These mustangs are in the capture pens at the Calico roundup. As you can see they are not starving and deserve to roam freely in the American West.
“Rounding up healthy wild horses is blatant fiscal irresponsibility during this economic crisis,” states Anne Novak, executive director of Protect Mustangs. “The overpopulation myth was created by BLM to justify spending millions of tax dollars.”
Sweetheart One Sock wants to be your filly. (Photo © Anne Novak, all rights reserved.)
This curious little filly (freezemark: 11614789) was rounded up at Triple B when she was 3 months old. She’s now about 11 months old and wants to find her forever home and family so she is never separated again from those she loves.
She is at Palomino Valley Center, about 25 minutes outside of Reno. Their number is 775-475-2222 and they open at 7:30 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. PST Monday – Friday, Saturday open from 8 a.m. to noon and closed on Sunday.
We suggest filling out BLM’s adoption paperwork and faxing it to PVC. Approval can be done in advance so that way when you find your dream horse and are already approved then you can adopt him or her quickly.
Feel free to contact us with any questions since we have experience with adoptions. We can also refer you to a couple of trainers to gentle your horse.
Adopt a mustang and save them from an unknown fate.
As of February 2, 2012 she is still available for adoption. Spread the word on Facebook and Twitter so Sweetheart can find a home.
Thank you.
UPDATE: As of December 2012 the BLM reports she is now being held close by at the closed-to-the-public Indian Lakes facility.
With slow, gentle training and love, an adopted wild horse can easily get his feet trimmed. This horse is part of the Discover Mustangs project. If you are considering adopting a wild horse and have any questions feel free to contact us.
Captured wild horses Nevada Jan 2012 (Photo © Anne Novak, all rights reserved.)
In the news on 1/15/12 Reno Gazette-Journal Sunday Edition BLM not gelding stallions now in wild horse roundup, but doesn’t rule it out http://on.rgj.com/wydWBC
Anne Novak, executive director of the California-based Protect Mustangs, said she and other wild horse advocates oppose castrating stallions as a method of birth control. She said the use of birth control drugs “is definitely something to look at,” but said the BLM’s wild horse policy is fatally flawed because the agency has no accurate count of wild horses on the range.
“Before we talk about birth control, we need to know how many wild horses are out there,” Novak said. “We need an accurate individual head count.”
She said the BLM’s estimates are inflated and result in taking so many wild horses off the range that genetically viable herds will vanish. The disagreement between the BLM and horse advocates, she said, is whether the animals are overpopulating the range or facing extinction because of the agency’s frequent roundups.
Frank Mullen did a story on this wild horse death last week in the Reno Gazette-Journal. Here’s the follow-up by Mark Robison. Warning: The photos are horrific. How would the kids, allegedly responsible for this, feel if they saw the photos?
The story and photos: http://on.rgj.com/wirJHl
Reno's wild horses (Photo © Anne Novak, all rights reserved.)
We drove around the outskirts of town looking for wild horses with photographer Cynthia Smalley. After locating a single mare, stud and foal band we continued our suburban boarder safari. Finally we found them in a small meadow near a stream. We parked at the end of a housing development, crossed a stream and found very friendly free roaming wild horses.
When we arrived, people were feeding the mustangs apples. This must be why they came right up to us. We never feed wild horses but we do enjoy taking their photos and connecting with them when they are used to people.
Photographer Cat Kindsfather joined us later in the field to share the beauty of the light and the wild horses.
Thumbs up to Reno for an awesome nature experience!
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the legal right–under the 2004 Burns Amendment passed by Congress–to dispose of America’s legendary wild horses through “unlimited sales”. People buying truckloads of wild horses generally sell them to slaughter. In August 2011 one such truckload was busted on it’s way to slaughter.
BLM claims it does not sell wild horses to slaughter directly at this time. . . In effect, the middle man buys the truckloads of wild horses and sells them to the slaughterhouse.
It’s time for more eyes on roundups and more eyes on wild horses in holding.
The public wants to re-protect America’s wild horses especially with horse slaughter plants scheduled to reopen in the U.S.A.
Ask Congress to STOP the roundup$ now.
OBAMA poster © Lise Stampfli 2009
Thank you Lise Stampfli for creating the popular poster for the Stop the Roundups! launch of nationwide and international protests, conceived of and organized by Anne Novak, in San Francisco, December 2009, outside of Senator Feinstein’s office.
Wild horse supporters may use this poster at peaceful protests.
Young wild horses are getting injured or killed after being rounded up. Stop the Roundup$.
Share the video, write letters to your senators and representatives to ask for what you want and make a donation so we can save some Calico Complex wild horses.
Let’s end this tragedy and have a Happy 2012!