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249 likes, 22 comments - lelapena_wildmustangs on June 6, 2025: "Posted @withregram • @sandysharkeyphotography URGENT: This is of extreme importance!Up to 64,000 wild horses and burros currently in U.S. government holding facilities may be slaughtered!I s...
Here in Northern Nevada, we had a lady that ran a foundation for the mustangs. They would inject a three year birth control into certain mares. They would only get it once and then they were able to have babies after three years. It worked wonderfully. I need to find out what happened to her and the foundation. They don’t do this anymore. We are now having an overpopulation problem. Please pray that these horses find homes and peace, whatever that may be.
The group I know of that does the birth control darting is Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates. And Wild Horse Education (Laura Leigh) and Wild Horse Connection advocate for it.There is a really great fundraiser started today for mustang legal defense, it is in the fb page, Hope for the Wilds. Thanks so much for commenting. You and I probably know each other on fb and insty because of shared interests. God bless!
People seem to think Conservatives care less about compassion for animals than Liberals. I know this is not true. I have no problem being though of as a "bleeding heart", I have fought hard to end careless treatment and bureaucratic mercilessness my whole life, it is why I have a sanctuary. Wild horses and burros, have actual families and deep emotional ties. Heartbreaking the way it is all torn asunder. Thanks for reading.
They are thinning the herds in Wyoming also.
HLM....Horses lives matter
They do. So much, to so many.
In Wyoming they plan on rounding up over 3000 wild horses and its been put forth by the BLM. 🤬😥
https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/blm-decides-over-3-000-wild-horses-can-be-eliminated-from-wyoming-s-checkerboard/article_debd2253-ad1b-40df-851e-15d5a40fb36b.html
From the article: "The 2025 operation is expected to stretch for two months and target an estimated 3,624 horses in the Salt Wells Creek and Adobe Town herds. (The Great Divide Basin herd removal will follow in 2026.) This year’s operations are the largest horse-removal effort scheduled to take place across the West, according to the BLM’s tentative wild horse and burro gather schedule."
This is actually a good thing for the natural ecosystems that developed for thousands of years without the horse, but this is likely being done to support free range cattle in the end or other money making endeavors. It's most certainly not going to be done for the right reasons.
I have a Nevada Mustang. The prosoect of 3,000 horses needing homes is disastrous.
I can't tell you how many good horses, trained horses, are offered for sale right this minute, many facing shioment to Mexico for slaughter.
Cherished lines such as the all-American Lippitt Morgan are facing extinction because not enough people are breeding them.
There are too many horses needing homes, horses bred for riding.
The injectable birth control is a no-brainer!!
They literally sell them to China and other places.
I agree.
The horses need to be managed. It's not a matter of being cold hearted or soft hearted....it's about the carrying capacity and the affected environment.
Horses are actually incredibly disruptive to the ecosystems out west. They are not native and they displace native animals like mule deer and elk. I am of the opinion that they should be removed and not protected due to our feelings
After 500 years they like others have some claim on the range , but not the current extensive distructive one. Especially if the Buffalo are not allowed the same roaming courtesy.
This is the truth. We in the US love our horses, but these wild horses can, and will, breed and multiply to the point where the herds are sick and raggedy. They are wild symbols of the American identity, but they do need to be managed.
What can I say? I've heard of BLM programs before. They end in the slaughter of the horses and their rendering into horsemeat. Against the law in the U.S. to eat, but not in (e.g.) Mexico. Amazing animals that would better flourish under human care. If putting down a beloved horse is as close as I will get to euthanizing a dear relative---it will still be too damn close.
Ruidoso, New Mexico allows wild horses to run freely. All is good and looks beautiful until you or someone you love hits a horse in their car. Dead horse and hurt or dead family.
Put them on a large ranch behind a big beautiful fence. Sterilize most of them.