Anger over conditions for captured Wyoming horses
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A wild Equus caballus advocacy grouping is angered past times the handling of 668 horses captured inwards a Wyoming roundup, maxim they are beingness given inadequate shelter from bitter wintertime conditions.
The Cloud Foundation says the animals taken inwards the roundup are beingness held inwards facilities without adequate windbreaks or shelter.
Most stallions were shipped 300 miles to the Gunnison Prison Wild Horse Program inwards primal Utah, piece the mares together with foals were sent to the Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs corrals, according to wild Equus caballus together with burro specialist Jay D’Ewart.
Neither facility had adequate air current breaks or shelter for the captive animals, together with eyewitnesses inwards Rock Springs reported bitter mutual frigidity together with battering winds, the foundation said.
Wild Equus caballus lensman Carol Walker said: “Mares together with foals seemed frozen inwards place, resigned, unmoving. There is no shelter for these horses inwards brusk term asset facilities together with although they lead keep heavy wintertime coats, these horses lead keep nowhere to exit of the biting, stinging wind.
“In their natural setting, they would live out of sight inwards depression areas, gullies, side past times side to cliffs, sheltered from the wind.”
The foundation said it questioned the bureau inwards Rock Springs close whether at that topographic point were windbreaks for the horses held there. The bureau responded past times e-mail that the horses had windbreaks.
But Walker is unconvinced. “Look at my pictures together with run across if yous run across adequate windbreaks. The temperature was below zero amongst the snowfall blasting through the pens where the horses were huddled together for warmth.”
The foundation said it asked for numbers held at Rock Springs, simply was told to file a Freedom of Information Act request, which it said could accept months to process.
It said unless it got a caput count immediately, at that topographic point may live no mode to create upwardly one's heed foal survival rates.
The foundation called on Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to address the situation.
“First the horses are rounded upwardly inwards the bitter cold, together with at nowadays they are trapped inwards modest corrals that create non offering the horses whatsoever protection from the elements,” said Rachel Reeves, who attended together with photographed the roundup.
“It is heartbreaking to run across these wild horses beingness held captive inwards such inhumane conditions. I specially worry for the modest foals, unopen to of whom were less than 2 months quondam when they were rounded upwardly together with removed.”
Lisa Friday, a Virginia wild Equus caballus adopter together with advocate, said: “As adopters, nosotros must lead keep adequate shelter for our BLM mustangs. Why is the regime non held to the same standard? It is long past times fourth dimension for a change!”
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