Posted on 12/18/2019 4:10:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
I’ll add that cruelty to animals is wrong. There’s no good reason for it. Idolators of the distant past sliced steaks from live animals and kept them alive—very bad (because, following idolators)!
But properly euthanizing animals is not cruel, including actions to do so with properly placed bullets (brain). Neither is getting rid of pests that spread diseases to humans, including colonies of feral animals that were pets. People who feed colonies of feral pests are cruel.
If someone was cruel to those horses, yes. It should be regarded as an offense. But the punishment shouldn’t resemble a punishment for murdering people. It should be a misdemeanor and no more.
NO animal deserves to die like this you idiot.
That has to be one of the most idiotic things I’ve ever read, but there were no Wild Horses a few decades. Where did you dream that one up, that the wild horses in America are released pets? Idiotic oh, and it’s pretty obvious you haven’t spent much time in the outdoors, particularly in Western States
Or, they should shoot the stupid sons of bitches who complained about selling the meat when horses have to be culled and then legislated it so.
what dirt did the horses have on Killary?
Now now. You’re going to make the snowflakes upset.
Don’t want them to have upset feeeeeellllliiinnnngs.
Wild horses have been all over since at least the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. Not to mention some that escaped from the time of Columbus. And here you are, saying that a few decades ago there were no such thing as wild horses. LOL
Up until 1969 wild horses were considered a resource. Then the Feds got involved and their numbers have skyrocketed along with the problems they cause.
I have often said that it was more humane when people would take the pick of the litter and quickly dispatch the rest. Now there is a whole industry of “saving” the extra unwanted pets. They are pushed off on people that aren’t ready for them and they make more unwanted pets.
Let the flaming begin...
So you don’t support hunting? Or how a slaughter house conducts killing?
Absolutely I support hunting and the humane slaughter of animals for food. I do not support trophy hunting though. We have huge animal problems in FL and they are getting worse. Bears have taken over my town and I support hunting for control. I DO NOT AND NEVER WILL support some nut killing animals in this manner. That person should be treated the same as they treated the horses.
Nazi leaders were noted for love of their pets and for certain animals, notably apex predators like the wolf and the lion. Hitler, a vegetarian and hater of hunting, adored dogs and spent some of his final hours in the company of Blondi, whom he would take for walks outside the bunker at some danger to himself. He had a particular enthusiasm for birds and most of all for wolves. [...] Goebbels said, famously, ‘The only real friend one has in the end is the dog. . . The more I get to know the human species, the more I care for my Benno.’ Goebbels also agreed with Hitler that ‘meat eating is a perversion in our human nature,’ and that Christianity was a ‘symptom of decay’, since it did not urge vegetarianism. [...] On the one hand, monsters of cruelty towards their fellow humans; on the other, kind to animals and zealous in their interest. In their very fine essay on such contradictions, Arnold Arluke and Boria Sax offer three observations. One, as just noted, many Nazi leaders harboured affection towards animals but antipathy to humans. Hitler was given films by a maharaja which displayed animals killing people. The Führer watched with equanimity. Another film showed humans killing animals. Hitler covered his eyes and begged to be told when the slaughter was over.[29]
I doubt it. From reading between the lines I think these may have been abandoned horses that different people and a rescue group took care of.
Some background on such horses.
I have no feeling for cretins who would go and shoot up 15 horses for no reason. I think the same thing should happen to the perp, and then throw their utterly worthless carcass down the mine, into eternal oblivion. This is so disgusting, and there is absolutely no excuse anyone could offer which would suffice. Poor things.
Are you familiar with horse slaughter?
Horses are prey animals with an extreme sense of danger. Unlike when cattle are led to slaughter, the horses instinct of danger kicks in and they basically go wild in the shoots and are hard to get a clean kill shot in the head. Many are injured during the process of leading them in. This is what the animal rights activists use to portray the cruelty of horse slaughter.
You are correct that many people buy horses as you described and some release of them in the wild. Others simply cannot afford to feed them and they also release them. This can create huge ecological problems as horses are designed to eat almost constantly and they will eat the wild grasses down to the ground and then pull the roots out and eat them too. That is why you typically see horses in dirt pens because they have eaten all the ground cover and in relatively short time there is no more grasses to forage so they move on.
Until people realize that horses need to be slaughtered as humanely as possible, this cycle will continue.
What happened here was nothing more than evil and no animal should be hunted just for the pleasure of seeing it done.
And yes, I do raise and breed horses as they are truly a magnificent animal if trained properly. But they are also a huge pain in the ass, as a bored horse can be quite destructive and even harmful to themselves.
Uh, we've had wild horses in our area for over 150 years.
I’m a city slicker.
If they’re that much of a menace in numbers and damage, then there should be legal ways to put them down like with dogs and cats.
Hate to sound cold but I don’t know what the overpopulation is like. It sounds kinda bad.
This most likely took several people and , or, several days as the horses would have run at the first shot.
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