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August 8, 2018Action Alert! Please Comment to Stop Cruel and Deadly Spaying of Wild Mares by the BLM and CSU
The BLM is Planning to Experiment On and Spay Wild Mares with an Outdated, Cruel and Deadly Procedure in Partnership with Colorado State University
By Carol Walker
The BLM proposes to work with USGS and CSU to evaluate the safety and complication rate of using overiectomy via colpotomy on wild mares from the Warm Springs Herd Management Area and also purports to study wild mare and band behavior once the spayed mares are treated and returned to the range.
In 2016 we commented and sent letters and stopped this incredibly dangerous, cruel, barbaric and inhumane outdated procedure from being used on wild mares. The BLM is back at it again and even has the incredible nerve to pretend that this will study “behavior” of the wild mares after they have been experimented upon. In order to do an actual research study this means they would have to study the mares BEFORE their ovaries are removed – and they have not done that. How can you compare behavior when you did not study it before? Actual research is completely beyond the BLM.
Doing this procedure in filthy holding facility with no way to sterilize the surroundings ensures that risk of infection and death are high. When spaying is done on domestic mares it is done at a veterinary hospital it is done in completely sterile surroundings, not in a filthy holding facility or out in the field as the BLM plans to do.
100 wild mares, most at various stages of pregnancy, already stressed by being rounded up with helicopters and taken from their foals, families and homes are going to be subject to the veterinarian inserting an arm into the mare’s vaginal cavity, making blind incisions, then inserting a long metal rod with a chain attached to one end which crushes and rips out the ovaries. Fatal risks include bleeding from lateral arteries, hemorrhaging, intestinal trauma, fetal abortion and evisceration. Here is a link to a video prepared by Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of the Cloud Foundation: https://vimeo.com/274567297
Here is a document written by respected veterinarian Don Moore, DVM of Colorado about this spaying procedures:
“This type of trial and error butchery is a violation of the least feasible management clause of the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Mass experimental surgeries performed under these conditions outlined in the proposal, amounts to negligence and abuse. I believe experiments such as this proposal are unethical, inhumane and unwarranted. Any veterinarian(s) who would perform these experiments is in violation of the oath taken as a graduating veterinarian, “above all else, do no harm”. If a veterinarian in private practice performed these procedures in the manner described in this document they would most certainly be reported to and disciplined by the regulatory board of that state. Discipline would likely mean suspension of that veterinarian’s license to practice in that state.”
To read his comments in full, go here: https://www.wildhoofbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DonMooreCommentsOregonSpayProposal.pdf
There is no question that wild mares should never be treated this way, and the BLM must be stopped. They intend to use this gruesome experiment, no matter the outcome, as a template for the sterilization and ultimately the eradication of all our wild horse herds in the American West, on our public lands.
Please comment on the BLM’s plan by July 30 and cover the following points, using your own words:
-Tearing out internal organs from a highly stressed wild mare violates the veterinarian’s oath: “to use my scientific knowledge and skills for the benefit of society through the protection of animal health and welfare, the prevention and relief of animal suffering, the conservation of animal resources, the promotion of public health, and the advancement of medical knowledge.”
-This is an outdated, inferior procedure that should not be done on wild mares in a filthy, non-sterile environment.
-This is cruel and inhumane, and will result in aborted foals, hemorrhaging and infections and death in the mares.
-There is no way that this constitutes minimally invasive management of these wild mares. These wild horses are not guinea pigs to be experimented upon but they are wild free-roaming wildlife that have an integral part in our public lands where they are found.
-Sterilizing the wild horse herds on our public lands is a completely unacceptable, invasive, inhumane and destructive way to manage the wild horses that belong to all citizens of the United States.
Please comment – our wild mares need your help.
COMMENT PERIOD June 29 – July 30, 2018
A 30-day public comment period on the draft Environmental Assessment is open June 29 through July 30, 2018. Documents: https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=renderDefaultPlanOrProjectSite&projectId=107049&dctmId=0b0003e88112b997
Mail or deliver to:
Wild Horse Spay Feasibility Research Project Lead
BLM Burns District Office
28910 Highway 20 West, Hines, Oregon 97738
Fax: (541) 573-4411, Attn: Wild Horse Spay Feasibility Project Lead
Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Entire comments – including personal identifying information – may be published as part of the EA and Decision Record process.
Related Posts:
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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
75 Comments
Hands off America’s Wild Horses, they belong to the people of this country…..NO TO YOUR CRUEL AND DEADLY SPAYING!!!!!! STOP THIS BUTCHERY NOW!!!
Don’t even consider the cruel spay operation on mares. So much more humane to use PCP – cheaper too.
Pls there brother alternatives to this method pls as a taxpayer I am asking u not to do this inhumane experiment
Dart these horses instead
Is there a direct link to send comments to?
Here is the email address to send your comments to:
Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
This procedure is inhumane and unfair. Please reconsider your decision to sterilize these beautiful horses.
This is so Sickening… You cannot be serious to do this sickening procedure on the wild horses… They helped build America.. Leave our wild horses alone….
Tearing out internal organs from a highly stressed wild mare violates the veterinarian’s oath: “to use my scientific knowledge and skills for the benefit of society through the protection of animal health and welfare, the prevention and relief of animal suffering, the conservation of animal resources, the promotion of public health, and the advancement of medical knowledge.”
This is an outdated, inferior procedure that should not be done on wild mares in a filthy, non-sterile environment. It shouldn’t be done at all. This is cruel and inhumane, and will result in aborted foals, hemorrhaging and infections and death in the mares.
There is no way that this constitutes minimally invasive management of these wild mares. These wild horses are not guinea pigs to be experimented upon but they are wild free-roaming wildlife that have an integral part in our public lands where they are found.
Sterilizing the wild horse herds on our public lands is a completely unacceptable, invasive, inhumane and destructive way to manage the wild horses that belong to all citizens of the United States, and we want them left alone.
Please send your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Stop this cruel abuse on our our wild horses
I have emailed the above address and also my elected officials.
My elected officials I listed your blog for them to read and get a point of view from someone first hand. Also advised them to watch the Skydog video. I stated both are facts.
Thank you Carol Walker
Thank you!
It’s unreal that the BLM would do such a thing to our wild horses. We the people own these horses and no one wants this to be done. Leave the horses alone. This is their land and it should stay that way. Putting the horses in holding without shade is another inhumane practice the BLM has been doing for years. Let’s get rid of the BLM and let the people take over.
This is a cruel and inhumane practice. These horses survived without people’s intervention before. Leave the wild horses alone!
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
There is no question that wild mares should never be treated this way, and the BLM must be stopped. They intend to use this gruesome experiment, no matter the outcome, as a template for the sterilization and ultimately the eradication of all our wild horse herds in the American West, on our public lands.
STOP Messing with our American Wild Horses!????
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Please do NOT do sterilization on our horses. That is inhumane, cruelty like a mad scientist, and cannot reverse the sick procedure. Will destroy the nature of the horses and their lives. Leave our wild horses alone. No roundups, No abuse and cruelty, No slaughtering. No shipping our wild horses to other countries. Release our wild horses with family members and protect them. Our wild horses should be running wild, free and protected.
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
How can you be so cruel and evil. The wild horses belong to the people, the taxpayers. We do not want our wild horses and burros tortured in any manner. Why can’t you use rats to experiment on? Our wild horses are the truest symbol of freedom, isn’t that what America is about? Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Stop terrorizing and abusing Americas wild horses. Stop Slaughter
Freedom. Leave them ALONE please.
The wild horses and the land belong to the American people. Removing the horses, as well as other wildlife to make room for ranchers to graze cattle is NOT the job of the BLM. Your job is to preserve our horses and public land for the American public. Selling these horses to slaughter is wrong and sterilizing the mares is inhumane. Stop this cruel practice, stop taking blood money from the deaths of these horses that belong to each and every American citizen. NO cattle on public lands!
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
YOU AT BLM KNOW WE KNOW ALL ABOUT THESE PROCEDURES. THESE ARE WILD HORSES AND BURROS WHO DO NOT BELONG TO YOU. THEY BELONG TO US. WE WILL MAKE THE DECISIONS FOR THEM, AND IN THE END, YOUR INEPTITUDE AND YOUR DECISION TO FILL THEIR LANDS WITH NON-NATIVE CATTLE, WILL END YOUR JOB. YOU ALREADY HAVE BILLIONS IN MEAT THAT IS EXCESS – AND YOU’RE IN THE CATTLEMEN’S POCKETS? BACKLASH TIME, ZINKE!
WE WHO LOVED THESE HORSES AND BURROS IN THE 70S, PROTECTED THEM WITH AN ACT OF CONGRESS. WE OWE THEM. WE DON’T OWE RYAN ZINKE OR HIS QUISLINGS IN ANY DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT. TRUMP MADE A MISTAKE PICKING YOU. WE HAVEN’T FINISHED CONVINCING HIM YET. IT’LL COME.
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
This is such an outdated, cruel and inhumane way to treat any animal. The cattleman have enough land for their herds. They belong to the American people. The BLM needs to do their job and protect these horses. Our government protected them for years and this administration wants to kill them. So bad for America. Leave them for the future generations to see and love. That are our history and such beautiful creatures.
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Please do not use barbaric sterilization methods on this horses, this is not necessary there are other options.
This is insane! The BLM is supposed to be taking care of these horses, not torturing them. STOP this CRUEL and unscientific procedure.
The plan laid out for strilization in this manner is not a good one. Please stop this barbaric sterilization method. There are other options. Wha t will it take ?
This is the inhumane and will destroy our wild horses. The proposed cruelty is beyond belief and not protecting our wild horses and burros. The whole think is a disgrace, there are ways to manage our wild horses and burros on their range but that is NOT Washington’s agenda. It is obvious the goal is to wipe out our free roaming wild horses and burros. So much corruption.
Please email your comments to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
So horrible and cruel. Really they are hoping they will bleed out or get an infection and die. Satanic villains on the level of Nazis.
What is wrong with the BLM? Who gives these people the authority to torture these beautiful creatures?
What is wrong with the BLM!!! There are humane ways to manage population! These wild horses are our heritage. The cattle are not!! These horses must be free to roam our public lands! STOP THIS MADNESS!!!
Stop the cruelty you are doing to our wild horses. Leave them on the land that belongs to them.
The people of Minden and Gardnerville Nevada worked with their BLM and Interior folks and have worked out a common sense solution. When you have PZP available why on earth would you even consider this torture????
This practice is barbaric. It must stop now. These animals lives have value. This is pure torture and you will judged by your actions on these poor defenseless creatures. This is animal cruelty at its worst. Do the right thing and dart them.
I pray that GOD dosent condem you or your family to a horrific and painful death as you are doing to these beautiful creatures that do not belong to you to do these awful things is unfathomable!!!! Let them be free as that is what they are suppose to be…
I pray that GOD himself protects you and your family from any horrific and painful death that you are doing to his beautiful creatures. Leave them alone amd set them free!!
Absolutely barbaric and inhumane to do this to sentient beings who feel pain and distress as we do how would you all feel if this happened to a member of your family ?
I hope for America’s sake you reconsider this horrific experiment which is on par with something hitler would have done to the Jews.
It doesn’t bode well especially as the mustang is such an iconic part of your history and where would America be if it wasn’t for homesteaders and their horses.
Please email your comments today to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Stop cruel and deadly spaying of wild mares by the BLM and CSU !!! Stop it immediately and find another way !!! Find the right way !!!
Please email your comments today to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Sterilizing the wild horse herds on our public lands is a completely unacceptable, invasive, inhumane and destructive way to manage the wild horses that belong to all citizens of the United States.
Please email your comments today to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Did somebody say “Joseph Mengele”? The description says it all:”blindly cutting” & hoping you are cutting the correct structures-what happened to “doing no harm”. Sounds more & more like “Dr Mengele” just cutting random things to see what happens…pathetic excuse for humanity!!
Spaying wild mares is barbaric and inhumane. Just the fact that you are experimenting on these beautiful creatures gives the BLM and CSU a stigma of disgust — and we as taxpayers are funding your actions without agreement, approval or a green light. It’s already been proved that PZP is available and works. Why on earth would you even consider this torture? If the general public knew what the BLM and CSU was up to they’d be outraged with the BLM… with Zinke. ( Zinke appears to have taken the reins as the most scandal-plagued member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.)
i thought this had been canceled. these people are not god all these beautiful creatures was put here for a purpose man needs to leave things alone . man is messing with gods plan. you have to stop this totally wrong any way you look at it. the safe drug pzp works use it and dont experment on our beautiful horses.
Stop the cruelty to these animals.
Stop this horrible abuse! We the people say NO! Shame on you for not protecting these beautiful animals.
Please do not use any inhumane means to spay these horses or to further hurt them in any way. They are an important part of our heritage and should be able to live out their lives in peace. Please, please take better care of them and don’t hurt them any more. Thank you!
Please email your comments today to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Please dart with PZP instead of this c ruel method of spaying. The method you’re suggesting is cruel
and inhumane. Please dart with PZP as an alternative.
Please email your comments today to the BLM: Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
This is sickening. I know there are more humane ways to sterilize these mares. I do believe the herds need to be controlled but not with torture. This procedure reminds me of a late term abortion on a human fetus, which disgusts me even more than this.
Animal cruelty is AGAINST the the law, no matter who does it!
Leave our Living Legends alone they belong to us all. We want to continue to enjoy them and for future generations to also enjoy. Stop this dangerous experiment of spaying our living legends deserve better!
This is not a way to mange the wild horses. This is cruel and leads to extinction. Instead geld the males who are not worthy of reproducing and proud cut only the best that way all of the mares will not bear offspring in the year. This way we will always have wild horses but not an excess of them to hold in facilities at the taxpayers expense.
There is no need to spay, geld or any other method of sterilization. There is no overpopulation of wild horses in our public lands.
These are the ancestors of horses that won the West. May they live in peace, unsullied by man’s intervention.
Just wondering, if this plan goes into effect, can those performing the procedure and these organizations be charged with animal cruelty?
Will our country allow this disgraceful and barbaric act?
Please do not go through with this. It’s barbaric and cruel.
[…] Action Alert! Please Comment to Stop Cruel and Deadly Spaying of Wild Mares by the BLM and CSU […]
This is completely cruel and unnecessary! As stated earlier by a veterinarian “This surgery is rarely done on domestic mares and for good reason. The use of fertility drugs for on range management has been successful and should be pursued by the BLM. Spaying wild mares, if they survive, results in permanent sterilization and loss of genetic material. That alone should stop this effort by the BLM, if the goal is management and preservation of our wild horses.”
STOP!!!!
Inhumane animals that are driving horses to death. It is not right for them to starve them and chase them to death . STOP DOING THIS TO THE HORSES. THEY WERE HERE BEFORE US AND LET THEM ALONE.
LEAVE THEM FREE TO BE FREE, LIVING FREE and Born Free….
We the people do not condone this inhumane treatment of these iconic wild horses. It is not in the best interest of this country to support the income of cattlemen using public lands for their private profit, and certainly not at the cost of an American icon. Stop kowtowing to overpaid lobbyists working for the cattle industry and start listening to the American people, WHOSE INTERESTS IT IS YOUR JOB TO REPRESENT. Stop acting like bloodthirsty marauders attacking the indigenous population to benefit some corrupt, uncaring king, in this case cattle “kings,” and start acting like actual caretakers of our nation’s natural resources. Of which wild horses are a significant part. And stop your inhumane treatment of these noble animals!
Please send your comments to the BLM by September 2. Email comments should be sent to: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
This idea is only a cover up obviously you are not managing these wild horses and burros you are murdering them. The stress you are thinking of inflicting upon these mares alone is enough to kill them and using a barbaric method of sterilizing in unhygienic areas should finish the job. This is totally sick and demented.
BLM has been an Abusive element Destroying the American Heritage for decades. Their vast $$$ keep the Senseless Evil going. Many Beef Ranchers exhist without the atrocities BLM creates. I have seen it since 1970s, sincerely wish what they perpetuate on these innocent creatures could be turned on their families and friends !! Veterinarians have spoken out against many of their actions !! I’m not sure what it takes to get this bunch of self proclaimed rulers to listen.. Reverse situations so that the American horses run free , Life and death ruled by nature , let BLM Control their own cattle herds in the manners they have devised !!!! Control and profit that’s all they understand and that is pitiful way for any part of my country to be run! PLEASE VOTE TO STOP SENSELESS, USELESS ABUSE & DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA’s HERITAGE— in this case HORSES. Please LISTEN TO veterinarians , take a good look at the photos and see if you can hold your stomach !! VERMONT supports much more than just our Morgan Horse Figure….
Please send your comments to the BLM by September 2. Email comments should be sent to: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
It is an Inhumane practice. BLM needs to stop with the roundup and leave these beautiful horses alone. We pay your salary, why is it that you are not listening to us
All I have to do is repeat the following:
“This type of trial and error butchery is a violation of the least feasible management clause of the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Mass experimental surgeries performed under these conditions outlined in the proposal, amounts to negligence and abuse. I believe experiments such as this proposal are unethical, inhumane and unwarranted. Any veterinarian(s) who would perform these experiments is in violation of the oath taken as a graduating veterinarian, “above all else, do no harm”.
Who is giving the BLM the authority to become BUTCHERS OF THE WILD WEST? call your Congressmen and Representatives now to sign SAFE Act and to stop the dangerously, risky sterilization