13 Wild Horses Dead After Being Chased By Helicopters In Wyoming Roundup

[red dog 1]

Lady Freethinker.org
July 18, 2024

Thirteen wild horses are dead -- including two innocent foals, who appeared to have died due to stress -- following the latest Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wild horse roundup at the North Lander Complex in Wyoming.
Lady Freethinker (LFT) sent an observer to document the first three days of the roundup.

Before the helicopters descended on the herd, LFT's observer saw wild horse families peacefully relaxing and playing together.
Foals nipped at each other's ears and rolled around in the grass together.
The peace was destroyed as two helicopters came thundering in and horses fled in fear for their lives.

The victims of this brutality include 7 horses who died from injuries directly caused by the roundup.
In the first fifteen days of the roundup, BLM daily gather reports show that a 4-year-old mare broke her neck while being forced into a trailer, another mare died from a brain aneurysm, three horses died from "capture myopathy" -- or from stress of being captured -- while struggling in a holding corral, and two young horses died after breaking their necks in a holding corral.

More:
https://ladyfreethinker.org/13-wild-horses-dead-after-being-chased-by-helicopters-in-wyoming-roundup/

[hlthe2b]

1. This is absolutely crushing to me.

Add it to the long list of awful things over which I have close to no "say" or control.

May those horses run safely free in a kinder realm. :cry"

[montanacowboy]

2. Sickening

Humans are very good at one thing - killing, killing animal life, plant life, destroying wetlands and forests, mining and oil drilling, and on and on and on. We are even very efficient at killing ourselves by one way or another. Whoever is in charge of this universe if there is even a greater force you sure as hell made a big fucking mistake putting us in charge.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

3. Is there anything in this world that humans won't destroy for money or fun?

[SWBTATTReg]

4. A shame, but the wild horses were probably let go/or set free when farmers/ranchers/others couldn't afford the

upkeep on the animals. A true tragedy indeed.

I wondered if the same thing (stress deaths etc.) happens too, with the Buffalo roundups that happen too? Probably.

[red dog 1]

5. Not true, actually.

In fact, wealthy ranchers want to be able to let their cattle & sheep graze on public land for free, so they support these wild horse roundups.
Also, they support and push for "killing contests" to reduce the wolf and coyote populations on federal lands, so their livestock can graze on public land (for free) without fear of wolves & coyotes killing them.

As far as the buffalo roundups, you're probably right.
Many of them too, probably, die from stress, broken necks and other traumatic injuries sustained during the roundups.

[AloeVera]

6. I wish I hadn't seen this. So inhumane.

There is a petition at the site.

Wild horse experts from several advocacy groups say a more effective – and less deadly – approach would involve fertility control via humane darting that would allow wild horses to remain on the range, while also contributing to the thriving ecological balance the BLM is required to maintain.

That alternative also would save U.S. taxpayers the millions of dollars

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Captured wild horses also sometimes meet grisly ends, with the BLM’s Adoption Incentive Program exposed by the New York Times as knowingly handing over the protected animals to individuals with a history of selling horses to slaughterhouses.

Sign our petition urging the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management to end deadly helicopter gathers in favor of safer, more cost-effective approaches involving humane fertility control that would allow wild horses to remain free on the range, and so help end unnecessary, grisly deaths from injuries to intentional slaughter.

[SamKnause]

7. Evil fuckers.

I love horses.

I have owned 2 and rode many others.

They are beautiful special animals.

There is nothing as soft as a horse's nose.

They have beautiful soulful eyes.

Being around them can brighten your mood.

[FakeNoose]

8. I'm in favor of rounding up the wealthy farmers and landowners

... and euthanizing them if they don't get their private livestock off the government lands.

The wild horses aren't causing this trouble, it's the landowners.