“The potential for our worse possible nightmare to become a reality is knocking on our barn door, as I type, and we need to stop it and stop it NOW!
Below is a video plea from our good friend, Ginger Kathrens and both myself and Wild Horse Freedom Federation stand shoulder to shoulder with Ginger and The Cloud Foundation in urging you to take action in an effort to block the possibility of our wild equines being slaughtered.
When I snapped this photo on my iPhone I had the shutter sound activated and I was promptly reminded by Ginger to deactivate it as you can see it stimulated Ohanzee’s curiosity, big time. Thanks for the insight, Ginger.
Ginger’s video is especially poignant for me as her equine guest is Ohanzee, the son of Cloud. I was fortunate enough to be with Ginger when we first came upon Cloud and his newborn son on a beautiful May day in 2014. We spent several days watching, videoing and photographing the youngster while in the evenings we struggled to come up with a name for him.
After much research and a few sips of adult beverages we arrived at the perfect selection which was Ohanzee, a Sioux name meaning ‘Shadow’ which was just what he looked like.
Ohanzee become my totem and further sealed my conviction to fight for those who cannot speak for themselves so for him to be featured with Ginger further lights my fire to do what is right, just and whatever is necessary to ensure the future safety, health and well-being of our federally protected wild horses and burros.
Please call the White House and voice your concerns, although I do not believe this to be a premeditated assault on our wild equines it can and will turn into a death sentence for the horses and burros if we don’t stop the bean counters from pulling the trigger…Now!
Please act, this is your opportunity to make a difference. Thank you, my Friends.” ~ R.T.
“The remainder of the funding decrease will be achieved by reducing gathers, reducing birth control treatments, and other activities deemed inconsistent with prudent management of the program. The long-term goal is to realign program costs and animal populations to more manageable levels, enabling BLM to reorient the WHB program back to these traditional management strategies.”
The BLM contends that the horses on the range exceed the ridiculously low national AML of 26,700 by over 40,000 animals. There are over 40,000 animals in long and short term holding. 80,000 could be killed if we, the American people do not speak up!
There has never been such a grave a threat to the existence of our wild horses as right now!
Use the links provided in the video to call the WHITE HOUSE, your U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, and your 2 SENATORS. We must flood and overload the phone lines with calls. This will take only 4 phone calls—probably 1 minute each.
Never has it been more important for you to speak up on behalf of the future of our wild horses and burros!
CALLING INSTRUCTIONS
1. Leave your name (spell it), and the town where you live
2. Give 2 or 3 short sentences on your explicit concerns for the preservation and protection of our wild horses and burros.
3. Give your name again and express thanks for the opportunity to give comments.
4. You will probably get a Voicemail—but that’s ok. These elected officials must understand how important this is to you, and phone calls are all logged. If 50,000 of The Cloud Foundation followers will call, that adds up to 200,000 phone calls to Washington DC!
Thank you! Now let’s all get to work and make those phone calls for our wild horses and burros.
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Categories: Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
This is being posted by many groups and advocates on FB, and I’m sickened by how many people are buying into the BLM’s rhetoric that wild horses are overpopulated and starving. Many people are also under the false assumption that wild horses, with their “out of control numbers” are decimating the lands. It’s depressing to see how many people actually believe all this.
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Under several federal acts, including FLPMA/NEPA, there are environmentally sound solutions to re wilding the warehoused wild horses and burros. Amending the resource managment plans to include the 1971 under-inventoried migratory ranges/water sources. There are hundreds of thousand acres in the 11 western states that qualify as critical habitat for this special status protected species. USFWS is just as responsible and liable for mis management of a public trust.
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“Thunderclap” effort underway here:
“Please help our friends at the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign in this important effort:
This is it: Your chance to stand with tens of thousands of citizens in defense of America’s iconic mustangs and burros. Sign up today to make your voice heard!
On May 30, our collective voices will rise up on social media to take a stand against mass roundups and slaughter of these cherished animals. As a champion for these national icons, you won’t want to miss the chance to join in this groundbreaking campaign.
Only the power of the people can save our national heritage animals,. Spreading the word is absolutely critical, and now it couldn’t be easier!. We’re using a platform called Thunderclap. It’s a tool that allows people to pledge a tweet or Facebook post that will be posted along with thousands of other supporters on May 30. Think of it as a massive flash mob on social media with a collective message calling on the world to Stand With America’s Wild Bands.
It’s completely secure and will post a single, one-time message on your behalf. If all of our supporters take part, we can reach millions of people on May 30 when the message is blasted out.
You can sign up to help here.”
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Thank you RT for sharing–nothing will make a bigger difference than thousands of phone calls jamming the phone lines in Washington. Yesterday, the White House asked the caller, “What’s up with all these calls about the wild horses?” It’s working. They log phone calls and when it disrupts the office to take and log all these calls, they take notice. Same is true for Senate and Congressional offices, as well. We can make a difference.
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I don’t know if is due to this resent news or not, I just saw this this morning.
http://americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_112/wild_horses.htm
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The phone calls to Representatives & Senators are really important. Thanks for your beautiful intro to Ohanzee & Ginger’s plea, RT. The lives and very survival of our wild horse and burro herds are at state. Please also sign on NOW to the American Wild Horse Campaign’s “I’m With the Band” (for May 30 release) as noted by IcySpots above.
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