No Shelter from Sweltering Temps for BLM Horses & Burros in Holding

[teaser]Via American Wild Horse Preservation.[/teaser]

This summer’s sweltering temperatures are especially difficult for captured wild horses and burros held in BLM short-term holding facilities in the West. Although the agency requires that adopters of wild horses and burros provide the animals with shelters, it provides no shelters to the thousands of horses stockpiled in its own holding pens. In response to public controversy about horses standing in unrelenting heat and blazing sun at the BLM’s Palomino Valley Adoption Center near Reno, the agency installed sprinklers in some of the pens, but still stubbornly refuses to provide shade to the mustangs and burros incarcerated there. Now national organizations and national media are weighing in on these inhumane conditions. Please click here to read more about the efforts to force BLM to give captured wild horses and burros shelter from the elements.