Pryor Mountain's Wild Mustangs

Cloud and the wild horses of Montana's Pryor Mountains are world famous but fame it appears is not going to protect the herd from a drastic government round up planned to begin September 1st in their spectacular wilderness home.

There are currently only 190 wild horses (one year and older) living in the Pryor Mountains. The BLM plans to remove 70 of them, plus foals. According to the foremost equine geneticist, Dr. Gus Cothran, 150-200 adult horses are needed in the herd to ensure their genetic diversity, which is vital to their long term survival.

These 70 horses would be placed in jeopardy. Any horses over 10 years of age can be bought directly by killer buyers and transported over the Northern border to Canadian slaughterhouses or south into Mexico. Younger horses not adopted would be put into government holding with 33,000 others that the BLM has removed from the wild and has proposed killing because they can no longer afford to feed them.

BLM cites poor range condition as the reason to remove the horses but abundant snow and rain for the past two and a half years has produced wonderful range conditions according to all who have visited Cloud and his herd. The unique Pryor Mountain wild horses are descendents of the Lewis and Clark horses who were stolen by the Crow Indians in the early 1800's. They can be traced further back to the horses brought over with the Spanish Conquistadors in 1500.

For more information, please visit www.thecloudfoundation.org

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[TheWildhorses10]

rimrockhumanesociety -

Did you just take this video recently - could you please post the date(s) of the video for us?

[rimrockhumanesociety]

These pics were taken on 7/17/09

[nameofthepen]

Ancient Spanish blood running through those veins.

Anyone familiar with Spanish horses knows they are the nobility of equines. One of these small, modest-appearing horses has the strength of 10, the courage of a lion, and the devotion to a master rivaling that of the best of dogs.

So, of course our insane gubmint wants to murder them. What's new?

[rtfitch]

Thanks, Sandy, for the up close and personal view of Cloud's Herd. What you have recently filmed, might be our very last view of them as they should be.

[Inoryuki]

mustangs are to smart to keep as pets :/ mine figured out how to unlock the gates and decided to let the herd loose...

[ponyfriendsjf]

what a beautiful animals and that music is perfect for the movie

nice maded!!!

[Cassattackred12]

Beauty. Simple pure honesty beauty. I really don't understand how we could do such a thing to them.....

[conrocapub]

Read about these Pryor Mountain mustangs of ours, THE LAST GOOD HORSE by David Martin Anderson (novel was just released), then, you'll really understand the slaughter of these majestic creatures that took place during the 1930s.

[conrocapub]

Check out author David Martin Anderson's interview on YouTube about his new book, THE LAST GOOD HORSE, if you want the REAL STORY of what happened to our mustang herds during the 1930s. All the action takes place at Montana's Pryor Mountain. Awesome!

[site4pets]

thepetitionsite(dot)com/1/stop­-2011-roundup/

Sign this free petition to hold off the 2011 roundup and stop the catching of wild horses, the BLM sends most to slaughter houses. the BLM gets paid to remove wild horses and let people graze there cattle and sheep

[simpson7829]

@TheWildhorses10

What is the latest on the Pryor Herd namely Clouds family.

[FireFlyHorzey]

Such a beatufull vid, the same is happening to the NZ Kaimanawa horses. They are found only in the Kaimanawa mountains. Wild horses are just so gougous, it's horrible to think how much stress and harm we do to these majestic creatures

[vendeda01]

My Mustang is from Pryor Mountain and is still wild BUT will let me ride her and she does what ever I want BUT doesn't with any one els. I guess NOW I know where her stubbornness comes from JUST look at these beautiful creatures. Cant believe people want to kill them just so they can get rich.

[Battlehorsey]

Aww the poor horses, I wish there was somthing we could do against the government's roundups and all. (Is there? I don't really know.) They sure are gorgous! Nice footage.