[VivaLasVegas]

The BLM will offer 57 Pryor Mountain wild horses for adoption on Saturday, September 26. The adoption will be held at the Britton Springs corrals north of Lovell, Wyo. The facility will also be open on all day Friday, Sept. 25, for horse viewing and registration.
The adoption includes 24 males and 33 females, including three mare-foal pairs. The horses range in age from 0-22 years.
The gates will open both days at 8 a.m. The oral competitive bid adoption will begin at noon on Sept. 26. The minimum bid for each animal is $125. The starting bid for pairs is $250. Successful bidders will be able to load their horse(s) as soon as the adoption concludes.

Ken McNabb will offer training clinics at 1 and 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, and again at 9 a.m. on Saturday. McNabb is a professional horse trainer, instructor, and clinician from Clark, Wyo., and also hosts a show on RFD television.
For more information on how to adopt or to receive an application, contact Nancy Bjelland, BLM adoption coordinator, at (406) 896-5222.
Sept. 26 has been designated as National Wild Horse Adoption Day by wild horse advocacy groups and the Humane Society of the United States, and the BLM is participating in the effort. The groups’ goal is to have 1,000 wild horses adopted on that day.
For information on qualifications for adopters, visit http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro.html. More information on National Wild Horse Adoption Day can be found at http://www.nationalwildhorseadoptionday.org/.

The BLM manages more land - 256 million acres - than any other Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The Bureau, with a budget of about $1 billion, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.

-BLM-

Link: http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/new..._Adoption.html

[seaglimmerfarms]

the 21 year old is Grumpy Grulla the second oldest horse is the 19 year old band stallion Conquestador. By law they will be offered for SALE because they are over a certain age and honestly had no right being rounded up and held. Taking a 14+ year old horse from the wild and offering them for adoption is ridiculous and cruel. Shame on the BLM for this one. I honestly prayed they'd do better by these animals then this.

[VivaLasVegas]

SeaGlimmer - The older horses will be adopted, not sold. The BLM is making an exception for this herd on National Wild Horse Adoption Day because of the offers people have made to adopt them. As for removing older horses, why not? Hmm... food, water, healthcare, no predators... Seems like an awful life huh? Many mustangs adjust to domestic life quite well. But lets be honest, the older horses will probably be adopted by some sanctuary and be allowed to continue living their life in a semi feral state.

[seaglimmerfarms]

Ask yourself this:

After two decades of living free and wild and being able to make your own decisions and now being in the winter of your life, would you rather die confined or die free? Health care be *edited*. They survived two decades without it all on their own and Conquistador was still maintaining a band of mares at 19 years of age proving he's strong enough to be out there. Grumpy Grulla has not shown signs of slowing up either and was a band matriarch. I'd much rather see these horses die the same way they came into this world; free. Neither horse, despite their age, was in poor condition. I think it just goes to show that they deserve their freedom and not be crammed into a trailer and hauled away from everything they've ever known for their entire lives. That's cruel.

[VivaLasVegas]

Horses are not concerned with the past so much as they are with the now. What they are concerned with is having food, water, and all other means of survival. Do I wish horses could remain feral? Yes and no. While I like the notion of free roaming horses across the west, they need to be managed. I also think the adoption program is a great idea, these horses make wonderful mounts, and I would be lost without my partner in crime (he has taught me more about myself and horses than any domestic ever could. I know he enjoys his domestic life, he had his chance when he got loose from me, he never left. He is always happy to see me and comes racing across the pasture for love and scratches every time he sees me. But you know, he hates being captured). Please understand the BLM did not round these horses up to be cruel. They gathered Conquistador and his band because they were residing outside the PMWRH. They hd tried to get them back into the designated area, but they kept leaving. They were NOT on their given land.

[Stormyheart6160]

Originally Posted by VivaLasVegas

Horses are not concerned with the past so much as they are with the now. What they are concerned with is having food, water, and all other means of survival. Do I wish horses could remain feral? Yes and no. While I like the notion of free roaming horses across the west, they need to be managed. I also think the adoption program is a great idea, these horses make wonderful mounts, and I would be lost without my partner in crime (he has taught me more about myself and horses than any domestic ever could. I know he enjoys his domestic life, he had his chance when he got loose from me, he never left. He is always happy to see me and comes racing across the pasture for love and scratches every time he sees me. But you know, he hates being captured). Please understand the BLM did not round these horses up to be cruel. They gathered Conquistador and his band because they were residing outside the PMWRH. They hd tried to get them back into the designated area, but they kept leaving. They were NOT on their given land.

What's really sad is.....if those ranchers are allowed to fence off the water supply to the horses, for their cattle.....then why can't those same ranchers put up fences to keep the horses where they are suppose to be? Afterall....they ARE profiting off those leases they have by getting grants and loans from them. Some of that money could and should go towards keeping those horses free.

Conquistador more enlikely won't get adopted. WHO in their right mind would want a 19 year old, in tack, wild horse????? He's been free, wild, and unhandled for all those years. Do you really, truely, honestly believe that someone can tame him now???? His chances at dying from old age are just about nil.....he will be one that ends up at the slaughter house.

To pretend to the public that the BLM won't and doesn't sell horses to kill buyers is crazy. NOBODY is going to bid on this stallion!!!!

[Stormyheart6160]

Originally Posted by VivaLasVegas

SeaGlimmer - The older horses will be adopted, not sold. The BLM is making an exception for this herd on National Wild Horse Adoption Day because of the offers people have made to adopt them. As for removing older horses, why not? Hmm... food, water, healthcare, no predators... Seems like an awful life huh? Many mustangs adjust to domestic life quite well. But lets be honest, the older horses will probably be adopted by some sanctuary and be allowed to continue living their life in a semi feral state.

Oh....DO TELL which sanctuaries will be allowed into the bidding process.

[VivaLasVegas]

Originally Posted by Stormyheart6160

What's really sad is.....if those ranchers are allowed to fence off the water supply to the horses, for their cattle.....then why can't those same ranchers put up fences to keep the horses where they are suppose to be? Afterall....they ARE profiting off those leases they have by getting grants and loans from them. Some of that money could and should go towards keeping those horses free.
Ranchers have nothing to do with the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, they do NOT use the same land. The land the horses were getting into was National Forrest Services land. Ranchers have NOTHING to do with this.

Conquistador more enlikely won't get adopted. WHO in their right mind would want a 19 year old, in tack, wild horse????? He's been free, wild, and unhandled for all those years. Do you really, truely, honestly believe that someone can tame him now???? His chances at dying from old age are just about nil.....he will be one that ends up at the slaughter house.
Conquistador could very well be adopted by a Pryor Mustang breeder and used as a sire. He is a proven stallion who has thrown awesome babies. Not to mention captive bred babies would go for a nice sum. He will NOT end up in a slaughter house. Do you really think the Cloud Foundation would allow for that to happen? Didn't you say they were planning on getting him a home anyway?
To pretend to the public that the BLM won't and doesn't sell horses to kill buyers is crazy. NOBODY is going to bid on this stallion!!!!

They DO NOT SELL HORSES FOR SLAUGHTER. People who buy sale authority horses have to make a verbal agreement that they will not sell the horse to a kill buyer, but in reality, once you own a horse it is yours to do what you please with it. People bring horses to slaughter all the time, what makes a wild untouchable horse any more deserving of life than the pony who gave everything they had for their rider only to get thrown away?
Someone will take him, I can almost gaurantee it.

[VivaLasVegas]

Originally Posted by Stormyheart6160

Oh....DO TELL which sanctuaries will be allowed into the bidding process.

As long as your fences are 6ft and theres a shelter, any one can adopt him. I know of PLENTY of people who take in BLM mustangs and do nothing more with them than let them live their lives on huge pastures, with little human contact.

[seaglimmerfarms]

uh last I checked you had to have a small pen with shelter. Most wild horses CAN jump over 6' to get out of trouble. It's been seen and been done before even by smaller Brumbies in Australia that jump retention walls and wind up on highways. A six foot fence to them, provided they can get a run at it, is nothing. Wild horses DO NOT WANT TO BE HELD and will go to extreme means to fight it as seen by tapes of BLM round up horses flipping over backwards out of trailers and being trampled to death. There's also a video that was removed from YouTube for being too graphic in which several horses wind up breaking their legs in a too small pen rearing and being caught up while other horses fall. It's disgusting and it's unnecessary.

I understand you adopted a wild horse and you think the BLM is wonderful because you love your horse and will do everything you can to defend them, but their actions surrounding the round up in the Pryors and otherwise just proves how disgusting their whole operation is. Conquistador deserves to die the same way he came into this world two decades ago; free. The same goes with Grumpy Grulla. Not with Troy Cattoor using cattle prods to move them through chutes they don't want to go through. Not gelded and in someone's back yard paddock bullcrap. They deserve to be free. Conquistador is not someone's pet to continue breeding unwanted horses. He's a wild stallion who's genetics are needed to ensure the survival of a herd which will soon be extinct if the BLM has it's way. It's on the record that they turned away several Humane Observers now, they wouldn't let them near the pens for a couple days. You tell me what they're trying to hide!

A week later, horses are still CRIPPLED on the range. Have you ever seen the devastating effects stone bruises that abscess cause? Without a doubt there's horses being taken down by predators out there that would never have been touched if it wasn't for the BLM and their poorly planned round up. This could have been done in winter when the horses were much lower and the foals much older.