Sunday, May 30, 2010

"Emaciated Wild Horse Victim of BLM Abuse"

The Desert Independent

May 30, 2010
To the Editor:
Thank you for publishing this sad news. Awareness of these atrocities that occur to wild horses in roundups and holding pens is needed to help hold the BLM accountable. This article and the picture were heartbreaking, but necessary. These roundups and the holding pens are doing things to these beautiful wild animals that wouldn't dare be done to other protected wild animals. Old, young and pregnant horses are run to death by low flying helicopters. Others become so lame that they are put to death. I've heard accounts where the horse's hoof walls were destroyed and all that was left was bone and nerve.

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