Comments on: What BLM Roundups Look Like

By: Dr. Regina

Dr. Regina — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:05:15 +0000

Charlie,
I can’t understand for the life of me how some anthropomorphic jerks think that humans are needed to intercede on everything. Nature existed far long that we humans have. Nature has a balance that is far more sophisticated than we are. We are needed for anything on Earth except to destroy it. One of your posts discussed the starvation and habitat destruction etc. from the horses overbreeding. Did you ever consider a spay and neuter program to remedy the problem? Or is selling them for dog food more humane? Come on! Think about what your saying, man! I have a brother in law whose a hunter. He says that killing deer helps to prevent them from starving to death, but I notice that he never kills the weak starving ones. He kills the ones with the biggest racks for his trophy room. That’s what your arguments remind me of. You also said that you own a “wild” horse. How ludicrous! Guess what…you can’t “own” a horse and still call her/him “wild”. That’s the definition of wild…you can’t be owned. For the record, I would welcome a horse to graze on my organic (no pesticides, no fertilizer, just plain ol’ manure based, great big) lawn any day!
Dr. Regina

By: rancher gal

rancher gal — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:32:22 +0000

I have a really good friend and her dad and her are both ranchers and i help with it. not all ranchers want the land! We want to help the wild horses if we could we would buy all the wild horses from the round up and put them on are land and let them run free where no one can take them! But you are right them blm people just care about money and not the horses. If i had my way i would treat the round up people the way they treat the horses.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:37:22 +0000

@Pat in Wyoming, wheres the documentation of 2 million at the turn of the century? Or do you not have documentation but instead you counted them yourself? Please enlighten me on where this figure came from because after having trained a wild mustang myself and staying in contact with the BLM, I certainly never heard of it. @Jazzed up – the caps does nothing to your statement. You say the herds will handle themselves? Starvation is more humane than being captured? Yes, unfortunatly some mustangs break their legs, some cut themselves to pieces, some honesly go crazy, but a death by being put down comes alot faster than death by starvation. @Nini, seventeen year olds can do things just as well as adults, for goodness sakes, you are (were considering this post is atleast a year later than when you posted)less than one year from being an adult. Yes, I recognize my post is quite later than the others, however I hope that anyone who comes across this thread may not be tricked into believing your lies as a result of being misinformed.

By: Duv12

Duv12 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:48:41 +0000

In reply to CG. @CG: Who exactly do you think is rounding up these horses? Joe Blow the local farmer? It's illegal to harass and round up the wild horses so who the heck else would it be?

By: Duv12

Duv12 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:43:33 +0000

Why don’t they geld the Studs? That would solve everyones problems. Then when the little colts grow up old enough to bred then let them breed, get the mares pregnant then geld them, or wait a year or two then geld them. There has to be a solution other then ripping these families of horses apart and taking them off the land and not letting them stay free. What I find hard to believe is that the public is constantly told these horses are starving and need to be rounded up so they don’t die but yet when they are gathered they are not starving and in most cases they are “fat”. Some herds don’t get gathered at all and for years and years and years the land supports them then allll of a sudden the BLM says they are starving and have to be rounded up. What all of a sudden they land stop growing or what? Give me a break. If the land can support the stupid cows it can support the horses, cattle destroy the land more then the horses do. Kill a few more cows and leave our Mustangs alone.

By: Pat in Wyoming

Pat in Wyoming — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:56:32 +0000

In reply to CG. There is DNA proof that wild horses were on this continent and that they migrated back over the Bering Straits to Europe 11-13,000 years ago. And the horses that were reintroduced here by the Spanish are of the same genetics. There were wild horses here before any of us. And the horses are wild now. They have been wild for hundreds of years here so they are not just someones horse that just got out of the fence. And you cannot eat all "our" beef the rest of us do not eat.

By: Pat in Wyoming

Pat in Wyoming — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:47:06 +0000

In reply to Charlie. At the turn of the century there were over 2 million wild horses on public land. Now there are less than somewhere between 15-30,000. If the horses could not manage themselves and would run out of food and water then why were there so many doing OK before? The only thing a mandmade intervention has done is decimate the herds to the point of extinction. It is when wild horses are fenced out of water or fenced in pastures on public land that they run out of food and water. Man is what makes tragedies for the wild horses when we interfere and only think of what is in it for us. Why can we not leave wild things alone and let them be wild and just enjoy them for that beauty? Why does everything have to make money for us or is has no use? America's soul is starved and sick because it goes after things that are shallow and superficial and throws away and kills that which is priceless and irreplaceable. We need wild horses, for us, for our souls, to know that wild things will always be wild and free.