Ridecamp: Re: [RC] [Guest] Mustangs to Mexico?/

I'm going to fire away, and I say "Bravo" for your courage to say what you
did, and also the wisdom.  I think you're right on.  We have cattle on our
ranch, and it's too easy for preservationists to blame the cattlemen for
just about anything they want...destruction of habitat, frogs, snakes,
flowers.  It behooves the cattlemen not to overgraze the land, and it just
doesn't make sense to have wild horses, or any other animal, overbreeding
the space they are allotted to live in.  In the wilderness with native wild
animals, they manage to balance their numbers somehow.  But wild and feral
horses don't seem to be able to do that as well, I guess.  Odd.....park
service personnel went out and shot a lot of feral burros....on the Channel
Islands off So. CA coast, in Death Valley; but somehow the horse is
considered more sacred than other species.   I think all animals are
special, but unless they control their own numbers, or the predators do it
for them, then what?  Wild horses should overgraze the land and starve to
death?

Barbara

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From: "Ridecamp Guest" <ridecamp-moderator@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: [RC] [Guest] Mustangs to Mexico?/


> J. Brashier quitab@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> As a wild horse mentor, state advisor for the Mustang and Burro
association
> as well as a mustang owner, I had to write to this post.  The mustang
count
> is rising fast and the adoption program as well as the refuges can't keep
> up.  I check on adopted mustangs and some of the horrors I see rip my
heart
> out.  I also have information on the mustang bands that are overproducing
> and overgrazing, this is not due to the cattleman, but to the fact that we
> have protected the mustang to well.  Older horses and foals that would be
> handled by the natural selection of the fittest are surviving.  I have a
> mustang that I adopted 27 years ago that i would not give up for anything
> (which includes the husband), I also have another mustang mare that is
close
> to my heart, but these are exceptions not the rule.  If a quick death is
an
> option to some of the suffering I have seen at the hands of some adopters
> (even if it is for human consumption) I would vote for that.  We have
almost
> "loved" the mustang into a really hard life.  Fire away.  I have already
> heard anything that can be said about this subject.  I love the breed to
> much to see them protected in the manner they are in most places.
>
>
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