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March for Mustangs Invitation
Please come to Washington DC to attend the “March for Mustangs” on Thurs., March 25th, 2010.
We will gather and hold a press conference in Lafayette Park on the north side of the White House where we will be making a stand for the preservation and protection of America’s Wild Horses and Burros. Then we will all march to the Bureau of Land Management Office as we call for the freedom and protection of all that is wild.
Please RSVP to: The Cloud Foundation, info@thecloudfoundation.org, 719-633-3842.
Details:
When: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:00-3:00pm, Press conference and speakers at 1:30pm (Filmmaker/Advocate Ginger Kathrens, Author RT Fitch and many more – including special guests to be announced)
Where: Lafayette Park (north side of Whitehouse, on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW). At 3:00pm protesters will march with signs to the BLM office at 1849 ‘C’ Street.
Plus Mustangs on the Hill II: On Friday morning, we’ll brief advocates regarding their meetings with their Senators and Representatives in regard to saving our mustangs. Please schedule an appointment with your Senators and Congressperson for Thursday morning or Friday.
Why: The Bureau of Land Management’s cruel and costly mismanagement is destroying a vital piece of the American West. The American public is standing up for our horses and burros – Please join us in a March for Mustangs, rally and protest.
Background: Roundups increased significantly in 2000 in the Bush years and they haven’t let up under the Obama administration. 12,000 wild horses and burros are scheduled for removal from our Western public lands this fiscal year alone. These cruel helicopter roundups come at enormous expense to our wild herds and to the American taxpayer.
Recently the roundup of 1900 mustangs took place in the Calico Mountains of Northwestern Nevada during the dead of winter, ending early in February when BLM realized the herds were far smaller than estimated. To date 60 horses have died due to this roundup and the death toll continues to climb daily. This does not include the 30 plus mares that have aborted their late-term foals in the feedlot-style corrals in Fallon, Nevada, where the horses are being held. Two foals had their hooves literally separate from the bone after the helicopters ran their families for miles over rocky and sharp volcanic ground.
Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversees the BLM, has decided there is no room left for our mustangs on their legally designated lands in the West and has proposed purchasing private land and shipping wild horses (gelded stallions and mares) East to the first of seven “preserves” which many people call SalaZoos. The plan as it stands only adds to the financial train wreck that the Wild Horse and Burro Program has become.
So, rather than spending over $50 million this fiscal year to remove our wild horses and burros from the range plus $42 million to buy land in the East, let’s protect them on their Western lands. The intent of Congress’ 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act was not to warehouse our mustangs but to allow them to live in freedom in self-sustaining numbers on Western rangelands designated primarily for their survival. Drastic change is needed in the management of wild horses and burros if they are to survive, as wild animals, into the future. Wild horses benefit the land as they evolved in North America and they represent our living history in the West.
Add to the millions spent for round ups is the annual loss of $123 million running a taxpayer subsidized grazing program, often referred to as “welfare ranching”. The fees charged to livestock permittees is currently the lowest allowed by law—$1.35 per cow/calf pair per month. This rate would need to be over $9.00 in order for the program to break even. If cows were removed on legally designed wild horse herd areas and horses allowed to stay, we’d save even more—including our valued mustangs. Holding the 1900 Calico horses alone in a feedlot style facility amounts to a staggering cost of over $10,000 per day!
But change is on the way for our wild horses and burros! Some 25 protests have been mounted from coast-to-coast including Chicago, LA, NYC, Denver, Las Vegas, Reno, and Sacramento since late December. Thousands of people have braved the cold and come out with their families to hold banners and signs demanding that President Obama react to the hideous mistreatment of our spectacular wild horses and respond to the incredible waste of taxpayer dollars on a broken program that only lines the pockets of powerbrokers and cattle barons. Now is the time to say enough is enough. Open the gates and return our wild horses to their rightful ranges.
Please take action for our wild herds. An immediate moratorium on all roundups is needed! This must be followed by hearings and investigations on BLM mismanagement; accurate and independent assessments of just how many wild horses we have left and the real range conditions. Then we need to develop a sustainable plan for our wild herds on our Western public lands and restore their protections set forth in the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Moving our wild horses in non-reproducing, broken families to the East is not the answer.
Join us on Thursday, March 25th, for a Mustangs March on Washington and take action today to save these incredible animals who are currently being managed to extinction.
Take Action: Call President Obama 202-456-1111, Call your Senators 202-224-3121
Please visit www.thecloudfoundation.org for more information on this event.
Adopting Wild Mustangs
Mar 12
Pending application approval, potential adopters will be eligible to adopt one to four animals.
• All adoptions are final.
• The adopter is responsible for all adoption and care related costs; there are no refunds or
reimbursements.
• The adopter is responsible for picking up adopted animal(s) at one of the designated BLM facilities.
• Adopters are required to care for adopted mustangs until they receive title from the BLM. Mustangs will
be titled 12 months following the April 24th adoption.
• Until titled by the BLM animals cannot be sold.
BLM Website Fill out application and adopt a mustang if approved.
$100,000 SUPREME EXTREME MUSTANG MAKEOVER ADOPTION AND MAKEOVER COMPETITION
On April 24th, 2010 at 11:00 AM CST 100 five and six yr. old mustang geldings and mares will be available for adoption through Superior Livestock Productions on RFD-TV, Dish Network Channel 231 and DirecTV Channel 345. The adoption will take place via satellite and all bids will be made by phone during the two hour televised event. To become an eligible adopter you must fulfill all requirements of the Adoption Application (posted below). Adopters of the 100 “Supreme” Mustangs will be eligible to compete with the mustang for $100,000 in prize money during the Supreme Extreme Mustang Makeover to be held in Ft. Worth, TX, August 13-14, 2010.
PREVIEW HORSES: Click here to preview the 2010 Supreme Extreme horses!
Watch this video on 50,000 horses a year sent to Mexico and the brutal way of slaughtering them to ship overseas for food.
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Take a look at Roberta Edstrom’s website Knot-A-Tail.com
GOOD THINGS ABOUT HUSBANDS
1. Husbands are less expensive to shoe.
2. Feeding a husband doesn’t require anything that even mildly compares with the hassle of putting up hay.
3. A lame husband can still work.
4. A husband with a belly-ache doesn’t have to be walked. Note .. this item prompted a response from someone else:
But if you’ve ever endured a husband who is rolling on the floor, screaming, and writhing in pain with a kidney stone at three in the morning, you know you can’t put him down (and get away with it).
5. Husbands don’t try to scratch their heads on your back.
6. They’re better able to understand puns.
7. If they’re playing hard to catch you *may* be able to run them down on foot.
8. They know their name.
9. They pay their own bills.
10. They apologize when they step on your toes.
11. No saddle fitting problems.
12. They seldom refuse to get in the vehicle.
13. They don’t panic, yelling and running all through the house when you leave them alone. (unless you left the kids too)
14. For a nominal fee you can hire someone else to clip them.
15. They don’t like the lady next door just as well as you just because she fed him 3 days straight.
THE HORSE’S ADVANTAGE
1. If they don’t work out you can sell them.
2. They don’t come with in-laws.
3. You don’t have to worry about your children looking like them.
4. You never have to iron their saddle pads.
5. If you get too fat for one you can shop for a bigger one.
6. They smell good when they sweat.
7. You can repair their “clothes” with duct tape.
8. It’s possible to keep them from “jumping the fence”.
9. You can force them to stay in good physical condition…with a whip if necessary.
10. They don’t want their turn at the computer.
11. They turn white with age, but not bald.
12. They’ve never *heard* of PMS.
13. They learn to accept restraint.
14. They love to go trail riding.
15. They don’t care what you look like, as long as you have a carrot.
Good things about wives.
1. Your wife can feed herself if you have to leave town.
2. You can (usually) kiss your wife’s neck without worrying about getting your feet stepped on.
3. You can shop for a new car without worrying about whether it’s powerful enough to haul your wife.
4. If you call in sick at work to stay home and play with your wife, there’s very little risk of serious injury that will be tough to explain to the boss the next day.
5. Your wife won’t go roll in the mud right before an occasion when she needs to look her best.
6. Your wife can groom herself much better than you can.
7. Bathing your wife can be much more entertaining than bathing your horse, and doesn’t require tying her up (unless you’re into that).
8. If your wife loses a shoe, you can be pretty sure she has plenty of replacements in the closet.
9. Your wife’s mane doesn’t need to be pulled.
10. If your wife runs away from you, you don’t care whether she gets hurt.
THE HORSE’S ADVANTAGE
1. Horses are less expensive to shoe. They’ll happily wear the same set for weeks.
2. Horses are less expensive to clip, and one clip job may last all winter.
3. Your horse won’t constantly ask you if his blanket makes his butt look big.
4. Your horse won’t worry about whether his shoes match his saddle.
5. Your horse won’t complain if you occasionally ride a different one.
6. You have more options for working out your horse’s behavioral problems.
7. Your horse won’t sulk if you forget his birthday.
8. Your horse’s farts make yours seem like no big deal.
9. Your horse won’t tell all his friends about every little mistake you make.
10. Your horse won’t constantly nag you to redecorate the barn.
11. If your horse runs away from you, you can usually get him back.
Let Me Teach You
Nov 22
When you are tense, let me teach you to relax.
When you are short tempered, let me teach you to be patient.
When you are short sighted, let me teach you to see.
When you are quick to react, let me teach you to be thoughtful.
When you are angry, let me teach you to be serene.
When you feel superior, let me teach you to be respectful.
When you are self absorbed, let me teach you to think of greater things.
When you are arrogant, let me teach you humility.
When you are lonely, let me be your companion.
When you are tired, let me carry the load.
When you need to learn, let me teach you.
After all, I am your horse.
From Roberta Edstrom http://www.Knot-A-Tail.com
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Please Support George and Evelyn Gregory fight to save our Wild Mustangs by proper training for the Mustangs, but most important, training for people like you and me, so the mustangs are not abused later! Support everyone that is fighting for the mustangs and let’s get them back on the range.
George Gregory on BLM clination: "As it gets closer and before we make a presentation in front of the crowd attending a BLM adoption, we hope to offer clinic for those that would be agreeable to help us make a DVD. The DVD will not be for sale but for free distribution at those adoptions we can't attend and to anyone that wants one. Evelyn and I think we have some good information to share but doing it effectively is the key. Our goal is not to make money from this but maybe help get a few mustangs adopted. Yet that is not the most important reason we will be doing this. We want to see the adoptions take place but we want people to drive away with one they can safely train. Our biggest concern about these Mustangs is folks take them thinking what they see on a Clinton Anderson or Cris Cox video (not singling those two out) is real life. It appears to a novice they can solve major problems in 22 minutes. If we do nothing else we will be certain those that listen to us will know the process takes time and patience. The biggest heart break is to see one go to a nice home and start building a trust with their new owner and start diminishing their ability to fend for themselves. Then in the end the adopter decides they can't get it done and take the Mustang back to those BLM pens. Not bad pens understand but they are inhabited by wild horses that will take advantage of the guy that comes back totally confused by what has happened to him. Long winded I know but that's where we are on this and we may need a little help. We need some backer that may share our interest, goals and concerns. If you know of any one or business that believes they would benefit by publicly supporting us and believes in what we are trying to do. We can better accomplish this if we have the equipment to make good DVDs and get our story out there." Horse lovers follow George Gregory on Facebook
