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Re: [RC] BLM adoptions at rides. - Heidi Smith

Well everyone is entitled to their own opinion and so I am going to voice
mine.  I wholeheartedly disagree with most of this post.  I am president
of
an organization here in the intermountain region (Intermountain Wild Horse
& Burro Advisors, Inc.) we mentor people in the area that adopt wild
horses.  The techniques we use can be used by even the newest horse owner
that is interested in learning.  We also gentle several horses for each
adoption in the state of Utah.  These horses are all gentled by
volunteers,
many who do not own horses (some who never have) that want to learn.  And
we are getting great results.

Janet, your post dealt mostly with gentling the mustangs--a topic on which I
did not even touch in my post.   So I don't know how you can say you
disagree with "most of my post" by simply addressing issues of gentling.

I've seen several who "gentled" just fine.  My issues have to do with the
qualities of the horses themselves and the farcical romantic notions, the
ineptness of the entire government management of the feral horses, etc.  I
also feel that having AERC get into the "business" of aiding in the adoption
program flies in the face of the many AERC members who work their fingers to
the bone to breed quality endurance horses.

Heidi


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