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Gary King Calls on the Governor to Have State Do the Right Thing on Horse Slaughter
Protect Mustangs.org
January 8, 2014
(Albuquerque, NM) – Candidate for Governor Gary King today called on Governor Martinez to take immediate steps to block the proposed horse slaughterhouse in Roswell by directing her Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to take into serious consideration the opinion of the state environmental hearing officer who yesterday recommended that the operational permits to the Valley Meat company be denied.
“By waiting to block the permits, Governor Martinez has not only endangered these majestic horses, she is wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars. She could end this highly controversial project now by instructing her cabinet Secretary in charge of granting or denying a permit to the Valley Meat company to consider the strong evidence against this project,” said King.
“Horse slaughter is wrong. Human consumption of horse meat that may contain drugs could be dangerous. Discharging thousands of gallons of waste every day from an industrial horse slaughter operation would harm the environment,” said King. “Governor Martinez could have taken action long ago to address this controversy. This isn’t about politics – it’s about the humane treatment of horses and good stewardship. The only question is whether she will finally make the right decision. ”
“I am grateful to the many thousands of people from within New Mexico and around the country who have signed my petition, asking Gov. Martinez to stop the horse slaughterhouse. While the state court will hopefully make the right decision, this has gone on too long,” King added.
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Signatures needed to help America’s wild horses
We are going to a meeting at Senator Dianne Feinstein‘s office soon and need your help to get more signatures on 3 important petitions:
1.) The DEFUND the ROUNDUPS PETITION http://www.change.org/petitions/defund-and-stop-the-wild-horse-burro-roundups
2.) SAVE OUR NATIVE WILD HORSES PETITION http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-our-native-wild
3.) PETITION for EMERGENCY SHELTER & SHADE http://www.change.org/petitions/bring-emergency-shelter-and-shade-to-captive-wild-horses-and-burros
Please help by sharing and emailing the two petitions to your friends and family. Thank you so much for helping America’s wild horses!
( Senator Feinstein photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Help us help the wild horses!
We need your help to continue the fight for mustang freedom and to care for the wild horses we have saved from probable slaughter.
Please donate to Contact@ProtectMustangs.org via www.PayPal.com
Mail in your donations to:
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, Ca. 94705
We are in the process of filing for our 501c3 and are currently a California nonprofit.
Last month our Executive Director, Anne Novak, donated more than 240 hours of her time to Protect Mustangs. Our other team members donated their time too.
Our bill to feed the rescued wild horses is huge. For example a 100 pound bale of hay is $21.00 in the San Francisco Bay Area. They eat a lot of bales every month. Please help us with our expenses to help the wild horses. Thank you!
www.ProtectMustangs.org Information: 415-531-8454
Happy New Year! Become a member of Protect Mustangs for 2014
Photo Copyright Anne Novak
This is the year of the horse! Make a difference in 2014. America’s iconic wild horses need your help!
Become a 2014 member of Protect Mustangs for $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $250, $500, $750 or $1000. Join us as we continue our rescue, research, outreach and education. We are advocating for wild horses to live unharmed in freedom and to protect the mustangs in captivity.
Besides becoming a member, we welcome your continued support earmarked for our Save the Mustangs Fund, Field Work Fund, Legal Fund, or the Outreach Fund.
You may donate via PayPal to Contact@ProtectMustangs.org. Visit our homepage for the donate button or mail your check to:
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, Ca. 94705
Please include your name, email and address so we may send you a receipt. We are a nonprofit organization registered in California who believes in accountability and transparency. We are currently filing for our 501c3 nonprofit status which makes your 2014 donations tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes to you for 2014!
Many blessings,
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Fundraising dollars go to care for wild horses in the outreach program
Thanks to donations for the Outreach Mustangs, Tibet was able to get his feet trimmed.
Good foot care is essential to keep a horse healthy and for youngsters to grow properly. In the wild, mustangs wear their feet down but once they are living in captivity quality foot care is one of the best things you can do for them. Sadly the Bureau of Land Management neglects captive wild horses feet in the pens. We are grateful to be able to give excellent corrective foot care to the wild horses in our Outreach Program.
Every trim is always another learning experience. Today Tibet (Divide Basin, Wyoming) was trimmed for the first time in the big barn at the boarding facility with other horses around in stalls, horses walking in and out and being saddled up and hosed off. His back was facing a lot of the activity so he learned to be OK with that.
Terry Johnson, one of our the farriers, is so patient with young horses and has no prejudice against wild horses. Sadly some farriers think wild horses will be difficult and refuse to work with them. Wild horses are just like green horses once they are gentled.
Tibet is only 2. We saved him a year ago from facing his 3rd Strike and possibly being sold to a kill buyer for $10 in a truckload of wild horses ending up at slaughter.
One hoof trimmed and 3 more to go.
Then he got squirmy so I hand fed him some hay. A lot dropped on the floor. We had to keep his head up so the farrier could work on him without Tibet moving about.
Tibet heard the tractor going to get the hay for dinner and he became more squirmy.
The farrier suggested we give him some alfalfa pellets and boy was Tibet a happy camper! So that’s how we finished the job.
Blondie got a trim also thanks to her sponsor
Blondie was distracted by so much activity in the big barn but the grain worked wonders for her also. Such a great learning experience for Blondie too!
Val and Sol need their feet trimmed next please donate to help the Outreach Mustangs
Contact us if you would like to sponsor Val, Sol or Tibet to be a very special part of their lives and an essential force in our Outreach Program. These Ambassadors are educating many people about the plight of America’s wild horses.
You may also make a one time or monthly donation for the Outreach Mustang Fund that pays for hay, board and trims. We are 100% volunteer non-profit organization with all the money going directly to the wild horses. We donate our time to care, train and engage in outreach with the wild horses in our program.
Right now on Facebook we have a fundraiser for the Fund. You can donate $150 and receive a one of a kind handmade turquoise bracelet as a thank you.
Here is a slide show of Blondie & Tibet during their first turnout after we gentled them.
Help needed for captive wild horses and burros with no shelter
Screenshot for educational purposes
Dear Friends,
It’s 5ºF right now at the largest wild horse processing and adoption facility in Palomino Valley, Nevada.
Close to 2,000 captive wild horses nave no shelter from the harsh winter elements at the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Palomino Valley Center alone.
The BLM’s Rock Springs, Wyoming facility is also housing more than 600 wild horses with no shelter in below zero temperatures. Traumatized wild horses become at risk of upper respiratory infections post-roundup–especially without access to shelter.
In the wild they can migrate to natural sheltered zones. Trapped in pens under the “care” of the BLM they are being cruelly held without shelter–a basic necessity in animal husbandry.
It’s time to take action. If you live in the United States please contact your congressional representative and your senators with a link to this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/bring-emergency-shelter-and-shade-to-captive-wild-horses-and-burros Ask them to intervene and take immediate action to end the cruelty in captivity.
Please share the petition with your friends, family and network via email, Facebook and other social media asking them to sign and share so we can all help the wild horses and burros.
If you live outside the United States please email your friends and family. Ask them to sign and share this petition via email and on social media. It’s a huge help and we thank you!
Together we can end the suffering in captivity while we work to return them to the wild where native wild horses belong.
Thank you for taking action.
In gratitude,
Anne Novak
Executive Director of Protect Mustangs™
Greetings from Blondie & Tibet
Blondie (rt) & Tibet (lft) were yearlings facing their 3rd Strike with no adopters. We kept our pledge to find homes for them and others. Many found homes but Blondie & Tibet did not. We welcomed them into our Outreach Program and gentled them last winter. We are grateful to Blondie’s anonymous sponsor and hope someone will come forward to be a special part of Tibet’s life by becoming his sponsor. www.ProtectMustangs.org
We need a trailer for wild horses ~ Please help!
Loading Blondie & Tibet the first time with halters and lead ropes.
It takes a village! Here is the link for the fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/WildHorseTrailer
Dear Friends of Wild Horses,
We urgently need a used 3 horse gooseneck trailer for the 5 wild horses in our Outreach Program, to help other wild horses go to their forever homes and in case of emergency. Visit our fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/WildHorseTrailer to help.
In September, it took 30 hours to get Sol, a California wild horse, to the vet hospital after our field vet said, “Take him to the hospital. I can’t fix this in the field.” If Sol had a life threatening condition he probably would have died in 30 hours.
We called everyone to get transportation. Our friends and volunteers with trailers were away at shows or working. The local pro haulers were at horse shows and the big shippers did not have the right set up to access the location nor did they have the holding capacity for a wild horse who could not tie safely.
A used 3 horse trailer for wild horses will save us money because hauling is expensive. We need a 3 horse trailer so they can turn around and unload safely. A trailer for Protect Mustangs will ensure the wild horses are never abused and can get emergency medical care at the hospital if needed.
In September a volunteer was paid $550 (mileage, bridge toll, food) to come from the Foothills to the Bay Area to take Sol for emergency care up to UC Davis and then bring him to a barn in the Bay Area and then return to the Foothils. Professional haulers are very expensive too. If we had our own trailer it would have cost us less than $80 (gas & toll) to take Sol to UC Davis and back and we could have taken him in immediately–not after 30 hours.
Now 3-year-old Val (Twin Peaks wild horse) needs to go up to the hospital and come back (2 RTs for the hauler) because he needs medical help for the ringbone–probably from the roundup. We need to haul him but we don’t have a trailer. . .
When we get the used 3 horse trailer with removable dividers we will join the Fleet of Angels to help transport wild horses. Please share widely so we can make this happen!
We want to help others bring down their adopted wild horses from Litchfield, PVC and the Reno area. We know how hard it is to find haulers for wild horses. They are either, very expensive, won’t haul “wild horses”, have the wrong type of trailer for a wild horse, or use “harsh methods” to move the horses like twitches and stud chains.
Some haulers use twitches and stud chains. We don’t. We take our time to load and unload.
After all the cruel roundups and abuse wild horses have suffered, they deserve to be treated with compassion and kindness.
As you see in the photo with Blondie & Tibet, we go on “horse time” when loading wild horses. We know every time we work with them it’s a training opportunity. Hauling can be easy on the horses if they aren’t scared or stressed.
We need your help.
Please donate what you can http://www.gofundme.com/WildHorseTrailer and share this call for support. Thank you so much!
Many blessings,
Anne Novak
Volunteer Executive Director for Protect Mustangs
Wild Horses in Wyoming Need Help
Tibet earned 2 Strikes from not getting picked at adoptions. He was facing his 3rd and probable slaughter as a long yearling when we saved him and brought him to California.
Follow Tibet (Divide Basin herd) to learn about how you can help.
“LIKE” our new Facebook cause page to get the info and the latest news: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-Horses-In-Wyoming-Need-Help/587758424612113
Thank you for helping Wyoming’s wild horses!