Horse found with brand cut out - MSNBC news

[Sanely Eccentric]

I don't even know what to say. :eek:


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31856204/ns/us_news-life/

[Woodland]

Gad that is disgusting & VILE!

This is disturbing from the article:

While no group keeps track of how many horses have been abandoned nationwide, some Western states have reported a surge in the problem. Experts attribute the increase to the faltering economy, saying it's forcing some horse owners to choose between feeding their families and their horses.

Nevada agriculture officials have picked up more than 100 domestic horses from the range this year, including 90 in the past three months, Foster said. That's up from a previous high of 63 last year and 12 the year before.

Abandoned horses on rise
Wyoming Brand Commissioner Lee Romsa said his state has handled more than 100 such cases this year, up from 50 last year and an average of six to eight cases before that.

I love how they say to just give an unwanted horse to a rescue = like any of them have room :no:

Just a sad time to be an unwanted or neglected horse right now :no:

[suze]

The a** who did it that deserves a hole in his hide the same size as the one he cut in that poor horse. :mad: That's really despicable.

[Bluey]

You know they had to have the horse out to be able to cut that much out, without the horse throwing a fit and getting hurt and having kicking and rope marks on her too.
I wonder if they knocked her out and thought she was dead and cut the brand, so they could not trace her back to them, left her for dead and some later she came to, wherever they had left her and went to roaming?

Those that steal cattle and butcher them generally cut the brand off and ears or eartag, so if found the owner can't be determined and the cattle maybe traced back to them.

I think it would have been very hard to cut that out, without her being out.

She will be fine, injuries like that heal easily, I have seen worse, the skin peeled off in strips, from mountain lion attacks and healed well.

[Dispatcher]

My god. why didn't they just shoot her? Turning her loose with that kind of wound--wouldn't infection set in and cause her so much suffering? It blows my mind that people think a domesticated animal can live by itself in the "wild". Dogs, cats, horses, whatever. Truly atrocious what people can do to animals.

[cloudyandcallie]

My god. why didn't they just shoot her? Turning her loose with that kind of wound--wouldn't infection set in and cause her so much suffering? It blows my mind that people think a domesticated animal can live by itself in the "wild". Dogs, cats, horses, whatever. Truly atrocious what people can do to animals.

We are a disposable society. When people "get tired" of animals, they dump them out or stave them in a pen. It was happening many years ago when I was a kid. Now that the economy is so bad, everyone blames it on the economy. And with the internet and lots of TV coverage, we're seeing what used to be hidden.
There should be low cost euth-ing for unwanted animals. And no breeding by 90% of the people.

[Dispatcher]

We are a disposable society. When people "get tired" of animals, they dump them out or stave them in a pen. It was happening many years ago when I was a kid. Now that the economy is so bad, everyone blames it on the economy. And with the internet and lots of TV coverage, we're seeing what used to be hidden.
There should be low cost euth-ing for unwanted animals. And no breeding by 90% of the people.

I so agree

[nightsong]

with the internet and lots of TV coverage, we're seeing what used to be hidden.

this is the TRUTH. I saw SO MUCH of it when I was in the mountain west.

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

I am aghasted.

[Angela Freda]

"Unfortunately, slaughterhouses are a necessary evil," Hayhurst said. "Without being able to ship a horse to a slaughterhouse, people turn them loose."

Why can't these horses be shipped to slaughter? 100s of thousands are going this year. It's not like slaughter is gone, or illegal.

And so, even if one outlet for getting rid of your horse was gone, you 'excuse' abandoning the horse as the only other option? C'mon. Abandoning the animal like that is still illegal, even if other options weren't available to the owner.

And how do they know all those cases of abandoned horses were 'dumped'? Could some of them not be escapees? Sensationalism.

[chaltagor]

And how do they know all those cases of abandoned horses were 'dumped'? Could some of them not be escapees? Sensationalism.

Where do they think wild horses in the US came from anyway? People have always slaughtered and eaten horses, yet there have always been wild ones here in the US since they were introduced. Proof that this isn't new news at all, but more fodder for those that want to keep slaughtering horses.

[Bluey]

Where do they think wild horses in the US came from anyway? People have always slaughtered and eaten horses, yet there have always been wild ones here in the US since they were introduced. Proof that this isn't new news at all, but more fodder for those that want to keep slaughtering horses.

I don't think that an escapee horse would have had the brand cut out and that is what it looks happened there, that is not a regular injury, too neat and square cut.:confused: