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    I've been asked to forward this to fellow horse people.
    
    Pat Fredrickson
    Natural Horse Halters
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "W. Lamm" <willis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Subject: Help Give a Wild Horse a Merry Christmas
    
    
    > PLEASE CROSS POST WHERE APPLICABLE.
    >
    > Hi, Folks, it's Willis again with an update on the Comstock Wild Horse
    > Emergency Adoption Project.
    >
    > For anyone not familiar with this issue, the entire State of Nevada is a
    > formally declared agricultural disaster area.  The Virginia Range
    > Wildlife Protection Association has set up emergency feeding stations in
    > the highlands but bands of horses are continually wandering down into
    > civilized areas in search of food, getting struck by cars on highways,
    > etc.  The state can't relocate these horses as there is no range right
    > now that will support them, so they're all ending up in the state's
    > "horse pound" where they are held for a limited time to allow authorized
    > volunteer groups to try to place them.
    >
    > We've gotten 14 horses placed so far.  13 are still in private Foster
    > Care and the Nevada Dept. of Agriculture has another dozen or so that
    > need to be moved out soon.  (If they don't they'll run out their time
    > and end up at the Fallon Livestock Sale where the only folks buying wild
    > horses are the meat packers.)  The state is broke and is laying off
    > employees so appropriating more state funds to extend these horses'
    > holding times is not an option.
    >
    > We really don't want these animals to spend Christmas day in the holding
    > pens waiting to be shipped off like cattle to the Texas meat packers.
    >
    > December is a difficult month to adopt wild horses what with all the
    > family activities going on and folks spending money on family and
    > friends.  But there is something you all can do to help.
    
    > ":O) Willis
    >
    > (The attached image is from better times on the range.  If everyone
    > pitches in we can get most of these animals through the present crisis
    > to better times ahead.)
    
    
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