Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Help Give a Wild Horse a Merry Christmas (Part 1)

I've been asked to forward this to fellow horse people.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Lamm" <willis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Help Give a Wild Horse a Merry Christmas


> PLEASE CROSS POST WHERE APPLICABLE.
>
> Hi, Folks, it's Willis again with an update on the Comstock Wild Horse
> Emergency Adoption Project.
>
> For anyone not familiar with this issue, the entire State of Nevada is a
> formally declared agricultural disaster area.  The Virginia Range
> Wildlife Protection Association has set up emergency feeding stations in
> the highlands but bands of horses are continually wandering down into
> civilized areas in search of food, getting struck by cars on highways,
> etc.  The state can't relocate these horses as there is no range right
> now that will support them, so they're all ending up in the state's
> "horse pound" where they are held for a limited time to allow authorized
> volunteer groups to try to place them.
>
> We've gotten 14 horses placed so far.  13 are still in private Foster
> Care and the Nevada Dept. of Agriculture has another dozen or so that
> need to be moved out soon.  (If they don't they'll run out their time
> and end up at the Fallon Livestock Sale where the only folks buying wild
> horses are the meat packers.)  The state is broke and is laying off
> employees so appropriating more state funds to extend these horses'
> holding times is not an option.
>
> We really don't want these animals to spend Christmas day in the holding
> pens waiting to be shipped off like cattle to the Texas meat packers.
>
> December is a difficult month to adopt wild horses what with all the
> family activities going on and folks spending money on family and
> friends.  But there is something you all can do to help.

> ":O) Willis
>
> (The attached image is from better times on the range.  If everyone
> pitches in we can get most of these animals through the present crisis
> to better times ahead.)


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