Restore the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act

From 1971 until 2004, wild horses and burros were protected from slaughter. In 2004, they lost that protection and we want their protection restored.
On December 15, 1971, Congress enacted 16 USC Ch. 30, popularly known as the "Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act" (WHBA) and declared "that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death; and to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands. 

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Thousands of our wild horses have been sold and slaughtered as a result of this amendment. Any wild horse or burro more than 10 years old OR not adopted after being offered three (3) times can be sold without limitation, INCLUDING weanlings, pregnant mares and elderly band stallions that have lived their entire life on the the range. THIS IS WRONG!!

Please click this link to sign the Petition to Congress.

Ruby from Colorado wrote:

PAY ATTENTION TO OUR WILD HORSES AND BURROS! THEY DO NOT HARM THE LAND LIKE DAMN CATTLE! 
DO NOT ALLOW SLAUGHTER, PLEASE! tHESE ANIMALS MEAN SO MUCH TO US OUT HERE IN THE WEST.


Catherine from Chicago writes:

How was an amendment approved that directly contradicts and violates the WHBA? What is wrong with our government that this I allowed to happen. As a taxpayer who has no say in how my hard-earned dollars are wasted, I DEMAND that Congress REPEAL 803(a) of Public Law 104333, as well as 142(a)(1) and 142(a)(2) of Public Law 108447. This is MY money funding these abhorrent bills and I want these bill repealed! Work for your citizens, not against them!

Please go to this website to read more comments, and to sign the petition.

NYC carriage horses working in brutal storm.

Click here to read Elizabeth Forel's excellent article in The Dodo.

I love the picture of Monty, Rocco and Teddy romping in the snow, with their adorable blankets. They are so cute, happy and handsome! Scroll down a little to see some pictures of them.

Please Sign the Petition to Get Carriage Horses off the Cruel, Crowded Streets of New York City

 This link is a quote from the post:

I am calling on NYC to ban the cruel, inhumane and unsafe carriage horse industry. It is time to retire the horses to sanctuaries. Horses do not belong in a congested, urban setting where they constantly breathe exhaust while dodging dangerous traffic. The horses live their lives confined to the shafts of their carriage and the shafts of their stable stalls, with no access to green pastures.

Another quote from the post ---- An eloquent plea for compassion. (I don't want to create the mistaken impression that I wrote this myself. I do agree with it, though.): 

Nine hours a day, seven days a week, they're pushed into Midtown traffic, forced to pull a carriage full of tourists just inches from noxious car tailpipe fumes, honking taxis and ambulance sirens. They only narrowly avoid collisions with cars, trucks, bikers and people every day, often working until 3 AM under the brash lights and drunken crowds of Times Square. And at the end of their shift, there's no green acres for them to roll and run -- it's right back to the stables and back onto the streets again. That's a plight we wouldn't wish on any person or animal.

From reading elsewhere on this website (blog?), I have also learned that there ARE homes for every one of the carriage horses in NYC right now.

AND --- no horses will be slaughtered for meat.

Apparently those are two arguments that carriage horse proponents try to use as excuses for opposing the ban on carriage horses.

I can hardly wait for that ban to start up.