** BOSQUE BEAST – Placitas Wild Horses Rounded Up ** CORRECTIONS to their story will follow … HISTORY: The horses from the White band were rounded up by the BLM and taken to SW Livestock Auction. NM Against Horse Slaughter donated $1200 to assist with the bid that Gary Miles of Placitas Animal Rescue would place to bail them out. A known kill buyer placed a higher bid and took the horses. Gary, and Patience OF WHOA, scrambled to figure out what to do to get them back! Patience O’Dowd of WHOA was able to get the name of the KILL BUYER from the NM Livestock Board. Via Google we were able to get contact info and Patience of WHOA went to work on negotiations w/ the kill buyer to make a deal to get them back. They were then 3 hours away. She succeeded and more money was needed. The money was quickly raised by a woman who has started Placitas Wild. The horses were brought back to Albuquerque the next day and the exchange took place. The stallion had been gelded, a terrible hack job, and needed antibiotics, of which were obtained immediately! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The story said: “According to the Sandoval Signpost…” CORRECTION: Not a good place to get your news regarding Placitas wild horses. They are anti horse. The story said: “Miles himself has impounded some 60 horses… presumably for adoption.” CORRECTION: Sense when did horse rescue become known as “impoundment?” Many horse rescues in NM take in horses, they must be CONTAINED somehow. Impoundment? Main thing is he RESCUED them from SLAUGHTER by bidding on them and getting them the hell outta there! He also feeds them, waters them, has them seen by a DVM as needed, loves them, cleans up after them, has a team of volunteers to assist who dearly love the horses, and YES, they are advertised for strict adoption. “presumably for adoption.” What else? Did you think he was going to eat them? Some will luckily go to a new horse sanctuary. The story said: “… a nearby Indian Pueblo that are often cited as the original source of the problem.” CORRECTION: The wild horses are not from the pueblo. Do not get your news from the Sandoval Signpost. The pueblo is not a source of any problem. habitatforhorses.org/a-biologists-response-to-the-blms-wild-horse-problem/ HORSES HEAL THE LAND In spite of the BLM’s assertions, that it is striving to maintain a thriving natural ecological balance, its methods and the manner in which they are being carried out, are anything but natural, nor do they bring about any balance. Indeed, it is by these very methods, that the BLM uses, that the wild horses and burros, along with other aspects on the range are being thrown out of balance. Nature, through its own mechanisms, has been maintaining what the BLM have termed, a thriving natural ecological balance, for thousands of years, without the artificial methods of mankind. Indeed, it is mankind’s incessant belief that he must manage nature, which has thrown nature continually and consistently out of balance. This makes the wild horse and burro program of the BLM completely unnecessary. This program, however, is the very avenue by which the wild horses and burros will be raped from their legally designated lands, and nature destroyed. In conclusion, the wild horses and burros are a vital component to ecological balance out on the range lands of the west, the benefits of which are innumerable as opposed to cattle. The numbers of these beautiful animals must be dictated, however, by nature itself and not man, through its own mechanisms. Only in this manner will wild horse numbers be in balance with all other forms of wildlife, including those of the predators of the wild horses. The wild horses are just this, wild, and in the wild, no matter how harsh or how mild the conditions may be, is where their beauty and their benefits exist and can be experienced. The range lands that were once filled with vast numbers of wild horses, and other forms of wildlife, are now quickly dying due to the artificial efforts of our government. The rangelands, however, can easily sustain not only the wild horses and burros existing out there now, but also every one of those in holding facilities, which now number well over 40,000. The truth is that every one of those wild horses and burros in holding facilities, if released back to the areas from which they were taken, along with those in the wild, would help bring the balance back to the rangelands, a balance that is so very vital!! Robert C. Bauer Biologist rcbauer7@gmail
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:17:11 +0000
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