Velma Johnston

Photo by Carol Abel:

Maybe one day someone can visit her gravesite and tell her the mustangs are truly safe and that she can finally rest in peace.

Is the U.S. House of Representatives smarter than a 1st Grader?

Only Time will Tell ...

........................... Below is from the TB Friend's blog posted on Monday, June 13, 2011. The blog is written most Monday's through Friday's by the owner of Thoroughbred Friends, Joe Shelton, from Woodland, CA ....

With such a busy weekend, it is difficult to focus on a single subject. But I wanted to tell you about Tias. Pronounced Tee Us. 9 years old, Tias came to us and asked if I could recommend a riding instructor close to her home.

Tias has been studying horses since the age of 5. Tias can talk the talk. She knows about tendons and navicular. Tias easily recites the anatomy of a horse. She tells me Misty has a sore back, and so do you Joe.

Huh?

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Tias then said: You should give out links to the slaughter houses. If people saw what happens to a horse, you would have more adoptions. Then you could rescue more horses.

I think people can imagine. And if they really want to watch, it is easy enough to find.

Then Tias added: On your website you should tell the world to quit breeding. I figured it out when I was 6.

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So, if a six year old can figure this out, why can't Sue Wallis, Conrad Burns, Charlie Stenholm and a host of other people who pretend to be horse lovers? Ask yourself what Wallis' and company gets from opening a horse slaughter plant and why, if they love horses so much, they have expended so much money and effort in trying to kill them by the hundreds of thousands?We spend so much time trying to dispell in our horses the notion that we are predators and want to eat them. Turns out, for some horse owners, it was all a lie. Sorry, we do want to eat you after all. We just pretended we didn't.

I wonder if the hypocrisy keeps them up at night?

Roll Call on Amendment to defund USDA inspectors

From EWA:

Here's the info on the vote - thanks to Deb from Americans Against Horse Slaughter. The format isn't the best but this was all that was available. I swiped this from Deb's website. She also sent a PDF but it's basically the same. Republicans are at the top, Dems at the bottom.

PASSED: FINAL VOTE 24-21

Ere - Not Present

Ert - YES

- NO

Note Steve Womack (AR) was a NO Vote.

Republicans:

Harold D. Rogers, KY

C.W. Bill Young, FL

Jerry Lewis, CA

Frank Wolf, VA

Jack Kingston, GA

Rodney Frelinghuysen, NJ

Tom Latham, IA

Robert B. Aderholt, AL

Jo Ann Emerson, MO

Kay Granger, TX

Michael K. Simpson, ID

John Abney Culberson, TX

Ander Crenshaw, FL

Denny Rehberg, MT

John R. Carter, TX

Rodney Alexander, LA

Ken Calvert, CA

Jo Bonner, AL

Steve LaTourette, OH

Tom Cole, OK

Jeff Flake, AZ

Mario Diaz-Balart, FL

Charles Dent, PA

Steve Austria, OH

Cynthia Lummis, WY

Tom Graves, GA

Kevin Yoder, KS

Steve Womack, AR

Alan Nunnelee, MS

DEMOCRATS:

Norm Dicks, WA

Marcy Kaptur, OH

Pete Visclosky, IN

Nita Lowey, NY

Jose Serrano, NY

Rosa DeLauro, CT

Jim Moran, VA

John Olver, MA

Ed Pastor, AZ

David Price, NC Would have been Yea

Maurice Hinchey, NY Would have been Yea

Lucille Roybal-Allard, CA

Sam Farr, CA

Jesse Jackson, IL

Chaka Fattah, PA would have been Yea

Steve Rothman, NJ

Sanford Bishop, GA

Barbara Lee, Ca

Adam Schiff, CA

Mike Honda, CA

Betty McCollum, MN

Cattle Tripping the Light Fantastic! (not)

Never mentioned in the EA's, the damage cattle do to the rangelands must be acknowledged. Here is the Sierra club's view.

Restore our Western Wildlife Heritage!
Help Remove the Adverse Impacts of Livestock Production on Our Public Lands

Grazing in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. America's arid western public lands are at risk from taxpayer-subsidized livestock production.

Livestock grazing occurs on more federal public lands than any other commercial use, affecting more than 260 million acres – an area the size of Texas and California combined! Additional impacts related to livestock grazing – including water diversions, wildlife killings, and mile after mile of fencing - further threaten the wildlife and wild character of these public lands, including habitats important to many of our most imperiled species of plants and animals.

In the United States, livestock grazing has contributed to the listing of 22 percent of federal threatened and endangered species—almost equal to logging (12 percent) and mining (11 percent) combined. No other human activity in the West is as responsible for the decline or loss of species as is livestock production. The Sierra Club has placed a high priority on protecting and restoring native wildlife and habitat to our public lands by seeking management changes that will correct livestock impacts. In some locations, this may require an end to commercial livestock production.

Kiss Them Goodbye

This day's entry is courtesy of grassrootshorse and Arla Ruggles' beautiful photographs.

Save Nevada's Wild Horses!

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Artist: Arla M. Ruggles

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Every wild horse in this collection lives in an area targeted for roundups, beginning July 1, 2011, shown in the order in which the roundups will likely take place (starting with July). Wild Herd Areas include Triple B’s, Maverick-Medicine, and Cherry Springs.

When ordering, we suggest setting the beginning month as July 2011.

Updates on the members of each band shown will be published throughout the coming year on GrassrootsHorse

100% of profit from this work is donated to GrassRootsHorse.com; a 501©3 charitable organization dedicated to the preservation of America’s wild horses. Tax-deductible donations will be used to defray expenses incurred by advocates attending the BLM roundups in Maverick-Medicine, Triple B’s and Cherry Springs wild herd areas in eastern Nevada, during the summer of 2011.

Nevada Wild Horses in 1906 - Montreal Gazette

Proving the History of Wild Horses and Burro’s in Nevada:

This is an excerpt from a 1906 article in the Montreal Gazette proving that the ranchers are full of self righteous BS and their claim that wild horses are not WILD, is nothing but a cowardly lie in order to attain their cruel agendas. It reads:

“The traveler often wonders at the large herds of horses found along the lake, seen in the desert along Walker lake below the Walker Indian Reservation. These horses are wild, not range animals gone wild, but wild horses. They are as unrestrained as the horses that once covered the planes with the buffalo and antelope, and no doubt can trace an ancestry free from the hackamore for half a dozen generations back. “

This article was written in 1906 when population in Nevada was almost nonexistent except for the few mining towns like Hawthorne which at that time consisted of 6 house. Long before the cattle ranchers settled there. The writer states that for at least 6 generations these horses have been wild and free, effectively proving their wildness for over 220 years at a very minimum and also proving that thousands of them roamed the planes with the buffalo before white men even settled the continent.

America once was great planes where the buffalo and the horses roamed in peace. There used to be over a million, now we are down to the last 20,000 if even that many; an independent unbiased count has never been done.

These are the last survivors of the BLM policies, the survivors of the poisoning and shooting by the Mustangers, the survivors of hundreds of tough winters and summer droughts. They have evolved into the toughest horse in the world with the most beautiful and amazing natural herd dynamics. They can survive a lot, but they cannot survive longer than 4 days without water.

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