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Horses Live
Jason Stough
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Nevada lawmakers last week put their foot on an important issue. They stated that they would make it easier for wild horses and burros to be removed from government care through private adoptions and sales.
Bills introduced in the House and Senate support waiting periods and penalties that lawmakers believe should safeguard the animals from abuse and slaughter.
Horse lovers oppose the bill. They feel the flaw of the bill is the way it does not fully protect all horses. The issue grew controversial this spring when 41 horses were killed at an Illinois meatpacking plant after being sold by the Bureau of Land Management.
More than half the estimated 32,000 wild mustangs and burros in the West roam on federally managed land in Nevada, where ranchers complain they damage rangeland for grazing cattle and for the horses' own health. The only solution then is to slaughter them. That is wrong, give them homes to people who want them.
The bill reluctantly reduces the price for adopting a wild horse by 75 percent. About 6,000 to 7,000 wild horses are adopted each year, according to the BLM.
Wild horses will be adopted at an amazing rate. Their lives will be spared and everyone wins even the horses.
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