You guys might find this interesting.
Well, we know (s)he's a loser.
They are foreign invaders anyway.
Saddle thread ping?
Well, if someone is breaking a law by killing the animals, arrest and prosecute them. End if story. Apparently law enforcement has not done its job.
These animals are livestock. Don't cause them unnecessary pain and suffering, of course, but they are property. They are non-native and if problematic, should be removed. By killing them, if necessary. I guess I'm a neanderthal, but I grew up in the country, and have no romantic attraction to the beasts.
There is a special place in hell for someone who would shoot a horse, especially a 7 month old foal. This kind of brutality makes me physically ill.
I wonder why they can give out details on all kinds of evidence they've found but can't/won't give out information on the bullets recovered.
I'm confused about one thing, though . . . The article makes reference to a "Parker Ridge" in that area, but I always knew Parker Ridge as a landmark some 50+ miles away from there, along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park.
Vandalism.
My first horse was a mustang that had been running in Northern Nevada. He was shot in the neck by a vandal, but managed to run until he collapsed on a friend's property there. They managed to rehab him, tame him, and they sent him up to me.
We went thousands of miles together...
They are not indigenous. they strip away the food for the indigenous species such as elk, bighorn sheep,etc. The need to be at least controlled. if that means opening a season or rounding them up for sale then so be it.
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/publications/humane-control/hor004-trapping-feral-horses.pdf
An interesting aside ... when the Ford Mustang was designed, the creator (Lee Iacocca ((sp??)) the logo was supposed to be the P51 Mustang, not the horse ....
Better nip this in the bud, or else the estrogen crazed horses-uber-alles brigades will put enshrine these stupid pests in your national constitution and really wreck your range.
You should see the destruction left by "wild" horses in Nevada. We have over 50% of all "wild" horses in the western US in Nevada and they utter wreck the range, springs, trees, you name it. The "wild horse Annie" types will hear of no sound management proposals, thinking that these creatures are "threatened." What the WHOA types never tell you is that "wild" horses have almost no predators (other than mountain lions in high country) and left unchecked, their herd size will increase 17 to 21% every year until they encounter a hard winter or starve themselves in population collapse. By the time the latter option has happened, everything else on the range is starving too.
Then when the WHOA types start seeing how they horses starve, they'll saddle you with paying for round-ups and adoption centers. And for the horses that people won't adopt (which is the vast majority of horse gathered off the range), they'll force you to create "refuges" where the government pays private operators to graze the stupid beasts, with vets caring for them, year after year after year, at a cost of over $3/head/day.
I'm warning you: get on top of this fast, or otherwise you'll see the biggest flap and stupid tax-funded programs to care for these stupid creatures that you've ever seen, because politicians are too cowardly to tell a bunch of weepy-eyed women to "shut up, grow up and sit down."
The wild horse situation in Nevada is my "Exhibit #1" on why the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was our single biggest mistake as a nation.
btt for later
Horses are an invasive and destructive alien species.
The true symbol of freedom is the nutria.
"Bob Henderson was able to identify them by the markings on their heads, which had not yet been ravaged by eagles and wolves. "
I am pleased to note the markings had not been ravaged.