Ep #32: A Tribute to Thor, Wild Stallion of McCullough Peaks
May 6, 2024
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The BLM’s online auction ended two weeks ago. 14 McCullough Peaks mares and fillies were in this adoption. There were also 951 other wild horses from 49 different herds, plus foals that had been born at a facility. In this episode, I cover the online event and some issues that I have regarding this kind of adoption process versus in-person events.
My personal experience tells me that for both wild horses and their future human partners to benefit, you need to witness the horses in person. How they interact with other horses. How they move. What is their personality? This is very important. An online event simply cannot offer this. And not only this, but much more. We need to make significant changes or completely dismantle the program.
If you have ever wondered what it would be like bidding to adopt a wild horse or burro in the online corral, don’t miss this episode. I also share my thoughts after going through this process myself, why I think it needs to change, and why my goal is to see reforms that prioritize the well-being of the wild horses being adopted out of the BLM’s system.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- What an online corral is all about.
- How the process of adoption works.
- Why AIP, the Adoption Incentive Program, is a terrible incentive that leads many horses to slaughter.
- Why online events are not to the benefit of the wild horses.
- The problems I found with the adoption process, before and especially after.
- What a better alternative option to online adoptions, one that favors the wild horses, could look like.
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6 Comments
Thank, excellent explanations. I hope many will listen
Thank you so much for the explanation and your experience. I am really against on such online auctions. That is wrong. I hope all find good homes. Thank you for make it clear ❤️🙏
Pray these precious horses all find forever homes! They should not have been rounded up by BLM in the first place! They are icons of the west and deserve to be free as they have always been and know. It’s all about greed between BLM and the cattlemen and it is wrong!
Breaks my heart that Thora and the other foals were not returned to the range. Especially since Thor is now gone Too. I wish they had been given their freedom back. None of the mustangs need to be rounded up!! The BLM is rounding up the mustangs to extinction. Makes me so sad and angry. I really have no desire to go see a cow grazing on the prairie/range. My wish is that every mustang rounded up lands in a loving forever home. But I know better. I pray for all the sweet innocent horses.
This is wrong!, let the wild horses live wild and free as to where they belong!!! Your karma will come back on you! Sincerely, Dana M Burket!!!!!
To me it all seems corrupt. I appreciate the people that truly care and love the wild horses and burrows. But I strongly disagree with the way things have evolved. Why were the horses and burrows land taken away from them .Why is so much tax payers money spent on darting Mares. Why not geld the Stallions. To keep numbers down. It all seems like a rich man s game.I think it is wrong . I think it is horrible that we the tax payers are paying ranchers to keep wild horses pinned up. There is always to many horses. But you never hear of to many sheep or to many cows. It’s all a greed money profit. It’s inhume the way the horses are herded and using soft squishy words like gathering is just a play on words. Just a cover up to blind ignorant people on wrong or harmful practices to make it seem safe and well managed. People that own animals that they value would never always them to be treated in that fashion. It just sickens me. But nothing ever changes with so many voices going unheard or politely ignored. I think 125.00 is really cheap for a protected species. My heart cry’s for the freedoms and the lands that are stolen form the wild horses and burrows.