Wild Horses To Be Captured in Lyon County, Nevada and Sent to Slaughter!

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This video is of a few of the bands of wild horses in Lyon County Nevada that the State of Nevada is capturing and removing from the Open Range. Supposedly this is because of horse/vehicle collisions, but those of us who have lived here for many, many years know it is just another ploy coming from the private interest factions, in this case, the cattle ranchers, trying to get every, single wild horse eradicated off the range even as they are getting ready to turn their cattle out for winter grazing from November-May. Every year, we have many, many cow/vehicle collisions on our highways, but the "Open Range law" is always cited in that since Nevada is an Open Range state, the ranchers are never at fault for their cows getting hit because motorists are supposed to pay attention and watch for cattle grazing with no fences keeping them from crossing, or even lying down, on our highways. There is also the law that states if a private land owner does not want the cattle or horses on their property, they must fence them out. So applying the Open Range law would mean that the State of Nevada should be required to fence the horses (and the cattle) off of the State of Nevada highways to prevent accidents. It does not mean that the wild horses should be captured because even though cattle get hit on the highways alot, they are never brought in because of these accidents. This is a racket, pure and simple, and unfortunately, we taxpayers are forced to pay several million dollars annually in subsidies for these "user-losers" to run their businesses with. After these horses are captured, and since the Bureau of Land Management refuses to take them under government protection even though the horses, just like the cattle, graze on BLM/public land, privately owned land and also State of Nevada land, these horses will only be held for 30 days and then are subject to being auctioned to the highest bidder at either the Fallon kill sale or at the Carson City Warm Springs prison, and it is usually the kill buyers who end up with the horses and they ship them to Canada and/or Mexico for slaughter. And make no mistake everyone, these ARE wild horses, not domestic horses turned loose, or horses that are the off-spring of domestic horses. We'd have to go back at least 60 years to find domestics turned loose to become wild horses, and as a horse trainer going on 40 years, these horses are wild, not trained, and as such, they need to be managed in the wild. They have more right to this range than private interest businesses corporate welfare ranchers cattle, so lets stop these factions in their tracks! With well over 3 MILLION cattle roaming on Nevada Open Range, but only approx. 12,000 wild horses on that very same range, it's time for us all to say "enough is enough" and stop these greedy cockroaches from sending our wild horses to slaughter for the sake of the almighty dollar!
Please folks, call, email and fax the Govenor of Nevada, the BLM, the Dept of Transportation, and the State of Nevada and tell them to stop the captures of these beautiful, healthy wild horses, and demand that they fence the horses (and cattle) off of our highways, and also install the special reflectors that scare wild horses away from on-comin and that have already been proven to work in vastly decreasing the number of horse/vehicle collisions.

Laura Bell
Silver Springs, Nevada
www.starwoodfarm.com
www.thestarlightsanctuary.org

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[shootinthetube]

Most of the horses being taken form the VIrginia Range are being bought & rescued by ~ Let' em Run Foundation. Kill buyers are chomping at the bit at the auctions however.

[laurabell09]

I know, I was at the last sale and rescued a poor 24 year old freezemarked Mustang mare who is lame. I was bidding against the killbuyer and had to chase the price up to almost $200. I saw the mare I rescued (I named her "Natasha"/Tasha for short) advertised as a free horse a month earlier, so am now posting warnings and alerts on Craigslist and my Facebook page to warn people giving their horses away for free or cheap they could end up at the kill sale being sold by the pound

[Cracard]

Very good expose of the corruption by certain vested interests who are victimizing these wonderful presences, the wild horses who contribute so much that is truly positive to our world and to our lives. By all means call NV Dept of Transportation, Nevada Governor Sandoval, NV Dept. of Agriculture, and BLM to stop this thick-skulled and stupid way of relating to these gifts to life!