others now? Horrific to our wild ones and disgusting as being done by sadistic humans.
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Hi Chris, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all of the documentation on all of the field spaying of mares. You are incorrect that 30 mares died. I don’t have the FOIA documentation at my fingertips at the moment to give you the exact number, but it wasn’t 30. Do you have sourced information for the number of 30 deaths? If so, I’d like to read it. Thanks.
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I’m disgusted that these organizations are allowed to continue this barbaric act! We the People are fed up with the government not only taking away OUR freedoms, but those of our wild animals! LEAVE THE WILD alone!! They deserve to be on the land way more than some cattle rancher. Make the cattle graze in specified areas and make the rancher pay for those areas to be re-stocked with seed. Leave the wild horse to nature and nature will provide/take care of them as it has for hundreds of years.
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It takes a psychopathic mentality to do this to sentient animals. A black soulless existence to find this acceptable. I condemn you and all you stand for, and one day you’ll find I am right.
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Horrible, absolutely Horrible!
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You bastards are no good , WE WILL DEFEAT YOU, YOUR ALL GOING TO HELL
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since animal cruelty is now a felony according to the FBI… where are they?
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BLM out of control as usual!!
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DISPICABLE
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