Help Horses

Trump’s America is a place where oil drilling can take place in our National Parks that were designated to be untouched territory. Now Trump’s America wants to annoy and chase down our wild horses on National Parks lands. Wild Mustangs were always symbols of America’s treasured example of untamed beauty. We all wish we could run wild at least for a while. The predator chasing our wild horses is anything but natural. Trump’s government is authorizing helicopters to chase and chorale the wild horses for miles until they are exhausted. The helicopter roundups are commissioned by The United States Bureau of Land Management. What true American would want our tax paying dollars to be spent on torturing our natural wild life?

The BLM is doing a controversial practice where the horses are being herded by high speed noisy and windy helicopters. What happened to the Marlboro man, that guy on the horse humanely dealing with wild horses?  And why bother those beautiful beasts in all their wildness anyway?  The horses are sometimes being held PERMANENTLY into holding cells to control the population. Now Trump’s government is considering to allow the slaughter of these majestic animals   for   the first time in 50 Years. The lives of thousands of horses are in jeopardy. Most of America’s 75,000 wild horses live on public lands. The government controls these lands.

Why do we have to control the horse population if they are on our untamed lands? Jim Schnepel is the President of the Wild Horses of America Foundation. We shouldn’t need a foundation to protect our wild animals. The BLM or Bureau of Land Management controls 1/8 of the United State land. Our horse home is in jeopardy because this Bureau leases over 60% of the land out to ranchers. Yes, our government is making money on our tax paid open lands. The ranchers want the horses pushed off the land so that only their private owned livestock could graze on all the grasses and food. Is there any ethics left to our lawmakers?

Even our protected lands are no longer protected with oil drilling and our wild life being tortured. After a traumatic roundup being chased by low flying high speed helicopters the horses will be herded into holding facilities like the DELTA Wild Horse Corrals part of the United States Department of the Interior under the Bureau of Land Management. We want our untamed lands to remain just that and not to be controlled by personal profitable ranchers for their other livestock. The profitable ranchers will pay to keep each horse in a holding cell or wild horse prison. There are over 45,000 wild horses in America.

There are over 5,000 horses being held in holding facilities at any given time costing tax payers over $50 million dollars to manage in a single year. Trump likes to waste tax payer money. The United States Department of the Interior was established on March 3, 1849. Why does arrogant Trump think we need to change things after 169 years? Corporate greed has spilled over into our beautiful National Parks. In the 2018 budget Trump’s America is lifting the regulations to allow the slaughter of our wild horses on our protected lands. Why is suddenly the very agency formed to protect these animals now authorizing the slaughter of them?

Who voted for that? If you care, put on your protest shoes and join up with the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. The Bureau of Land Management is asking Congress for permission to kill our wild horses. Our tax dollars should NOT be paying for wild horses to be held like prisoners in holding cells until the government goes even further and allows a killing spree. Why does America love and want to use and choose their guns and not to choose life and freedom?

Even 84% of Trump’s supporters oppose the slaughter of wild horses then why is he allowing a vote to kill the animals to go to Congress? We do have Lobbyists from the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign doing their best but a good President could stop all this new slaughtering. Trump is NOT a good President. Not even to wild horses. His sons like to kill wild animals all the time for their own sadistic pleasures.  The people wanting this slaughter are there because they can personally profit from it.

If the government wanted to be humane in any way they could be investing in birth control darts to control the populating and not pay for costly horse prisons. Darting mares with birth control will surely control foals being born. The darts cost $2.00 and the medicine costs $25.00. A much simpler and cheaper solution.  Better yet keep the ranchers and the killers off our national lands for another 169 years. Leave our wild horses alone! There are places like the Montgomery Creek Ranch that will tame a wild horse and provide them as companion animals. There is no need to kill these majestic horses.

Horses have value and need to remain in the wild on our public lands. Horses represent America’s past and were long here before any of us came to America.