Wild West Discussion - February 2010

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   len says:

   3/10/2010 at 4:39 pm

   A reading of Howard Zinn's "people's history of United States" re-enforces this idea, If all people are thinking the same, there is NO thinking. greg michno is a member of a culture that seems unable or unwilling to go beyond what mommy an daddy told him and cannot relate to any other people save those who "think" the same as he does.

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   Steve McCarty says:

   11/6/2011 at 6:13 pm

   I live in Oregon. From here they send out animal lovers to round up the mustangs. They get several hundred a season. Most are in pretty poor condition, but they do hold auctions. The animals usually sell for $150 or so.

   People who love animals buy them and put them in their back yard, thinging they will become pets, like the family mutt. Not so. Horses to be properly cared for are expensive to maintain. One owner ordered an employee to take out out back and shoot it. So the young fellow did, using his 9mm pistol. After the horse came to, it wandered off and was discovered starving and blind in one eye. The found the owner and tried the shooter. Animal cruelty. He was sentence to five years in prison, as I recall.

   Other people just turn the horses out, and being alone, they starve. Some just keep them in the pen and starve them to death.

   Morale of the story? They were probably better off on the open range. They don't really compete for forage. You seen them in the desert where there are no cattle. There are also donkey's out there. Some of the horses are Kiger Mustangs which are a unique breed of wild Oregon horses. They IMO should be left out there, as they have been for 500 years. They are some of the purest Spanish stock brought over here by the Conquistadores extant.

   Left on their own hook the wild horses survive for a few years and starve. Brought in they live for two or three years and then starve. What's the diff?

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