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- I love horses! I'm very interested in wild horses.
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I am so glad we've met. I have wanted to 'not think about this' but turning a blind eye is not going to help the next horse on the death wagon. I will spread your weblink to those I know and can reach.
This is Fred who met a tragic ending in CanadaI hope that you will come out to Boulder City and see the sheep. And be sure to bring your camera. My husband worked as a park ranger two summers ago and knows all the great places to go around the area. We would love to show you around.
B.
OK, this is scarey. I live right up the hill from the Hacienda. We had Easter dinner there last Sunday. You drove right past our house to get to the hotel. We're on the hill as you go down towards the lake. We are on an outcroping of the mountain, with 32 steps to the entry into our house, which is built into the rocks. We just love it here. Right now, we have desert flowers in bloom everywhere.
If you are trying to find wild horses by driving around, you probably won't see them. They are in small herds up in the mountains, away from the roads. I have not seen one without knowing where specifically to go in all my 28 years here in southern Nevada. The best time to come here is in October. It's really pretty in the Spring and there are foals but it's also very windy.
My daughter competes in dressage. She's in her early 40's (I'm 62) and never married, and her life is wrapped around this sport. A few years ago, when she was just starting out, she fell off her horse and suffered a fractured pelvis. She was in terrible pain for months and it was then that I decided never to get back up on a horse, no matter how tempted.
I am totally against horse slaughter. I have no problem with humane euthanasia. Just by definition, slaughter is "carnage, butchering, massacre." If you have ever watched a video tape of what happens in a slaughterhouse, you would be sick to your stomach. Horses are very different from cattle and they react differently. I would no more accept horse slaughter than I would accept dog or cat slaughter. These animals are pets and should be treated better by their humans. They were not raised to be butchered and eaten. OK, off my bandwagon.
BTW, the owner of the Hacienda is the Ensign family. John Ensign is our US Senator, a vet, and sponsor of the Prevention of Horse Cruelty Act of 2009. I have been told that there will be another wild horse summit this year, possibly in So. Dakota. That would be just wonderful as there are three herds of wild horses on a reservation there that were relocated in a deal with the BLM when their herds were zeroed out. Right now I'm working on adding some information on horse abuse and neglect for my web site. Seems like the updating just never ends. Your horse Cash looks so nice and healthy and happy. I work with some of the horse rescues and look at emaciated horses every day.
Barbara P.
Barbara