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A horse wrangler uses a helicopter to herd wild horses into a corral during a gather near Tonopah, Nev. Thursday, September 16, 2010. The Bureau of Land Management gathered 54 horses outside of a Herd Management Area Thursday as part of their efforts to reduce the wild horse and burro population in and around the herd management areas.
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 | 2:14 p.m.
CARSON CITY — More than $20,000 has been raised to protect 41 wild horses being put on the auction block by the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
Wild horse advocates say the mustangs are purchased, sent to Canada and Mexico for slaughter and the meat shipped around the world.
The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign said Wednesday it received the donations to buy the mustangs and care for them until they are adopted.
Deniz Bolbol, communications director for the preservation campaign based in San Francisco, said there were thousands of donations from the U.S., South Africa, Europe and Canada.
The horses were rounded up from state lands in the Reno-Carson City area, where they sometimes wandered onto highways, causing accidents, officials said.
Bolbol said a check was forwarded to the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund in Reno to bid on the animals.
The Hidden Valley group staged a protest last week asking Gov. Brian Sandoval to stop the auction in Fallon. They presented 1,800 letters urging the sale to be cancelled.
The governor declined to take any action.
Since then, Bolbol said, more than 12,000 faxes and letters have been sent to the governor protesting the sale.
“This is an opportunity for the governor to implement humane solutions,” said Bolbol, who wants the horses returned to their natural range.
I hope it is enough to save them. I wish the Governor would listen to the residents and also people from other states who are threatening to boycott Nevada because of wild horse policies. Hundreds of thousands of people asked the BLM to stop putting wild horses in danger of slaughter but the State of Nevada continues to do so.
What do you drooling horse lovers think about what happens to the thousands of quarter horses that run at Los Alamitos in So Cal? Do you think that when they slow down by the age of four, that they end up on a nice farm, being fed and having vet treatment as needed? No, they end up in Mexico being chopped up for deluxe dinners in France. Face the facts, fools.
Dapperdoog ~ Your comment is totally irrelevant. We DO know what's happening to race horses, performance horses as well as wild horses, stolen horses and any other unfortunate horse that happens to fall into the slaughter pipeline.
They all get shipped to Mexico and Canada and are brutally butchered for sale overseas. Now, tell me something I DON'T know. I've been fighting this illegal, cruel and unethical "business" for over 30 years when I lived within 40 miles of the two slaughter plants in Texas. Slaughter is slaughter, no matter where the horses come from.
WHO is a fool?