four legs good, two legs bad

In fact in the Argentine a foal born with undesirable conformation is immediately classified as livestock, as in meat and are raised as such. Also the mare that produced that foal is on thin ice, because if she does it again the next year she’s on her way to a Japanese or European dinner plate.

That’s why you’ll rarely find a horse in Argentina with incorrect conformation, as opposed to horses here in America where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a horse with pig-eyes, cow hocks, mutton withers, round fetlocks, etc.

You’re pissed-off because I illuminated reality for you and it hit a nerve.

In my life I’ve crossed paths with easily over 100 bleeding hearts like yourself and I’ve leaned to ignore them

Get a clue before you go bankrupt.

End of discussion.

The money behind this fiasco comes from the wife of T Boone Pickens. Land is bought and then the government pays the caretaker by the head to keep the horses. They are becoming very rich people these horse care takers.

Bullshit land bridge. The indians never saw a horse until the spainiards brought them over. The fossil records show the 2 foot tall eohippus, the horse forerunner, but they were never endemic to this continent.They are destroying the habitat for the natural animals already here,big horn sheep,elk,antelope etc.

Try to remember highschool.

Remember the land bridge that existed between the continents? Horses, fully evolved (not manipulated yet by man), crossed that land bridge to become the greatest ally to man. It built our cities, plowed our fields, fought our wars, entertained and endured with us and the history of man evolved.
It was re-introduced to this continent because Europeans came to forever change this landscape… of course with the use of his greatest ally, horse.
Some of them returned to their wild state and thrived because this is the environment that gave birth to Horse.

It currently exists in pockets… literally pockets… of our public land. It can thrive in conditions that are extreme.

Reality check.
BLM manages 262 million acres of public land. Horses currently reside in aprox. 10% of those areas. Areas designated by Congress to maintain these horses in their natural state.

Through poor planning and a lack of accountability by a public agency we currently find ourselves in a situation of “crisis” proportions where these horses (in the state mandated by law) are in real jeopardy.

There are solutions. However those solutions do not continue to put money into the pockets of the current list of contractors.

The propsed solutions by the same agency that created the problem continue to “hand on for dear life” to that same system of private contractors instead of utilizing any other potential solution.

You state this is your “rant.” You got that right in your comment.

The rant of a person who is ignorant of the reality of the decimation of wild horses to extinction by the DOI, BLM, Czar Salazar. it is estimated that the wild horses remaining on the range are from 18,000 to 30,000, depending on the BLM’s fantasy numbers of the day. However, there are approximately 8,000,000 cattle on the range…and growing. The Cattlemen are powerful and appear to have a monopoly on the BLM. More land is taken away from the wild horses FOR the cattle.

Please do more research to be informed, educated by scientific statistics/research/study, the BLM breaking the law… The BLM has been continuously reducing the wild horse population for decades, and the wild horses do not all go into captive BLM holdings. A great number surreptitiously go to the slaughter house.

Very “telling” of BLM plans for wild horses is a document obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this summer, drawn up by the BLM in secret meetings:

http://rtfitch.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/documents-reveal-blm-secret-plan-to-destroy-wild-horses/

http://www.animallawcoalition.com/horse-slaughter/article/968

Thank you for reading to be better informed.