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Action Alert: Protect the Wild Horses of Wyoming’s Red Desert

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The following update is from American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign 

Comment deadline: October 9, 2015

Photo: Casper TribuneThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting public comments on an environmental analysis (EA) of a massive helicopter roundup and removal of nearly 2,000 wild horses living in Wyoming’s Red Desert Complex, which includes the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek and Stewart Creek Herd Management Areas (HMAs). The action would leave behind just 480 horses on this 700,000-acre (more than 1,000-square-mile) public lands area!
The EA ignores over 6,000 public scoping comments submitted earlier this year calling for the humane management of Red Desert wild horses on the range with PZP fertility control, and for humane capture methods, instead of using helicopters to chase horses into holding pens. Alternative 2 — the Proposed Action in the EA — calls for removal of over 1,700 wild horses from the Complex — that’s 45% of the total estimated mustang population in the entire state — and includes the token application of PZP fertility control to just 23 mares. Alternative 1, a second alternative analyzed but not proposed in the EA, would more fully utilize fertility control and return more wild horses to the range, but would still permanently remove approximately 830 wild horses from the Complex. Both alternatives call for using traumatic helicopter capture methods.
It’s time to take a stand for Wyoming’s wild horses.  We must insist that the BLM stop ignoring the public andstart humanely managing the Red Desert wild horses on the range, allowing the horses within the HMAs to remain where they are on our public lands! The BLM should raise the “Appropriate” Management Levels (AMLs) for the Red Desert Complex wild horse populations. The BLM must fairly allocate range resources to ensure that wildlife — including wild horses — have a fair share of the forage on our public lands, rather than giving exorbitant resources to the privately-owned cattle and sheep operations.

Chilly Pepper Equine Rescue Update on Cowboy

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The following update is from Chilly Pepper Equine Rescue 

Cowboy is doing wonderfully. He has been getting tiny little corrective trims and treatments on his lil hoofers and it is already helping his hind legs. We still need lots of prayers for this little one, but he is progressing a tiny bit each day.

LatelCowboyy, he has enjoyed being able to spend most nights with his real mama Lacy.

We were truly blessed to find some inexpensive labor and to get more shelter for the critters here, which ultimately is allowing us to take our 24 x 24 shelter over to where the 55 wild horses (less coming adoptions) are going to be spending their winter. We had no hay shelter to protect the hay and desperately needed one. We also were able to raise enough money to buy roofing materials for said shelter.

Unfortunately we still have a very long way to go in procuring a secure future for the wild ones. Our next project is putting up the shelters, fixing fence and adding additional fencing. Then we need to make sure we fill the hay barn and procure enough hay to make it through the upcoming winter for the group of wild ones in NV.

Fundraising is never easy or fun, but unfortunately very necessary as these horses, although thankful they were “saved from slaughter” actually want to eat every single day. :)

We have good news as the minute BLM found out about the 3 orphans needing the emergency hernia surgery they said thank you for the offer, but they would be happy to pay for the surgeries for the 3 orphans. So that just leaves us with Cowboy, (who is technically not an orphan due to the fact his mama is here), but needs special care so I kind of think of him that way, and Cicero and Honey who are “slaughter babies” (their mama’s were killed and slaughtered). Cicero and Honey are ready for their forever homes.

Tim Hayes Harnesses Equine’s Healing Touch

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The following excerpt  is from an article by Ken Picard published at Seven Days 

animals1-1a-979f4b17ef160b5dTim Hayes first recognized horses’ power to heal when he saw a burly gang member from South Central Los Angeles come face-to-face with a wild mustang — and his own true nature.

It was 1996, and Hayes, then a TV commercial producer in New York City and amateur horseman, had traveled to a federal super-max prison in Florence, Colo., known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.” He went to observe the Wild Horse Inmate Program, established in 1986 by the Bureau of Land Management and the Colorado Department of Corrections to “gentle,” or tame, free-roaming horses from the American plains before they’re put up for adoption. The recidivism rate of WHIP inmates is half the national average.

Hayes watched Morris, the former LA Crip who’d never been around a real horse before, confront a thousand-pound snorting, kicking and thrashing beast. In that moment, Hayes remembers, Morris seemed to see himself in the mustang’s wild eyes: not a violent, rage-filled killer who’d once crushed a man’s skull with a car door, but a terrified creature who had to fight just to stay alive.

“They act tough, but I think they just scared. Yeah, they ain’t mean,” Hayes recalls Morris telling him afterward about the horse — and himself. “Maybe once you get to trust ’em, they trust you.”

Hayes spent a week with WHIP inmates. In that short time, he witnessed an incredible transformation in Morris and other men whom society had written off as beyond redemption.

 

UPDATE: BLM Advisory Board Meeting Signals Dark Clouds for Wild Horses & Burros

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The following update from is from AWHP, written by Suzanne Roy

logo_2The BLM held its second, and final, Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting of 2015 on September 2nd and 3rd in Oklahoma City, OK.  Of all the board meetings I have attended since 2009, this was by far the most ominous. Emboldened by years of BLM’s crisis-creating, the pro-slaughter majority on this board is now openly endorsing slaughter as a solution to the BLM’s budget woes. These members, who overwhelmingly represent livestock interests, are also aiming to reduce wild horse numbers below the already ridiculously low allowable population levels.

The BLM Wild Horse and Burro (WH&B) program, under the leadership of Dean Bolstad, a long-time BLM bureaucrat, seems only happy to comply. In fact, after the pro-slaughter board members spoke explicitly about the need to overturn Congressional ban that prevents the BLM from selling wild horses and burros for slaughter, Bolstad commented that, of the 49 board meetings he has attended since 2003, this was the best one yet.

In 2013, the National Academy of Sciences evaluated the BLM’s WH&B Program and concluded that “continuation of ‘business as usual’ practices will be expensive and unproductive for the BLM and the public it serves.” Undaunted by this warning, the BLM is continuing down the same destructive path, announcing at the meeting:

  • Expansion of helicopter roundup contracts to include three companies, including Sun J Livestock, which was found previously to have engaged in “unprofessional” conduct, including the electro-shocking of wild horses.
  • Scaling up removals under the guise of sage grouse protection.
  • Spending over 70% of the budget to round up and warehouse horses, while continuing to spend less than 1% on humane fertility control to manage wild horse populations on the range.
  • Spending millions on research, much of which is aimed at perfecting techniques to permanently sterilize wild horses on the range.
  • Meeting with Congress to share its self-inflicted budget woes, with the goal of overturning the ban on selling captured wild horses and burros “without limitation” that would enable kill buyers to purchase large numbers of wild horses and burros for slaughter.

Court Gives BLM Green Light to Destroy West Douglas Herd

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The following update is from The Cloud Foundation 

ZEROING OUT ENTIRE WILD HORSE HERD NOT VIEWED AS CONSTITUTING “IRREPARABLE HARM.”

Washington, DC (Sept. 15, 2015) – Today, Federal Judge Christopher R. Cooper denied a Preliminary Injunction to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from carrying out its decades old quest to remove the entire West Douglas wild horse herd. Tomorrow the BLM will begin a helicopter roundup and removal of wild horses in and around the herd area with the ultimate goal of zeroing out the herd (area).

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The lawsuit was brought by The Cloud Foundation (TCF), Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF), The Colorado Wild Horse and Burro Coalition (CWHBC), Dr. Don Moore and Toni Moore of Fruita, CO., and Barb Flores of Greeley, CO, to protect this herd and the neighboring Piceance East Douglas herd. “Sadly,” states Toni Moore, “the courts did not view the loss of an entire herd of wild horses as ‘irreparable harm.’ “

“Wiping out the West Douglas herd erases a whole distinct set of genetics, separate from nearby East Douglas horses,” states Linda Hanick, TCF Board member who testified in the Sept. 11 hearing on the case. “The roundup disregards the importance of the historic recorded documentation of these horses since Sept 1776. This roundup closes the door on an important piece of Colorado’s wild horse history.”

“We’re very disappointed of course,” states Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of TCF. “Wild horse families that have shared a history with this rugged Colorado landscape for hundreds of years will be swept away, while the real public land destroyers, the thousands of head of welfare livestock remain. It is terribly unfair, but we continue to fight for those wild herds that remain!”

“Rangeland impact of livestock in West Douglas is greater than 10 times the impact of wild horses,” states Barb Flores, plaintiff in the case who also testified in the Sept. 11 hearing. “Both use the area year round. While cattle are moved from pasture to pasture, wild horses migrate throughout the herd area on their own.”

Action Alert: Say NO to BLM Mine Expansion in Wild Horse Habitat

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The following update is from American Wild Horse Preservation  triple b horses blm photo

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) currently is accepting public comments on a plan to expand the Bald Mountain mining operation that will affect the wild horses living in the Triple B Herd Management Area (HMA) in White Pine County, Nevada. The proposed action will permanently remove 1,210 acres of already scarce vegetation available for wild horses, temporarily remove an additional 6,879 acres of currently available forage, reduce the amount of water available for wild horse use, increase the size of the area negatively impacted by human activity and noise, and pose a risk to wild horse safety and health by either physical injury or exposure to poisonous mercury and cyanide contamination, which is a byproduct of gold mining.

Comments must be received by September 28, 2015.

Help horses ROAR the loudest thru Oct 12!

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The following update is from All About Equine Rescue 

all about equine rescuePlease help The EQUUS Foundation win a bonus for  “Most Traffic” & “Fan Favorite” in addition to $100,000 in matching gift funds from Animal Planet by helping with this campaign from the EQUUS Foundation.

Horse lovers everywhere have from now through October 12 to prove that HORSES have the LOUDEST ROAR.

The EQUUS Foundation is the only horse charity of the seven in Animal Planet’s 2015 ROAR (Reach Out. Act. Respond) Campaign!

Helping horses ROAR is easy as 1, 2, 3:

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Helping the EQUUS Foundation in the Animal Planet ROAR Campaign will help horses everywhere! Let’s get ROARing!

Chilly Pepper Orphan Update

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The following update is from Chilly Pepper Equine Rescue 

Lil bitORPHAN UPDATE – Lil Bit is doing wonderfully. Her cast has been working and she is improving a little bit each day. We want to thank y’all as we have raised approximately half of her vet bills.

Cowboy is doing better. Due to the fact that he could not travel due to health issues, we were amazed and so thankful that by the time we could bring him to NV, we did not even need to do his casts on his legs. He will need some extremely delicate hoof trimming and some special supplements and meds, but his outlook seems to be much better than was expected. He is the baby that the local vet said might need to be euthanized. However our specialty is the critical foal care and we work so very hard on the “hopeless” cases that God puts in front of us. We do not search them out, but I truly believe, and our rescue is based on my belief that if God puts an injured creature in front of you, you darn well better give it the best care you can.

We spent the last couple of days transferring panels over to the new property we will be leasing for the 55 wild horses. The Let ’em Run Foundation has donated the use of all of their panels and a shelter to be used by the 55 Wild horses and the babies. There are several adoptions in the process and we will update you as soon as we have all the details. We are still needing lots of forever homes for these guys, but in the meantime we need to have the funds to support and care for them. It is an amazing property with tons of water. In this area and with the ongoing drought, the water alone is worth gold. Unfortunately, we will need to do a lot of repair on the fencing.

A Treasure Plucked for the Ruins

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The following story excerpt is by Susan Salk for Off Track Thoroughbreds.

Moons-Treasure-2012As seven dead horses lay strewn like garbage among the tall cane choking the desolate East Everglades property, Moon’s Treasure was lifted from hand to caring hand, as if on a magic carpet.

The Florida-bred chestnut stallion who was vanned off the Calder Race Track after a July 8, 2011 race was found wasting away on a putrid property where a paralyzed dog lay barking in the field, and a dead horse lay sprawled near the front door of a desolate farmhouse, says Laurie Waggoner of the South Florida SPCA.

Standing among the dead and the dying on a badly infected leg, the stallion, just six years old at the time, was emaciated and unremarkable in the overall picture of want and decay.

With the South Florida charity too swamped to accommodate the stallion, Waggoner shipped the starving animal, crossing her fingers he’d weather the ride, to Celia Scarlett, a horse rescue advocate who at the time worked for Florida TRAC.

Moons-Treasure-1Under Scarlett’s care, Moon’s Treasure filled out on a healthy diet, and his deep puncture wound healed with weeks of flushing and attention, she says. “He was in really bad shape, but he rebounded pretty quickly,” she says. “It’s a nice story. I knew him as a racehorse on the track; he was absolutely stunning. For him to show up like that a year later, it’s just sad,” Scarlett says. “Down here in South Florida it’s easy for a horse to wind up in a bad situation if you’re not careful. He definitely wound up in the wrong hands.”

But just as suddenly as his life fell in tatters, he was found and lifted by right hands.

Action Alert: Tell BLM No to Sterilizing Saylor Creek Herd

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The following update is from American Wild Horse Preservation.

saylor creek horsesFor the first time ever, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to convert a wild, free-roaming mustang population into a non-reproducing herd of sterilized horses. The BLM Idaho plan for the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) would destroy the wild horses’ wild, free-roaming behaviors and is a recipe for managing this beautiful wild horse herd to extinction. If implemented, it would set a dangerous precedent for destroying healthy, sustainable wild horse populations into sterilized groups of horses that will die off. AWHPC’s formal protest of this destructive and devastating plan is pending, but we need the public to weigh in to help Keep the Saylor Creek Wild Horses Wild! Take action and sign the petition.

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700 Horses in Crosshairs of Army Training

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The following story is by Heidi Rucki of the Examiner.com.

Lately it seems that horses are often in the news, and horses have become the unwary targets of the clash of human land use versus their simple animal existence. Any time horses become magnets of such attention, they frequently do not fare well. Information coming from the U.S. Army on Aug. 12 and 13 has riveted attention on about 700 “feral” horses roaming on thousands of acres in Louisiana on lands used by the army during training exercises. The horses are increasingly considered “nuisance animals” because they may pose a kicking or biting danger or leave random piles of manure.

Fort Polk spokesperson Kim Reischling says that the intense military training of crosshairstroops has to pause until the horses are “shooed away.” They leave behind horse manure in the areas used by soldiers. The training area is about 90 miles northwest of Lafayette, LA, and around 20 miles from the Texas state line. Most of the horses are located on 48,000 acres of the 90,000 acres of forest land that are used for training purposes.

From Rescued Horse to Dressage Championships

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Kalli Graf and Soby

The following story is from the Santa Barbara Independent.

Most horses that contend at the highest level of equestrian competitions come from large ranches and carefully selective breeding. That’s not the case for Soby, the rescue horse equestrian that trainer Kaili Graf will be riding at the Western Dressage World Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this coming November.

Kaili rescued Soby back in 2010 as a baby when she was neglected and left out alone in a field. The two had an instant connection, as rider and horse developed a strong partnership in a short time that would typically take weeks for other trainers.

“As soon as I saw her, I said, ‘This is not a normal horse,’” said Graf, a trainer who has been riding horses for as long as she can remember. “Soby has a goofy personality, but she loves to work.”

Soby was one of the earliest rescue horses that Kaili ever worked with, and as such is a bit of a “poster child” for rescue horses competing in Western Dressage, having won four state titles in 2014. A new discipline, Western Dressage’s influences date back to the 1700s with the ranches of the American West and Spanish vaqueros. Western Horsemanship meets the English Classical Dressage in a style that emphasizes “lightness” and “subtle cues.”

For Kaili and Soby, the goal in competition is to execute techniques as a single unit and to make their movement as instinctive and intuitive as possible. The importance of this upcoming World Championship goes beyond personal aspirations, however, as Kaili wants to advocate for the sport and rescue horses. “I want to inspire the riders who think they could never make it,” says Graf. “There’s an existing structure that no one wants to challenge.”

If Kaili and Soby can prevail at the World Championships, it will show that rescue horses and anyone from modest means can find success with hard work. The cost of competing is not cheap, though, so the duo can use all the support they can rally.

BLM Summer 2015 Roundup

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The following update is from American Wild Horse Preservation.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Summer 2015 roundup season is underway. Newly captured wild horses and burros will be added to the nearly 50,000 currently stockpiled in holding facilities. Of note is the BLM removal numbers are significantly lower than those of previous years, which is largely the result of BLM’s inability to remove larger numbers of horses due to lack of holding space. This situation creates an opportunity, and should make it necessary, for the BLM to increase the use of humane fertility control as an alternative to removing massive numbers of wild horses and burros from the range. However, the agency continues to fight against making progress towards creating a humane and sustainable on-the-range management program. 

Update on Cowboy

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The following update is from Chilly Pepper Equine Rescue 

Hi, lots of news this month. Some of it positive and some simply Cowboy Chilli Pepperfrustrating. The positive is that we are finding homes for some of the 55 wild horses. We still need lots more homes, but we are definitely on the way.

We have been hit with lots of unexpected expenses this month, one being a repair job on our one and only rescue truck which is used for everything we do. Although the injectors were replaced 3 years ago, nearly all of them have failed to the tune of $2400. (This truck initially had a recall on them and apparently they have not improved them much.) It is frustrating when a company does not stand by their own product.

We took two trips to NV to save Cowboy. Cowboy is the preemie who was born in a group of Virginia Range horses that had been rounded up by Nevada Dept. of Ag and saved from slaughter. We are currently trying to find permanent homes for the remaining 55 horses (plus babies).

9288661_origCowboy had some life threatening issues, including a septic knee joint. Unfortunately it was an emergency type situation and that vet bill was just shy of $900. He then contracted some type of infection (similar to pneumonia) and has been on further antibiotics. He had scours and was struggling pretty badly. (When you are dealing with a preemie, it is especially dangerous as their lungs are not fully developed and they have no reserves. He was looking like quite the little riblet, with no extra meat on his bones). To date he has come through the tough times very well but is still dealing with a nasty cough. He is eating and drinking and all systems are go, with the exception of his cough and breathing.

UPDATE: Forest Service Now Looking to Work with Salt River Wild Horse Advocates

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The following post is from AWHP

Last week, the famed and beloved Salt River wild horses in the Tonto National Forest near Mesa, Arizona were in immediate threat of total eradication thanks to a U.S. Forest Service plan to begin rounding them up as early as Friday, August 7. These special horses have been present on the lands in and around the Salt River for over a century, but the Forest Service claimed that they are “stray livestock” and intended to “impound” all “unauthorized” horses in just a few short days. 

This is a precarious situation because the Salt River horses lack federal protection due to the Forest Service’s failure to designate a protected Wild Horse Territory for them after the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act was passed in 1971. At the same time, the Forest Service admits that the horses have been present in the National Forest since the 1930’s, and historic articles document their presence on those lands since the late 1800’s. The legal upshot of the Forest Service’s failure to protect the Salt River horses is that they can be rounded up and sold at auction, where kill buyers could purchase them for slaughter.   

Thanks to the tremendous outpouring of support from the local Arizona community and from advocates all around the world, the U.S. Forest Service has abandoned this controversial plan to remove dozens of horses from their Salt River home and is currently searching for alternative plans to manage them.

Read more and watch video of the struggle to save these wild horses.

Tell the BLM Advisory Board: Don’t Experiment on Our Horses!

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet on September 2-3, 2015AWHPC PHOTOS MARE AND FOAL in Oklahoma City. Click below for details on the meeting and to send a strong message to the Advisory Boardagainst the BLM’s plans to start conducting sterilization experiments on wild horses living on the range. The BLM is moving full steam ahead with these destructive plans — and we need to let them know in no uncertain terms that this is NOT acceptable. There is not a moment to waste!  Let’s start by sending a loud message to the BLM’s Advisory Board, which is supposed to represent the public in advising the BLM about wild horse and burro management issues. 

The two-day meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 2, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, September 3, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (The meeting times are local time; Oklahoma City is in the Central Time Zone.)  The meeting will be live-streamed at http://www.blm.gov/live/

Comments may also be e-mailed to the BLM (wildhorse@blm.gov & whbadvisoryboard@blm.gov); please include “Advisory Board Comment” in the subject line of the e-mail.

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Wildfires Affecting Wild Horses in the West

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The following update is from American Wild Horse Preservation.

Photo | BLMRaging wildfires in a number of western states are wreaking havoc on the land and wildlife alike. Sadly, wild horses are also being seriously affected by a number of fires. We are in touch with various BLM offices and other agencies to gather as much information as possible about how the fires are impacting wild horses and burros. In Idaho, sadly more than two dozen wild horses died when they were overcome by a fast moving blaze. Extensive fencing on public lands built to accommodate welfare ranchers, who use our public land to graze their cattle, always blocks the free movement of wild horses. However, in emergency situations like these, it tragically limits the number of escape routes available to them and other wildlife species. Please click below to read more about the fires affecting wild horses.

Warm Springs Fire, Oregon:

The 64,000 acre Warm Springs fire in Oregon has affected drastically impacted animals – including wild horses – on tribal lands. Our coalition partner, the Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition (COWHC) is actively working on emergency relief efforts, including donations of hay. If you would like to donate to the COWHC, call 541-441-8165, or visit their website or their  facebook page .

The Soda Fire, Idaho:

Twenty-seven wild horses died near Salmon Creek in the Hardtrigger herd management area, about 45 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho, when they were caught in the fast-moving Soda wildfire.

The horses were found by a team of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees and a veterinarian who were checking the condition of two herds in the area. A gate was opened near the animals, but they were overtaken before they could escape.Additionally, two horses have been euthanized because their injuries were so extensive that they could not have survived.

Three wild horse herds are affected by the Soda fire. The Sands Basin herd has about 60 horses and the Hardtrigger herd has roughly 170 animals. The third herd management area, Black Mountain, was not damaged to nearly the extent of the other two.

As of August 21, 2015, this fire is 95% contained.

The Cold Springs Fire, Nevada:

The Cold Springs Fire started at approximately 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 14.  The fire is burning approximately 50 miles East of Fallon, NV, off the Carroll Summit Highway between Fallon and Austin in juniper trees and grass. Air and ground units are actively engaged in fire suppression activities. Investigators have confirmed that lightning was the cause of the fire.

The fire has been burning mostly in inaccessible steep and heavily wooded terrain in the Desatoya Mountain Range. This fire is in the vicinity of the Destoya HMA, but the BLM Carson City District says that gates are open for horses to leave the area, and that there have been no reports of horse injuries or deaths. 

As of August 21, 2015 the fire is 90% contained.

Help Cowboy & 55 Wild Horses & Orphaned Foals

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The following post is from Chilly Pepper Equine Rescue.

We want to thank those who helped us keep the 65 wild horses alive and well. The good news is that 10 were placed, so now we are down to 55 plus the babies. We are also taking care of other orphans while we find homes for these amazing horses.

The little baby on the left is COWBOY, and his mama is LACY. Cowboy is in serious trouble and definitely a special needs little boy. His knee is not only deformed but has some tiny fractures, and we have him and his mama here at Chilly Pepper – Miracle Mustang for some specialized care. He needs huge prayers!!! (Just got this update – looks like we might have a plan for Cowboy’s legs. It will be a lil bit spendy, but will give him a chance to have a life.)

We were on a mission to get y’all pix of the horses that need saving. We managed to get pix of Rojo and Waylon’s bands, but then had to stop and round everyone up so we could get hands on Cowboy and treat him. His mama had rejected him at birth, but Jan Hall (who has been feeding them since February), managed to finally get the mare to reattach emotionally.

The rest of the horses need their forever homes. In the meantime, we are needing to raise more monies to purchase fencing so we can lease land for them until they are adopted. It will be portable fencing so we should not have to raise money again for the same thing. The property in question is beautiful, big and has lots of water. In this area, water is worth more than gold.

So we will need to transport the horses, put up the fencing after it is purchased, and then continue to find homes for them. If you are interested in adoption, there is inexpensive gentling/halter training available.

You can go to http://www.youcaring.com/let-em-run-foundation-for-55-wild-horses-orphaned-foals-415297

or you can go to:

Paypal – Palominodancer@yahoo.com

to donate for this cause. Please note if you would like your donation to go for the general cause or for a specific need.

You can also visit our website at www.chillypepper.org and donate there.

We appreciate your help as this is the hardest part. Folks will jump up quickly during the “emergency”, but then rescues are left to support these horses and that can be a 30 year commitment. We also have several other special needs horses.

If you have room for a “pasture pet”, or one of the “special needs” horses, please contact us at 530 474 5197.

Thank you and God bless!

Salt River Wild Horses Safe for Now…Thanks to Public Outcry

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The following post comes from the American Wild Horse Preservation.

After unprecedented and intense public outcry, the U.S. Forest Service has suspended its plans to round up the famous Salt River wild horses in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and U.S. Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain are among the elected officials who have added their voices to the call to protect these beloved “icons of the West.” AWHPC coalition partner, the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group and their attorney, William A. Miller of Phoenix, filed a lawsuit to stop the roundup and obtain lasting protection for these beloved horses. With the roundup on hold, both parties are now working together to develop a workable plan that will permanently protect the horses and keep them in their home in the National Forest.

Thank you to the 13,000 AWHPC supporters who called and emailed the Forest Service to protest plans to eradicate these horses, and to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which partnered with us to send a legal letter informing the Forest Service that it would be violating federal law if it proceeded with the roundup. We’ll keep you posted on the latest developments. For more information and the latest news, please click below.

Bella II Update

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The following post comes from All About Equine Rescue.

Sincere thanks to all of our family, friends, and followers for supporting AAE.  With your ongoing care, everyone here at AAE will continue to give horses a new life as best we can.

We have been a bit quiet the last couple months, but rest assured, we have been busy helping horses, planning events, and expanding our networks.  There is much more to come, but for now, thank you for caring, sharing, and making a difference, one horse at a time.

In The Meantime…. 

We have a new little gal that needs our help.

Bella II is a recent intake.  She’s only two to three years old, and such a sweet face.

What you don’t see, is she has been dealing with contracted tendons, probably since birth.   We picked her up and brought her home, and she looked like this:

Radiographs show her condition is a bit severe.

She has been trimmed a couple of times, and a therapeutic shoeing effort failed to help.

This is one of those cases where Bella’s needs are a bit beyond what we normally plan for with a new intake, but she is young and healthy with a good prognosis for a happy future with treatment.

Bella needs surgery to help relax her tendons in her front legs.  Although not common, it looks like her hind legs may need surgery, as well.  After surgery, she will need special shoes during her recovery.  With two surgeries, radiographs, at least two sets of new shoes, and treatment to date, costs will likely exceed $2,500.

We are asking for a little help with Bella’s costs.  If she does not need surgery on her hinds, any excess funds will apply toward veterinary costs toward other current cases.

Help however you can:  donate, share, or send a good thought for this cute little girl!

To date, we’ve raised over $500 towards her treatment.

Thanks to everyone that has donated thus far!!

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