What The Heck, BLM?

Have you heard about what the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is doing to the wild mustangs of Nevada and Montana and every other state? They are chasing these horses - thousands of them - down mountains and away from their homes. How are they doing this? They fly loud, noisy, scary (to the horses) helicopters to scare the horses into running. The helicopters chase the horses into pens, where the stallions are separated from the mares/foals. Then, trailers arrive. The trailers haul the horses to what are called holding facilities.

At these holding facilities, the mares are separated from their foals. The stallions, who lead the herds of majestic mustangs, are kept in a pen all together. One thing that almost every horse person knows: NEVER put two stallions into the same pen, let alone a hundred. These stallions fight for rights to mares, sometimes to the death. So, with so many stallions kept in these pens, and the mares just a few fences away, what else do the stallions do but fight. The stallions don't know any better - they most likely assume that if they defeat the other stallions, they can get back to their mares.

The thing is, some of these holding facilities are long-time holding facilities. This means that hundreds or thousands of once-wild horses will be kept in these tight spaces for weeks, months, or even years!

How do these horses finally get out of that he!! hole? They get adopted if they are OK-ed by vets and they are halter broken (meaning they accept being led) and trailer broken (meaning they accept riding in a trailer). But 60% of these horses don't get adopted. Some of them end up in slaughterhouses. Some of them end up in good homes. Some of them don't end up going anywhere. There are so many things that can happen to these horses. What makes me want to destroy the BLM is the fact that mares and foals are separated, so that they can't be in contact with each other! That's like taking a 2-year-old kid and taking it away from its mother. Imagine what that's like to the horses, who depend on their mothers' milk and protection. Horses are prey animals, meaning that they eat grass and plants and they are preyed on by other animals, like mountain lions.

The BLM says that there are too many wild horses, and that they are eating all of the cattle's food. Well, you should know this: For every 1 wild horse, there is 150 cattle out in the wild west! What does THAT say about the lies the BLM has told?

B - breaking up wild herds
L - lying to us about their actions
M - meanly destroying our heritage

I hope you get the picture by now: BLM NEEDS TO STOP THIS MADNESS. Wild horses are America's heritage, and BLM is taking them away! This has to stop! Sometimes, there are protests against this wild attempt to take away our history and heritage. But most of the time, no one does anything about it!

I just thought that I would raise awareness of this idiotic move by the BLM. There have been quite a history of roundups, and an amazingly low amount of adopted horses. Pass this on to any horsey people you know, so that they can know about it, too! Pass it on to non-horsey people, even! We need to raise awareness. You don't have to donate money, or do anything like that to help stop this. All you need to do - if you want to, you don't even have to - is write to Senator Salazar, who is a U.S. senator and is the mastermind behind these roundups. We CAN help, and I'm sure we WILL. Please help.

Thank you for reading, and if you are against the BLM's wild horse roundups, put this in your status/signature: "The BLM is breaking up wild horse herds, lying to us about their actions, and meanly destroying America's heritage. STOP IT BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF CONTROL."