Yeah whenever blm does a roundup they shuffle the animals off to privately run kill pens that warehouse them in substandard conditions and market them to horse girls on social media.
It’s illegal to kill horses for meat in America so you gotta put em on a train to Canada where they mostly become dogfood.
But Americans don’t want them to be killed directly and instead ship the carcasses, so they hold the horses so someone can “adopt” them.
I don’t know why I used quotes there, it’s animal adoption just like a dog or cat except for the wild differences.
While the animals are held in government subsidized private kill pens they are subject to conditions that pretty much every horse owner hates.
Of course the solution is much bigger roundups with direct kills but the horse people hate that idea.
They gotta cull these things. Horses breed like crazy, it would be easier if the US didn’t treat them like wild pets and require the weird plausible deniability.
Almost nobody wants a wild horse, they’re just gonna cull 99.9% anyway. And if you don’t cull them they become diseased pests like deer.
I think they have an average 40% adoption rate?
That flattens individuals and second string kill pens into the same group though.
No one with any political power wants actual culls though and the feral mustang herd plays an important role in keeping the blm grazelands in shape for ranchers to run cows on em.
So even if you can climb the ideology mountain there’s real material forces at work preserving the feral mustang herd.
Wow that number seems crazy high, but i looked it up again and numbers are pretty fucking high. In 2019 the fed started giving away 1,000 split in two payments if you adopt one and that alone doubled the rates.
What are the more humane ways to deal with these animals? They’re not native, they’ve been causing ecological problems, and they’ve been endangering other plants and animals.
Release wolves.
Directly shoot them from the heli and let the bodies return to nature. Minimizes the stress compared to day long transports in captivity.
Treat them like we treat we treat wild hogs. Wild horses are feral pets to the US, rather than pests.
Horse Gallipoli. Gallopoli.
The Orange Pedo is now killing horses.
Go be fair, these feral horses are not native and are messing up ecosystems, which is leading to the deaths of other species.
