For Wild Horses, It's Ride Or Die (HBO)

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7 жыл бұрын

Last week congressional Republicans, led by H Morgan Griffith, revived a procedural rule from 1876 - the Holman rule - which allows any member of Congress to propose amending an appropriations bill to single out a government employee or cut a specific program. That means a federal employee’s salary could be cut to $1 and any program could be given a budget of $0. Griffith’s charge to enact the old rule came after he found out it costs $80 million to look after wild horses on federal land.
VICE News travels to the open rangeland of Nevada to document how the Bureau of Land Management deals with a large scale problem plaguing open land: wild horses. Overpopulation means that the wild horses destroy the land so Bureau of Land Management officials need to corral them into pens and care for them at a high cost to the US government. From there things get complicated - activists want to train the horses so they can be adopted; some conservationists have a more hard lined idea, suggesting the horses should be killed.
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@MrSunny421 7 жыл бұрын

any ecosystem without predators will be unbalanced, the herbivores overrun the land without predation. By returning predators to these areas you remove the cost to government, horses can remain wild, and no life is wasted.

@myfriendoretheshepherd6618 5 жыл бұрын

Brian Delight you think horses don’t have predators? What about the mountain lion...what about bob cat, what about bears? Dude you really need to read up on this!

@auagpreper176 5 жыл бұрын

@@myfriendoretheshepherd6618 wolf's as well

@bad_bass_trout6625 5 жыл бұрын

My friend Ore The Shepherd there aren’t any bears, wolves, or bobcats in this part of Nevada with very few mountain lions scattered here and there, also introducing any unfamiliar organism into an environment is potentially dangerous and harmful to the ecosystem, thus we shouldn’t release predators. The only logical solution is to euthanize the horses to reduce damage done to the lands. Just a reminder, we wouldn’t kill all of the horses just regulate the population

@DonVergas-100 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing wolves can’t handle

@KeithTreason 4 жыл бұрын

@@bad_bass_trout6625 Preditors used to be widespread across the precolonial US, Nevada included, so I wouldn't call them unfamiliar organisms. Yellowstone was without its wolf population for over almost 100 years but its introduction was successful in dealing with the elk overpopulation.

@dianeevans6166 2 жыл бұрын

No mention of how livestock dominate horse management areas (HMAs) on the average of 13 to 1!! Until this issue is addressed, there is no resolution. Fertility control with unscientific Appropriate Management Levels (AMLs) established is not a viable solution.

@KillaWhale209 7 жыл бұрын

I have an answer to this problem.lets start riding horses and stop driving cars!

@Arabainleadmare0123 7 жыл бұрын

Possible solution: capture-> neuter/spay-> tag/brand to identify the sterile horses when there is a round up -> release. It's a permanent sterilization solution.

@Tearakan 7 жыл бұрын

Arabainleadmare0123 Way too expensive compared to regular culling of herds. All we have to do is act like natural predators and then the horses will have healthy population sizes.

@starwarswookiepedia4301 6 жыл бұрын

To spay a horse you have to take out the uterus and many major organs and doing that to most horses would cause them to suffer

@johnnymcblaze 6 жыл бұрын

Then they would stay on the land. Not an option.

@carlosspiceyweiner740 5 жыл бұрын

They'll be shunned from the herds and will be unable to band up if they can't breed. The other horses will know and push them out, horses can't survive on their own

@mary_2637 5 жыл бұрын

They are currently doing so with some herds but you can't do that over night

@VICENews 7 жыл бұрын

Last week congressional Republicans, led by H Morgan Griffith, revived a procedural rule from 1876 - the Holman rule - which allows any member of Congress to propose amending an appropriations bill to single out a government employee or cut a specific program. That means a federal employee’s salary could be cut to $1 and any program could be given a budget of $0. Griffith’s charge to enact the old rule came after he found out it costs $80 million to look after wild horses on federal land. VICE News travels to the open rangeland of Nevada to document how the Bureau of Land Management deals with a large scale problem plaguing open land: wild horses. Overpopulation means that the wild horses destroy the land so Bureau of Land Management officials need to corral them into pens and care for them at a high cost to the US government. From there things get complicated - activists want to train the horses so they can be adopted; some conservationists have a more hard lined idea, suggesting the horses should be killed. Read the full article here - bit.ly/2iSUX1M Watch: "Thousands of Indians want to reinstate a bull-taming festival and ban PETA" - bit.ly/2jV0GWq

@rayfordcarpathia4015 7 жыл бұрын

Start horse season and the government can charge for hunting permits. They can also tax the horses bagged.

@-g--knox-2704 5 жыл бұрын

I'm from Reno Nevada I always go up to the mountains and see the horses sometimes I feed them chocolate😂😂

@cameronsipka3352 7 жыл бұрын

what A good episode. I cried the whole thing

@TheBic4 7 жыл бұрын

How does horse's desctruction of habitats differ than when buffalo did?

@saulmartinez4554 5 жыл бұрын

🐎 horses are such WONDERFUL animals FANTASTIC ilove it THANKS for the VIDEO!!!🐎

@amosjsoma 7 жыл бұрын

I tried to watch this video but would have had to sit through a 30 second commercial to do so. I'll sprout wings and fly to Mars before that will happen.

@tracksideracing9188 6 жыл бұрын

THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO (TRACKSIDE RACING) 🏇THANKS AGAIN 🏇

@RKLIFE17 7 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of info coming that suggests horses actually never left America prior to the Spanish bringing their horses here.

@Child_of_Amun 7 жыл бұрын

I wish I could catch one or three, I want to start my ranch...one day I suppose.

@a.k6839 5 жыл бұрын

Ship horses that are not adopted to other countries where they can still be released in the wild instead of killing them.

@ChandlerJong 7 жыл бұрын

... horses we currently have were brought to the Americas by the Spaniards long before the British or French... just a FYI

@longforgotten4823 7 жыл бұрын

Chandler Jong just for your information the Americas actually had the first horses. They died off after the retreat of the last Ice Age.

@ChandlerJong 7 жыл бұрын

I learned something new. Cool information. The horses in the North America that lived in the plains died around 15,000 to 12,500 years ago. Theories goes from human interaction or global climate changes around that time period. Interesting :)

@longforgotten4823 7 жыл бұрын

Chandler Jong I am glad I could give you some new information!

@asifmetal666 5 жыл бұрын

2:40 That activist r so well fed. No clue about what's going on in the world

@vampiredruhlegh1611 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@bubbajo9089 5 жыл бұрын

just add a lot more mountain lions or something but DONT YOU SHOOT MY HORSEY

@Cdmxforever 7 жыл бұрын

Shame on you Republicans!! Leave the horse's alone!! Sterilize Republicans!!

@birdinmotion1525 7 жыл бұрын

rover09151976em you obviously aren't even considering the consequences of the horses . things die, get over it. I love horses but let's look at the facts: there are too many horses in the wild, it costs millions of dollars to sterilize them, and that would need to be done yearly. I'm sorry you're a good person and I know you care for animals but sometimes you got to do what is best for the longevity of the situation.

@dirtypure2023 7 жыл бұрын

rover09151976em I think you're ignoring just how nuanced this issue is for the sake of making a political statement. That left vs right mentality helps none of us. Stop preaching divide and maybe we can all find a better way through unity and solidarity.

@flaplaya 7 жыл бұрын

Mikey I agree but first the idiocy of both sides must show going forward. I see very little from the left that seemed bad. Obama was forced to do drone strikes and everything else labeled bad. Republican ranch owners are calling for destruction of all wild equine species.

@dirtypure2023 7 жыл бұрын

Brandon Toad The toxicity is pervasive across the entire political spectrum.

@shabbarraja2803 5 жыл бұрын

America has some really beautiful horses

@kr0pp 7 жыл бұрын

If America had any normal number of wolves left, this would hardly be a problem.

@kuwaitdaplace 5 жыл бұрын

Let me give another point of view to this documentary. I live right where this was filmed in Reno. The other problem this story doesn’t show is how many horses are dying from being hit by cars and starvation. If you get a chance, look up USA parkway and how horses are killed by cars and trucks on a daily basis and how those horses kill people in cars and motorcycles. The horses are also eating so much of the vegetation in some areas that they are starving and many look very unhealthy. I personally have almost hit them on multiple occasions. They are not wild, they will walk right up to you and they have no fear of vehicles. They are like the Canadian geese of large mammals. My solution is open up season on them or sell the horses to a country like Canada who can harvest the meat. Coming from someone who actually lives in wild horse country, I know the burden they create.

@olivdb23 7 жыл бұрын

Horse steaks are amazing... Is there in US?

@ShatterTheSkiesAbove 7 жыл бұрын

The world needs more people like Nancy.

@AR-nt5vx 5 жыл бұрын

Horses were built to run hundreds of miles I'm sure that 5 or 10 miles at a time is not going to hurt them at all

@Ambelica 5 жыл бұрын

If we hadnt of over hunted cougars and wolves, which were once the only enemies of wild horses, the population would be at least somewhat controlled by the natural predators of these animals . But because of the over hunting and threat that those same predators pose to cows and sheep, there is no longer that safety net to control horse population.

@luvmymuttdog 5 жыл бұрын

Only 70,000 wild horses? There used to be millions of bison roaming those same lands. They’re just filling a niche.

@kultiplexify 7 жыл бұрын

Horses _were_ part of the North American ecosystem but they died out about 11 thousand years ago. Meanwhile they flourished in the rest of the world. Since then the ecosystem had obviously changed and apparently they don't quite fit in anymore. You could say that it's the same situation with cats in Australia. However cats were _never_ native to the island. I think just killing horses off might be a bit drastic. I think they could blend in with the ecosystem but it'll obviously take some time, so birth control would be the best course of action in my opinion.

@phillipyoung6573 7 жыл бұрын

Evolutionary speaking if they truly died out when the elk, buffalo etc did than they were gone only for 22 hours out of a year equivalent. Not enough time for the ecology/ecosystem to change except in the introduction of nonnative plants by man...such as cheat grass. America really needs to say we are tired of false population accounts. We have 100,000 elk in the same areas as the 20,000 (realistic estimate) horse/burro and over several million cattle. These areas are just a small fraction public lands.

@daliaruiz3598 5 жыл бұрын

Ranchers have been there the least time. Greedy lazy ranchers that don't move their cows are the problem. Do roam the cows and the land will get better.

@DSAEWE09 7 жыл бұрын

i wanna horse please 🐴

@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth 7 жыл бұрын

DSAEWE09 great idea ,, bring some into human pets and birth control is met...

@somalisavage3714 5 жыл бұрын

Hard to tame wild horses

@carlosspiceyweiner740 5 жыл бұрын

First you have to be trained and literally go to school on how to handle, care for them, ride properly, because if you don't learn any of those things it will end up abused in your hands. Because believe it or not you can seriously injure a horse if you cannot ride properly no matter how much you wiegh.

@jimrawles6452 7 жыл бұрын

I suggest that we ship them live (on the hoof) to France, free of charge. I'm sure that the French will know how to take care of them.

@akayoshi1 7 жыл бұрын

What animal hunts horses?

@Enochthegreat71 5 жыл бұрын

Shooting wild brummies has been going on for a long time in Australia and anything else that moves eg. Camels, kangaroos etc.

@ayoitsyayo 5 жыл бұрын

I guess horse season is open

@CDN_Bookmouse 5 жыл бұрын

Refusing to kill prey animals but killing predators will obviously lead to overpopulation. Apex predators like wolves are necessary to naturally control prey numbers

@Dmichoacan 5 жыл бұрын

They should round them up and have horse markets in the cities. I would trade my car for a horse any day.

@carrieburk1567 7 жыл бұрын

I love horses I don't won't them killed, stop being rude to horses, let them live. Dont tear our history apart. Get people to adopt them.

@aleonard4356 7 жыл бұрын

why not make stallions geldings ?

@diefenbaker7853 6 жыл бұрын

A Leonard When you castrate a stallion you change his attitude, he is more gentle and will be less protective of his herd. The lead mare would probably force him away from the herd so she could find another dominate stallion. The best solution is dart mares with birth control. Instead of hiring helicopters to round up horses and men/women on the ground to herd them into pens and trucks put these same people to work darting the animals.

@minmax5 7 жыл бұрын

wow this is such a nuanced complicated issue, and i can see the perspective of all the people here, deffinetly something to think about...

@Joluse1954 5 жыл бұрын

Por que no buscan un acuerdo con el pais de Mongolia

@alafairxvx 5 жыл бұрын

HORSES DON'T NEED BIRTH CONTROL. THE ROOT OF THIS PROBLEM IS THE CATTLE RANCHERS

@flaplaya 7 жыл бұрын

You call that damage, from 70k horses? There are 70k toxic waste dumps in one state in the USA. Please let those horses do as they please out on federal land. It's the beef industry bitching and complaining and I love a good steak. Anyone who rounds them up for the for profit dog food industry is smoking drugs. Glad both sides are shown here. Only eat humane.

@flaplaya 7 жыл бұрын

Oh and btw the USA is infiltrated by Bat Shit Crazy out of towners pretending to be American.. Sad part now: Trump will listen to all of them.

@diefenbaker7853 6 жыл бұрын

When you castrate a stallion you change his attitude, he is more gentle and will be less protective of his herd. The lead mare would probably force him away from the herd so she could find another dominate stallion. The best solution is dart mares with birth control. Instead of hiring helicopters to round up horses and men/women on the ground to herd them into pens and trucks put these same people to work darting the animals.

@unleashedrider4309 5 жыл бұрын

there have been way more horses on north america and it was fine then. so its fine now

@abdullaali1799 7 жыл бұрын

Sell them?

@mdonig 5 жыл бұрын

Wolves are the answer plain and simple. And if you manage to get areas with both horses, Bison, and Elk you can even start have lions roaming the west 😁

@fkedupworld3833 7 жыл бұрын

Why exactly should we be doijg anything about these horses? Are they distroying some piece of desert that no one is using anyway? Leave the horses alone!

@Gigi10001 5 жыл бұрын

Can you tame wild horses?

@jennyphay7834 5 жыл бұрын

To cut down on the growing population of mustangs why don’t they just castrate the stallions?

@williardpalomar9092 7 жыл бұрын

How about selling them..? to other countries perhaps...

@daliaruiz3598 5 жыл бұрын

Totally let's get rid of the ranchers.

@lilblankiesama269 5 жыл бұрын

I've never had horse meat before.

@devonwingard9170 5 жыл бұрын

they tear familys apart??? there ANIMALS!!!!

@JustNatax3 5 жыл бұрын

" Sold or shipped off to long term enclosures " Are you fucking serious??? Meat dealers buy them for a few dollars each and truck them off in multiple day (!) trips to Mexico where horse slaughter is legal. And then the horses who survived that torture become "dog food".

@coltstiles6864 7 жыл бұрын

Why not just fix the horses they catch, tag, and release?

@eddiecruzito5066 5 жыл бұрын

80 Million a year?? On what

@reaper215 5 жыл бұрын

I can tell almost everyone on here who commented here probably has never seen a live horse, probably never ridden a horse, and knows nothing of land management and stewardship. I've ridden horses as long as I can walk, and ferrel horses will destroy land, and starve out native animals.

@TRICHOMETRIST 7 жыл бұрын

foreclosing on horses #SWAMP LIFE

@Landsknecht89 7 жыл бұрын

make mustang-slami

@fpahsgksqjsdl 7 жыл бұрын

why not import tigers & lions to get them horses

@tabel4844 5 жыл бұрын

Or maybe they should shift their efforts towards the rehabilitation and protection of Nevada's native predators. Let nature sort it out.

@leealexander3507 5 жыл бұрын

Most of the BLM horses are from primarily domestic stock. A variety of grade domestic horses who have become feral.

@Superhrnet 7 жыл бұрын

I have always wanted to try horse meat. It's hard to convince people to do away with their cultural icons. Mustangs represent freedom, stubborness, and an individual connection to the land that is captured so fondly in American nostalgia. For some people, eliminating these animals is the same as eliminating those ideals, and acknowledging that they are unreasonable standards to live by, even though a cull is probably better for the entire ecosystem.

@theoverman1559 7 жыл бұрын

Can't kill horse's ! Just catch them and race there babies .

@allie5720 5 жыл бұрын

I mean these horses Were there first and Now ur suddenly like “oh We need to Kill Them” i mean wtf

@lydia958 5 жыл бұрын

I know

@Renault-v10 4 жыл бұрын

Can I have one?

@DanielPerez-ek9rr 7 жыл бұрын

there better not start shooting these beautiful animals wtf

@samjensen8095 5 жыл бұрын

I'm against horses I'm against the rancher grazing public land

@cazzaandherjourneytofindar9112 5 жыл бұрын

Just introduce more wolves, they are naturally occurring and would hunt the horses in moderation and with the purpose of a meal

@emilys9745 5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, the wild horse issue will probably go on for quite some time due to the close, emotional, and anthropomorphic attitudes we have given these creatures. Many horses have also been abandoned or sold internationally. People don't want the horse slaughterhouses to continue in the U.S. to the effect that they are now being sent to countries with no understanding of how to humanely and safely handle these animals before being processed.

@LeGheyTrash 5 жыл бұрын

I mean horses were originally from North America, so we pretty much reintroduce them back to the Americas

@lukeanthony9937 7 жыл бұрын

aren't there any predators?

@Tonybmw1988 7 жыл бұрын

Luke Anthony the horse is not native to north america and thus has no place in its ecosystem.

@lukeanthony9937 7 жыл бұрын

Tonybmw1988 I get that they not indigenous, but shouldn't there have been some form of predation on the horses?

@Tearakan 7 жыл бұрын

Luke Anthony only really small amounts of wolves and bears. Most only live in national parks. So we have to take up that role. It is natural for a herd to be culled and if you don't do it then the herd gets sick and many more animals could die of disease and starvation. Happens with deer in a few areas in the Midwest.

@lukeanthony9937 7 жыл бұрын

Tearakan so alot of people don't see they doing more harm than good if they don't cull the herds

@maryamismael7756 7 жыл бұрын

Luke Anthony ло8щ8

@bwolf19 7 жыл бұрын

its not like people go out to the middle of nowhere nevada, so why care about horses 'messing up' the land

@elmayohandez5317 5 жыл бұрын

Bring them to Kenya please

@crystalsparky6516 4 жыл бұрын

I just got to say this but THATS RUDE FOR ME TO THROW A DART AT A HORSE ITS A HORSE THAT HURTS SOOOOO BAD FOR THE HORSE ugh people dont treat people good thats very bad they need to go to school and learn how to treat a horse better then throwing a dart

@atl.111 5 жыл бұрын

Before there were humans on the earth, the animals had every inch of this land. How do we feel it's okay for us to kill them so we can make life easier on us? That's so fucked up. This land is your land, this land is my land. It should stand for EVERYONE & EVERY LIVING THING.

@HorsieCloppenHoof 5 жыл бұрын

🤔

@katelynfankhauser4345 5 жыл бұрын

Such a hard subject to talk about. I will never be for the euthanasia of a healthy animal because it's on public lands. Every animal is an individual and deserves to live in peace. It's not fair. I bet if they came up with a permanent sterilization program people would donate and ensure the horses well being.

@DPBathroomJockey 6 жыл бұрын

"We aren't doing a good job... but I think we're trying" - which is exactly why the public has issues with the BLM aka it's mismanagement of well... everything.

@tumblewitt2671 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a job for wolves.

@ExopMan 7 жыл бұрын

I understand it's difficult, we feel a lot of empathy with horses, but killing them is probably the best realistic option. I live in Connecticut and we've had a white-tail deer problem in my area for a long time that is controlled with a hunting season. People just don't care as much about deer and are okay with it. Arguably, horses are just big deer we like more because they're less ugly and can ride. Btw, I'm not a hunter.

@Tearakan 7 жыл бұрын

ExopMan Same here in the suburbs of Chicago. Way too many deer no wolves and coyotes aren't big or fast enough to catch them. We usually end up culling whole herds because they get too big.

@kurtilein3 7 жыл бұрын

That is not an invasive species, you only have to hunt them because you earlier hunted the appropriate predators into local extinction.

@The_yeffy1 7 жыл бұрын

i live in CT what extinction are you referring too we have WAY to many coyotes that kids cant wait at bus stops anymore and bobcats are making a comeback here too we kill deer every year they just reproduce to fast and because of the massive estates with exotic trees on them they are healthy and never have to venture out into the wilderness

@kurtilein3 7 жыл бұрын

Jcurvs99 coyotes and bobcats cannot do much against deer or the invasive wild horses. You need wolves for that.

@carrieburk1567 7 жыл бұрын

ExopMan I love horses we can't just kill them. they could be broke and be adopted by good loving people.

@maxsolis9639 5 жыл бұрын

Can they just bring in wolves, cougars or any large predators to control the population? The reason there are so many of them is due to the lack of predators to hunt them. If there are little to no predators, it will lead animals to over populate. When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone it had a positive affect on the ecosystem, controlling the population of elk and deer.

@tobyjenny7622 5 жыл бұрын

This whay the government should not to have been able to regulate the horses ranchers should be able to catch some for their own use.

@alfonsoramirez2220 7 жыл бұрын

nature will do the process just let them be.

@Tearakan 7 жыл бұрын

alfonso ramirez No it won't, most predators are gone in these areas, so they have unchecked growth. Eventually the herd will spread disease and begin to starve. It is inhumane to keep them at this level of population.

@obsoleteoptics 7 жыл бұрын

Tearakan Same logic could be applied to humans.

@longforgotten4823 7 жыл бұрын

Tearakan The natural predators need to be re-introduced.

@thAC0gurl 7 жыл бұрын

Long Forgotten the problem with reintroduction of natural predators is NIMBY mindset. Just look at Yellowstone National Park. They still have issues even after all of these years with locals killing wolves that expand their territories outside the boundaries of the national park if predation of livestock occurs.

@jameswood6121 5 жыл бұрын

Why do we interfere, just let them be?

@mogheen 6 жыл бұрын

Are they not worth money?

@brendenlindley6916 5 жыл бұрын

Most of these people don't even ride horses and think wild horses are pets if you put in a pen and you turned your back they'd paw you down they'd sure wanna kill the horses then

@MohitSharma-je4hg 4 жыл бұрын

Why don't you export them to countries which depend on livestock and have pastures to feed these horses...India has great demand for horses....similarly it in the case of Nepal, Bhutan.... Send the 4-6 months old to other poor countries reach in vegetation for their use..... Having open areas for these horses to feed, we humans have created political boundaries animals don't know....

@charleskuhn382 6 жыл бұрын

Lets introduce predators

@leonjacobs3426 7 жыл бұрын

give the horses to poor people who cant afford cars

@rachw7773 6 жыл бұрын

leon jacobs can't afford. a car then they definetly can't afford a horse !

@TerranTaro 5 жыл бұрын

horses require much more care than a car.... just with feed and daily care alone

@calgal5752 5 жыл бұрын

leon jacobs You must not be a horse owner! They cost way more than a car....

@marycombs9099 5 жыл бұрын

leon jacobs the expense of a horse is way more than a car.... hay is about $100 a big round bale straw is about $25-50 a big round bale. A bag of feed is $12 a shed to house the animal is at least $800( for a cheap one) vet bills can cost thousands training will set you back at least a grand and a full set of tack brushes and general maintenance ( farrier, fly spray, upkeep on tack and other equipment) will probably set you back another grand now a horse eats about 25lbs of hay a day and a big round bale is about 1100lbs so you do the math but as a person who has three horses I can tell you, you need to either be able to grow your own hay and have the equipment to bale and move it( you can add thousands more dollars for that) you are gonna spent way more money on a horse an a cheap $800 car

@Horselover-pf7ow 5 жыл бұрын

They could abuse that horse

@judithwalker3600 7 жыл бұрын

Bring back wolves.

@ilikebeans4138 5 жыл бұрын

It is cruel

@cradjisa 7 жыл бұрын

Why not just sell them to other countries?

@Siezemore 7 жыл бұрын

Eat them. Horse is succulent.

@pdc4930 7 жыл бұрын

Why not open it up to hunting? We do that for other invasive species?

@obsoleteoptics 7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Cox Humans are an invasive species. Should we hunt them too?

@jtyler6288 7 жыл бұрын

Brett Wolff Yes, lol!

@chinesesparrows 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah tell the native indians that

@myfriendoretheshepherd6618 5 жыл бұрын

Horses are NOT an invasive species. Before you make an off the cuff comment like that, go do some of your very own research and then make a rational decision about this issue. You’ll be very surprised by what you find. The first place to look, the BLM LOBBYISTS who are paid over 80 million dollars a year by the cattle ranches to get the mustang lands for their cattle.

@HaunaMyKiki 5 жыл бұрын

TNR them. Like with what is done with feral cats. There will always be wild horses, but there'd be far less population growth if the horses we have now were permanently sterilized.

@mothereric8774 7 жыл бұрын

What about introducing a natural predator? Do these horses not have any?

@longforgotten4823 7 жыл бұрын

MotherEric I bet they did but man has a way of getting rid of top predators.

@phillipyoung6573 7 жыл бұрын

A study shows a foal in the wild has a 50% chance of surviving one year in todays world. Born during the winter, snakes, ticks, sickly, injury etc. Natural selection for all wildlife seems cruel but to be stuck in a holding pin with people fighting over kill or not to kill is better and free. Check out Cloud the Stallion a slow but informative doc. Many of his offspring and others were lost to cougars. Once again the overpopulation is only propaganda so any control other than a occasional bait trap adoption is not necessary.

@longforgotten4823 7 жыл бұрын

Phillip Young they should stop messing with nature.

@md.islamulhoquerony3820 5 жыл бұрын

Killing is not a right option. You guys can export those to other country.

@md.islamulhoquerony3820 5 жыл бұрын

Many countrys still using horses for various purpose. By this process u guys can control horses number without killing them.

@mikelowe4933 6 жыл бұрын

no killing not the answer control the breeding

@unsc2060 7 жыл бұрын

Had hoarse meat in Germany. Was pretty good...just sayin'...nice animals to pet and interact with...but taste just as good...

@ronaldfrancovegaii5248 7 жыл бұрын

instead of euthanasia to wild horses, give them to the other country who needs horses. here in our place we are willing to accept those wild horses

@thAC0gurl 7 жыл бұрын

Ronald Franco Vega II couple of problems; these are wild horses, not broken to bit, bridle, saddle or harness. Second, transportation of horses is very expensive. Third, introducing these non-native horses would require long periods of quarantine which is also expensive. I love animals as much as the next person but like deer, coyote, and wild hogs, when a population grows unchecked by the ecosystem we do need to intervene with culling. Otherwise the population as a whole suffers preventable disease and watching animals starve to death b/c of lack of food is torture. Quality of life is just as important as life itself. I personally have watched deer starve to death during hard winters and it isn't pleasant. I would much rather have a hunter cull the herd on my property and feed their family that watch and animal die if starvation, which imho is the same as torture.