BLM Lays Out Plan for Managing Wild Horses and Burros to Extinction
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June 11, 2018Urgent! Please Comment Today to Stop BLM’s Gruesome Torture of Wild Mares
Mares and foal in Burns Corrals
Urgent! Please Comment Today by 4 pm to Stop BLM’s Gruesome Torture of Wild Mares By Carol Walker, Director of Field Documentation, WHFF
The BLM has released a Scoping Document on the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in Oregon that proposes spaying wild mares using ovariectomy via colpotomy. Despite massive public outcry and three lawsuits that ultimately stopped the BLM from proceeding with these so-called “experiments” in 2016, they are proposing it again. This is not about controlling a supposedly out of control population of wild horses, this is not about actual data driven scientific research and this is no way, shape or form humane, safe or responsible treatment of the wild horses that the BLM is mandated to manage and protect. This is instead cruel, unsanitary, unethical and lethal torture of wild mares. What kind of monsters propose ripping out the ovaries of wild mares in a BLM holding corral in Burns, Oregon, one of the most dirty and unsanitary places that can be found? Many of these mares and their unborn foals will die, many will suffer horribly, and for what? Spaying of domestic mares is a procedure very rarely done, not using this outdated, obscene method, and is only done in sterile, controlled conditions.
Scoping Letter:
https://www.wildhoofbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Scoping_Letter_-_May_2018.pdf
In 2016 Don Moore, a veterinarian in Colorado commented on the plans for sterilizing wild mares in a holding corral ovariectomy via colpotomy:
“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
What can you do to help?
Say that you oppose the spaying of wild mares under any conditions. Say that the BLM must abandon all research plans that use the sterilization of wild horses and that they must use only humane and safe methods to manage wild horses in the wild on our public lands where they belong.
You can email the BLM using this information by 4pm today:
Email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Subject Line: DOI-BLM-ORWA-B050-2018-0016-EA Spay Feasibility and On-Range Behavioral Outcomes Assessment and Warm Springs Herd Management Area Population Management Plan
Letters – postmarked by June 4
Lisa Grant, Wild Horse & Burro Specialist
BLM, Burns District Office, Oregon
28910 Highway 20 W
Hines, OR 97738
Tel. (541) 573-4555
Wild Mare nursing her foal in the Burns Corrals
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94 Comments
Stop this butchery on our wild horses…
this must be stop immediately , there is NO REASON to do this stop the Butchery of our PRECIOUS BEAUTIES the WILD MUSTANGS NOW
This cruelty must stop. Its unthinkable yet the BLM are going to rip open beautiiful mare / fillys and pull their productive organs out ! Theres no need for this, pzp can be used to control population whete needed !!
The barbaric sterization procedure must not be a part of your ongoing barbaric managements of America’s wild horse herds. The risk of infection and complications not to mention the pain of the procedure itself is not acceptable.
Leave them in their natural state and stop the overcrowding of their habitat with cattle and sheep grazing permits.
This is barbaric with unneeded pain and suffering. You people are completely evil at BLM.
This is cruel and inhumane treatment of these American icons. Why are they being subjected to pain and torture when there are darting for sterilization that is safer and more humane. Please this is just not ethical and safe. Do not go thru with this barbaric practice.
STOP THE INHUMANE TREATMENT OUR HORSES!!!! NO SLAUGHTER!!! PRACTICE COMPASSION OVER CRUELTY!!!!
Agree! Leave them alone! This is their home and they belong there just as much as man. STOP the madness!
I am so ashamed that this country, our congress and specifically the BLM has turned into a heartless humanity – the BLM is acting like the Hitler regime against OUR WILD HORSES. This is beyond words and must by stopped. It is the BLM that is supposed to protect them.
Dont hurts your animals,horses are so kindly animals. Let them live their lives,.
The barbaric sterization procedure must not be a part of your ongoing barbaric managements of America’s wild horse herds. The risk of infection and complications not to mention the pain of the procedure itself is not acceptable.
Leave them in their natural state and stop the overcrowding of their habitat with cattle and sheep grazing permits.
If everyone commenting here could please send these comments to the BLM that would be the most helpful – here is the email, please do it by 4 pm today: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Please remember to send your comments to the BLM by 4pm today – thank you! Here is the email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
Obscene and unethical… must not be done
BLM should never be allowed to use these barbaric, brutal and inhumane sterilization practices on mares. This torturous sterilization MUST STOP!!!!
Stop this Gruesome Torture of Wild Mares.
Disgusting behaviour of people who think they are intelligent…
Disgusting behaviour of people who think they are intelligent….
Please leave the horses alone. God made them to run free and be wild. They don’t hurt anyone and they have a right to be on the public lands. Get The cattle off public lands,not the horses.
We have been out in this planet to take care of her and all life. We are doing a terrible job because of greed. BLM needs to stop this barbaric and gruesome torture.
We have been Given the responsibility to take care of this planet and all life. We are going a terrible job because greed has gotten in the way. The BLM needs to stop this barbaric and gruesome torture.
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Obscene and unethical… must not be done
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Stop killing these horses. They were here for a long time running free. Theyhave the right to live. We need to take care of this planet and nothing has happened. Wild animals are killed for sport. And soon they will be gone. Stop killing these beautiful horses BLM stop the killing now!!!!
Please send your comments to the BLM by 4pm today, email: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
This idea and practice is barbaric and I humane. Anyone practicing this should be ashamed of themselves. Please stop immediately
Please please consider other and more humane options than this cruel and sometimes deadly procedure .. ????
The BML must remember they are public workers, they ultimately work for us lets start getting names and demand that they are fired with no benefits , then and only then they will understand that WE THE PEOPLE own them.
ENOUGH TORTURE of our wild horses. This is inhumane and wrong! There are other ways to handle this. This experiment sounds like someone from Nazi Germany is in charge. STOP this brutal way of sterilizing our nation’s natural treasure, the wild horse.
Stop! BLM needs to listen to the People!! No more torturing of America’s wild horses!!
Stop this unnecessary stress to wild mares! There are other, less stressful means to temporarily sterilize already stressed wild horses. And stop the roundups! Return the HMAs to their original acreage and remove the cattle and sheep.
Please! Stop treating horses the way they have been treated for years now! We humans are meant to take care of animals. Does not mean chasing ten formulas with helicopters, corralling them for months in open pens, and finally sending them to slaughter auctions!
I couldn’t agree more, the torture of these beautiful creatures needs to end! They have a natural right to this land and deserve to be treated with love & respect, not scared &penned, tortured then sold for meat…. shameful what tax dollars go to cause no one would vote for this except the ranchers
To whom it may concern: Please stop the cruelty of BLM to the Horses. Leave them alone , let them live in peace and love ..a BLM LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TELLING YOU TO STOP STRESSING THE HORSES , THEY WERE HERE ON EARTH BEFORE USE AND LEAVE THEM ALONE. STOP CHASING THEM, STOP THE STRESSFUL WAY OF HURTING THE HORSES. ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE… STOP !!STOP BLM……………………………
Please send your comments to the BLM by 4pm today, here is the email address: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
I sent one to them as well
I agree with u this is so wrong how about this they want to hurt our wild horses so let’s do this how about we do it to them so they know how these amazing horses feel stop blm this is wrong and bs they have been here longer then us that is there land not yours
This is horrible and uncalled for. There are other less invasive ways to keep the population down, gelding the males is one of them giving the mares shots to keep them from ovulating is the best.
Do NOT allow the blm to do this to the mares they will just end up suffering and dying. It takes a human woman longer to recover from a hysterectomy than it does a man having a vasectomy. Same goes for aninals.
Find another way or best yet just leave them alone, round up every year take only yearling females and a few colts.
What and who gives BlM the right to abuse our wild and helpless animals??
bLM must be curtailed from all activities and let we the people vote on their activities.
BLM has abused animals for too many years without overseers.
we have to unite and demand their free wheeling murdering br stopped!
It’s a Shame and a “boucherie” ????????????????
This is an inhumane solution to the problem. Gelding the stallions is much more efficient, and should be more economical.
I am one of the 80 percent of Americsn Citizens that want wild horses protected and free. None should be subjected to cruel experiments, round ups, slaughter or euthanasia. Please restore our wild horses to the range where they belong. In the vast public lands of the west, wild horses occupy and impact only a small percentage. Yet they eat weeds and brush cattle and sheep cannot . They help prevent wildfires and naturally reseed the range. This American is against our public lands being turned into giant stockyard. Please free and protect our wild horses enduring symbol of the American Soirit.
You are paid to protect OUR wild horses and Burros. Do your job and stop rounding them up for a life of captivity in your crappy corrals with no shade. LEAVE them on OUR lands where they belong. Screw the ranchers let them buy their own land to graze their cattle on.
This can not be allowed!
The BLM should not even exist. This is all for cattlemen, land for cows. All about the almighty damned dollar. Enough is enough.
I just don’t understand why they have to be so cruel and inhumane. Instead of going after the mares, why not castrate the males. Everything is on the outside of his body.
These animals are a huge part of history.
It all comes down to money.
Treat all animals with love and respect, not this barbaric-inhumane treatment. Would you want this performed on yourself or your children? I think not. Who are you or any of you in this agency to decide what is best for these magnificent animals? Your focus needs to be placed on how to reorganize this corrupt agency. You nor those within your agency know what is best for these animals, your focus is purely on evil intentions and physical/emotional abuse. This is NOT okay!!!
Please send your comments to the BLM by 4pm today, here is the email address: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
This is inhumane and barbaric. Stop, and do not do this to our wild horses.
For the life of me I cannot understand why you are so evil. Wild horses are as American as apple pie and our flag. Leave them alone. Maybe you should learn to respect them. Learn how special they are. Learn how to help them not hurt them. Not hurt them!
It’s a sad day in this county when the government endorses torture of our wild , rich, heritage!
SUE THESE BASTARD HORSE MURDERERS
Leave the wildlife alone- there is no need for this. God created these beautiful animals not meant to be ruined by anyone. Stop this immediately!,,
Greedy bastards. BLM must be investigated for abuse of power, animal abuse, mismanagement of public funds, and lack of transparency.
Please stop killing our friends.
This is beyond word and has to stop right know! Shame on you to Harm this beautifull creatures in their natural habitat .they are ment to be and stay there! I am from Holland and following this awfull fate of these majestic and beautifull wild horses.you have the power to chance this fate…so act and legt them be free and wild.. thank you
Those fantastic earthlings simply deserve much much better!!! Shame on those who destroy them!!!
Please leave our wild horses alone!
I tried reading about the procedure, it made me sick . I can’t imagine this being done to a 1200 pound wild animal. I rode my horse this morning and I can’t imagine someone doing this to her. This can’t be allowed. More death and destruction for our mustangs.
This is obscene and vile – how could anyone do that to an animal – psychopath comes to mind. Stop it now!
Horses helped settle this country!! They deserve better treatment!!
Stop the aniliation of OUR horses, the American people don’t want this!!
It’s Barbaric and most Veterinarian Schools banned this practice decades ago.
My opinion it’s sadistic and cruel and causes extreme pain and suffering.
It’s deadly.
It’s Barbaric and most Veterinarian Schools banned this practice decades ago.
It’s sadistic and cruel and causes extreme pain and suffering.
It’s deadly.
The individuals who think that this procedures is acceptable are Monsters.
Totally perverse suggestion and totally opposite the true intent of the WFHBA!
Stop the madness stop the ovectomy operation on our wild mustang mares and use the shot birth contol method. These mares will be tortued and get infections and suffer gtreatly and die.
Stop the unnecessary butchery of the Mustangs..For heavens sake have a heart!!
There are other ways to deal with wild horses. If the BLM continues to torture by sterilization butchery and terrorize by helicopter round-ups where foals are often lost in the shuffle and selling America’s wild horses public outcry will turn to organization and bring charges to those responsible. There are statutes preventing such abuses and horse rescuers will see that they are honored and upheld.
Stop this butchery of our wild mustangs. This is under ethical and inhumane
What and who gives BlM the right to abuse our wild and helpless animals??
bLM must be curtailed from all activities and let we the people vote on their activities.
Wouldn’t it br cheaper to geld all the studs?
This is so shameful. They are apart of this world. How would people feel if they started doing this to humans. Please leave these beautiful animals alone and let them live in peace. God created these beautiful animals to be apart of the land. BLM should be fined for such an outrageous act.
This BLM project must be stopped as barbaric, inhumane and unnecessary .We learn nothing in performing these procedures and cause great harm, not only to wild animals but also to our stewardship, and our sense of right and wrong.
My God, what has happened to America where animals are nothing except a money maker? No slaughter! Stop maiming, experimenting, abusing and slaying horses. I know about the soulless: welfare ranchers, BLM National, Zinke, Trump.
There are reasonable population control methods available. This is NOT one of them! Shame on whoever thought it up, and shame on all of us if it is allowed to happen.
People need to stop this torture of these beautiful horses and let them live please stop this not right
This must stop. Save what little bit of wild horses we have left!!!!!
Enough is ENOUGH TGESE NOBLE HORSES BELONG FREE ON THE RANGE .NOT IN A NAZI CAMP , BEING EXPERIMENTED ON LIKE SOME MAD MAN THAT’S DEMONIC . THESE HONORABLE HORSES NEED THERE FREEDOM TO ROAM FAR AWAY FROM HUMANS .STOP THE BUTCHERY ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILD MUSTANGS.
This beautiful animals are apart of our history. They are beautiful and intelligent. This must stop we need to protect the wild horses. There is nothing more beautiful than to see a herd living and roaming free.
I can’t believe the cruelty and murderousness of the BLM. Vicious and barbaric operations for mares and stallions inteneded to wipe out all wild horses which the BLM were tasked to manage and protect not murder.
They have a right to live they dont belong to you
This is horrendus! Mark Twain said it before that Man is the cruelest of all animals for they take consciencious pleasure in torturing animals. We need to set the clocks back…if we do not react in indignation by head butting against those damned politicians and other Republi”cunts” BLM lacqueys we are no longer humans!
We should also demand a new “Animal Welfare. and Safety Act” modeled on Quebec’s”AWS Act” adopted by the National Assembly in Dec 2015 redifining animals as sentient beings with biological needs without exposing them to distress.
Stop this. Any human who does it needs to be
Stop this. Any human who does it needs to be taken out.
What needs to be done is to completely remove the BLM from any contact with these horses, put people in their place that are horse people that understands what is needed to keep the horses safe, watered an taken care of. The BLM is in bed with the ranchers these are the people they consider most important not the horses nor the members of the public that want them left alone. The BLM are crooks this is the way they run the place in private even considering a surgery like this is insane let alone doing it. They were caught in the 90’s selling truck loads of the horses to one o f their killer buyers someone found out about it an stopped because it was totally against the law. But their buddy the kill buyer still made money off of the horses.
STOP this insane, archaic procedure ! It’s butchery!
All I can say is: The devil is working his evil. I have no idea how anyone could participate in butchering an innocent animal. These wild horses and burros have done nothing wrong but you the BLM and all concerned are determined to eradicate every one of them . The BLM has never had the welfare of these beautiful wild horses and burros at heart otherwise they would not be engaging in harmful methods of ‘sterilization.’ Why is this Agency full of people who have no regard for the welfare of these wild horses and burros?
Why remove the wild horses and burros and not the cattle and sheep that graze for virtually nothing? Why are they not removed?
In my opinion the BLM has a conflict of interest and should not be making decisions that aill harm the wild horses and burros. It is my opinion that this should be settled in the Courts.
Stop! This is insane!
This is just stupid action. No way should this procedure be performed on any animal. What is wrong with these people.??? They like to torture these poor animals??? STOP.
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So we are an advanced race so much so that we can 3D print stuff and fly into space but we can come up with a better way to control the herd size of our wild horses? I understand they can’t just run rampant, but can you imagine for a second how that would feel?
Please send your comments to the BLM by September 2. Email comments should be sent to: blm_or_spaystudy_warmsprhma@blm.gov
-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.
This is barbaric!! I cannot believe the BLM is trying to justify these gruesome acts of inhumanity with a “study”!! Any United States politician and local authoritie who is in support of this abhorrent, act of cruelty needs to be either re educated or be investigated for accepting “gifts” from lobbyists and government yes men!! Absolutely horrific and sadistic behavior! And they say that this is supposed to be humane? I question the judgement and intelligence of anyone in support of this barbarism!
What gives the BLM the right to play God. Brutally sterilizing mares in the most barbaric manner. Not caring for the horses at all, they are round up by helicopters and here the horses are terrorized til some are fatally wounded, foals are separated brutally from their mothers.