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July 16, 2018Action Alert! Please Comment to Stop Cruel and Deadly Spaying of Wild Mares by the BLM and CSU
July 23, 2018Action Alert: House Passes 2019 Appropriations Bill that Calls for Sterilized Wild Horse and Burro Herds
Breaking News: On July 19, 2018 the House of Representatives passed a Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations Bill.
The Bill included an amendment by Representative Chris Stewart of Utah which authorizes the Bureau of Land Management to manage all wild horses and burros in non-reproducing or single sex herds, using surgical sterilization of wild horses and burros.
The BLM has been pushing for the sterilization of wild mares using a dangerous procedure called ovariectomy via colpotomy. It is invasive, high risk, and cruel and inhumane. In a study commissioned by the BLM in 2013 the National Academy of Sciences warned that the surgery was “inadvisable for field application” due to the risk of hemorrhaging and infection. According to that same report, castrating the stallions, which is another action the BLM wants to take, this will result in a “reduction in or complete loss of male-type behaviors necessary for maintenance of social organization, band integrity and expression of natural behavioral repertoire.”
In other words, sterilizing our wild horses will ultimately result in deaths, suffering, and the elimination of the wild behaviors that make our wild horses and burros wild. It will also ultimately result in their complete eradication from our public lands.
There is still time to contact your Senators to let them know that this amendment should not be in the final version of the 2019 Appropriations Bill.
The Senate version of the bill does not currently include this dangerous provision. The Senate version will be voted on soon, possibly next week. Then the differences between the two bills will be resolved during a conference committee. We must contact our Senators to make sure that this version of the Bill prevails.
Here is the House Bill: https://appropriations.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395385
Please contact your Senators today and tell them that you do not support the sterilization of our wild horses and burros and you want to maintain the protections of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. You want wild horses and burros to be manged humanely in the wild, on our public lands where they belong.
Contact Your Senators:https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
To find out more about Wild Horse Freedom Federation and our work to keep wild horses and burros wild and free on our public lands visit: www.WildHorseFreedomFederation.org
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How can this be legal? To injure and mame an animal especiually with no pain control or after care is purely sadistic. Anyone that could actually do this procedure to a living being needs to have psyciatric testing and counseling. The BLM needs to be dismantled and we must be able to vote in new men and women who would have the welfare of the living, wild horses and burros, at heart.
Please don’t let this happen we have got to fight them with all we have
Please call your Senators.
Pls dart these mates instead please as a taxpayer and concerned citizen I am asking u not to do this surgical procedure..
Mrs Victoria Smith
“ DISGUSTING & ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY “
THERE ARE OTHER MEANS OF STERILIZATION
THAT ARE MORE HUMANE”!! I’LL NEVER VOTE
FOR ANY POLITICIAN THAT VOTES FOR THIS
ATROCIOUS PRACTICE “!!
Have emailed both senators once again! I sure hope all these people who comment here & on other blogs also call or contact their representatives too. Writing even a small personal message might make all the difference. We all know that the form letters – no matter how many people sign & send them – are all counted as one single letter! If we dont make it known how we feel about this kind of animal abuse and mistreatment – our reps will assume we dont care!
How can you agree to this Barbaric way of Sterilization. Wild Horses are part of our American History who gave you the right to play God and to Torture and Abuse them.
this is just plain stupid this cant happen to them especially if you do it the way you want to. you should use the right procedures if this happens like you would on regular horses. with sedation. the blm and everyone that passed this don’t have the horses and burros well -being in mind. they do not care at all pisses me off maybe it should happen to them eh
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON WAY TOO LONG!! UNTIL RECENTLY I HAD NO IDEA WHAT HAD BEEN HAPPENING TO THESE BEAUTIFUL HORSES????.
.I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN UT. I LOVE THESE HORSES!!!! THEY ARE MY HERITAGE…????.WE PAY THESE SO CALLED ELECTED TO MAKE AMERICA BETTER..THAT INCLUDES OUR LAND AND OUR WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS OUR HORSES TOO!!!!! SHAME ON YOU CHRIS STEWART…AND ALL THE OTHER TRUSTED POLITICIANS!!!!☹☹ I’LL CAMPAIGN AGAINST ALL OF YOU…..GOD PUT THESE HORSES ON THIS EARTH FOR A PURPOSE AND IT WASNT FOR YOU GREEDY PEOPLE TO USE THEM FOR CRUEL AND INHUMANE PURPOSES!!!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE COLD AND WICKED…????.AND YOU HAVENT HEARD THE LAST OF THIS.
..I M NOT DONE YET.. WE AREN’T DONE YET!!!!
Your Utah Representative Chris Stewart has been leading the charge to eradicate and sterilize our wild horses. He needs to be voted out of office.
please stop repeating cruelty actions
Just reading this causes enough pain and compassion for what these horses may experience. Just another way of making America Great Again. Ugh!
I think our government is totally corrupt and the BlM should be completely restaffed with people who care about the land and it’s inhabitants hopefully by people who cannot be bribed by the cattlemen’s association or other evil greedy bastards