Wild Mustang roundup and relocation by Niki2

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Wild Mustang roundup and relocation

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Friday, January 1, 2010 04:37
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:31 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I watched "Hidalgo" recently, so this one caught my eye. Thirty million dollars for refuges for the horses they move...one woman remarked that rather than moving them East, maybe they should think about moving the commercial ranching and farming somewhere else...made me wonder...?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/12/30/schiavone.wild.horse.ro
undup.cnn

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:31 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Obama asked to halt his wild-horse massacre in Nevada, Alpo outraged
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/dec/24/obama-asked-to-halt-wild-h
orse-roundup-in-nevada/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009
101303923.html

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Friday, January 1, 2010 4:37 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Horses sure are pretty. However, they're not native to the Americas, having been brought here from Europe from the 16th century on. The 'wild' horses are ones that escaped or were released, so they don't actually have 'native' habitat here. They're less native in the U.S. than humans. They have few natural predators, so tend to breed until they overfill their range, eating the food that real native species such as prong-horn antelope and mule deer need to survive. There aren't enough folks interested in owning a wild horse to adopt them all. The alternative to relocation is culling, so maybe moving them somewhere they can live isn't a bad thing.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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