BLM Helicopter Stampede Contractor Out of Control, AGAIN!

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Sue Cattoor speaking to her "hurt feelings" on camera 9/9/09 - Photo by R.T. Fitch

Just like a bad dream the wife of Obama’s Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) helicopter, wild horse stampede specialist is back complete with all of her trumped up “look at me” and “I know wild horses” bull crap, or in this case, welfare rancher manure.  Sue Cattoor is now a multimillionaire due to the BLM’s blood lust for wild horses and it is not enough for her just to rake in the millions of tax payer’s wasted money she wants to be an internet sensation, also.  She attempted to grab the spotlight, and was allowed that effort by the BLM, during the needless Pryor Mt. roundup and then attacked the media when the BLM admitted that her company had run the hooves off from foals during the bloody Calico disaster.  17 horses dead, and counting, in the first days of the Owyhee debacle and she is back on the internet highway showing her backside and raising the ire of anyone who has ever made it past the third grade.
Inserted, below, is a comment that the Queen of Dead Horses made to the Elko Free Press listed in its entirety.  The entire mess is there but we have reserved the right to edit/comment in red during her rant.  From the roar of helicopter blades to the flapping of Sue Cattor’s lips, the poor horses just don’t get a break.
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I am co-owner of Cattoor Livestock Roundup, the contractor doing the Tuscarora roundup. ( Sue, honey, the word is out and even Judge Hicks knows that it is NOT  just one roundup as you and the BLM would like us to believe.  It’s really three different areas that you are raining terror down upon but it’s just more fun to lump it all together so as to confuse the public, ain’t it?)
While Laura Leigh, Ginger Kathrens, Stephanie Boyles and others are sitting in their air-conditioned offices drinking bottled water and filing appeals, contacting news media and calling for a moratorium to stop all roundups, these wild horses that they are so worried about are getting very thirsty. (Here’s the deal, sweetheart, Laura is out in the desert trying to get to your trap site as ordered by a federal judge.  She is going to document your nonsense if the BLM ever follows the law so she is not in any AC wonderland.  Ginger has been camping out doing what you allege she never has done for the past 16 years, observing and documenting wild horse behavior {you ever done that?} Can’t answer for Ms. Boyles but even the likes of myself just spent a day repairing a fence line for the safety of our…what would we call them, er, hmmm,…Horses, you big bag of air and I did enjoy a sip of water from a garden hose.  You really think that you are special, don’t you?)
They say we should not be gathering — foals are too young — it is too hot — lots of acreage for the horses, and so on. They would, I guess, rather just let the horses die of thirst out here on the Nevada desert.  (Maybe we should remove the private cattle that are ruining our public lands, you numbskull.  Overall the average is about 50 cattle to 1 blinking wild horse and in the instance debated here the horses water is fenced off by the welfare ranchers and YOU know it.  So your harebrained idea of rescuing the horses is to stampede the thirsty creatures with one of your idiot helicopters across the desert in one of the hottest months of the year.  What sort of upside down form of thinking is that?  Your ignorance is stunning.)
First of all, let me say on Saturday we gathered 228 head of wild horses, so we saved over 200 head. (Head?  Oh yeah, I would have said horses but you always use the term “head” as horses are considered to be livestock, just like cattle, to you.  So “head” is your primeval term.  Gosh, just think, if you weren’t around there would have been 228 horses that could have seen the sunset last Saturday.  But you sleep well knowing that you ended the lives of more horses in one day than most reputable equine rescues save in a month.  You are just so very sweet, aren’t you?)
Second, the foals are not just newborn, most are early spring foals. (Oh, that’s good to know, thanks.  You aren’t just terrifying newborns but also foals who are only a few months old.  Didn’t 3 of them die last Saturday, Sweet!)
Third, the helicopter pilot did not stampede the wild horses for miles over rough terrain. The pilot slowly herded the horses to the trap. It was early in the morning and cool. (Give me a break, I have seen you in action as has the rest of the free world.  That’s why you are frantically trying to complete this mess before Laura gets there and can document the truth.  Seems that you herded the horses very slowly, right at the end, at the Pryor Mountain’s Press Day but once the press left and you were stuck with just we AC loving, bottled water engorged equine advocates you ran the living crap out of the horses.  Didn’t run their hooves off like you did at Calico but you sure rendered the bulk of the babies lame.  All of that was so very kind of you.)
Fourth, this roundup was originally scheduled to start on July 1. It was delayed mostly because of the actions of the anti-gather people.  (Always have to blame someone else, don’t you.  Not an ounce of accountability resides in your soul, just that craggy, withered index finger pointing somewhere other than at the mirror.  You are a mess.)
So, for 10 days the ponds were quickly drying up and the horses were running out of water. Now the reservoirs and seeps in the Star Ridge and Dry Lake Pastures are all dry. The horses on Star Ridge have access to the Owhyee River but only in one place down a very steep trail. The Owhyee River runs thru kind of a miniature grand canyon. Some of the older bands probably are going to the river but most do not know where it is and are afraid to go down in the canyon.  (Gosh, the horses have been there hundreds and hundreds of years but now they have suddenly contracted a serious case of stupid and can’t even find where water is.  It must be wonderful thinking that you are bringing so much joy to the lives of the wild souls who have been around for centuries without your wisdom.  You sure are smart, Sue…gotta hand it to ya.)
The BLM is hauling water to the reservoir, and we are hopeful that the wild horses will find this water while we wait for the judge to decide if we can gather these wild horses and get them on water. The Dry Lake horses can access the Desert Reservoir. But when wild horses are short of water they tend to band up in large bands. Then they all go to water at once. The lead horses sneak down to the river or reservoir and get a drink. They then come back through the waiting horses and often everyone follows the lead horses and some do not get a drink. I have seen this happen trying to capture wild horses by water trapping. Water trapping is a very cruel way to capture wild horses.  (Why don’t you simply go back home to Utah and then we would have the BLM remove the cattle fencing from around our publicly owned water holes so that the horses can have access just like they have since the beginning of time?  Would that be so difficult?  It would mean that you would not be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of honest people’s money but then again, don’t you have enough of our money already?  Just go away.)
The special interest groups are putting the blame on the BLM and the ranchers and us as the contractor. They got the Calico Roundup delayed last winter for a month and when we gathered we captured some very poor horses that later had trouble adjusting to feed. Now because of this delay we have lost horses from dehydration and water intoxication and the remaining horses are getting very thirsty. (The whining and finger pointing is getting old.  You are really, really digging when you publicly act like you really care about the horses.  How ironic, the very instrument of the wild horses suffering is proporting to be their savior.  I think I am going to barf.)
If only the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Specialist could just do their job, which is to manage the wild horses, there would always be lots of healthy wild horses out on the range. (Give me a break, the BLM could not manage their way out of a wet, paper bag let alone treat wild horses in a humane manner.  Not only can’t they count they are so sold out to big time special interests that they have fully lost sight of their mission and the law.  And you, the contractor, are right there in the middle of the mix violating our constitutional rights while you stuff your pockets full of our money.  That’s what it is all about isn’t it?  Money!  Both with the BLM and with you, neither of you give a gnats ass about the horses and you will concoct lies and untruths just to justify your skewed position and opinion.  All of you lost your way a long time ago and between yourself and the BLM the truth now means what you want it to be on an hourly basis.)
The time for the truth and accountability is now, the public wants to know and you can no longer hide.  We are there because we care about the horses, we are concerned about the future of our public lands and we surely want to have a say over how our money is being spent and one thing is for certain, we do not want our money to be spent on you.  Go home.