Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Bleeding heart "free the wild horses!!" moron...

With or without beans?

My wife has a quarter horse mare I think she loves more than me and can be a disgusting pet owner but she looks at the feral horse problem and sees the bottom line as euthanasia as probably the most efficient means of management. She has known her whole life that herds need to be thinned to survive. If nature can't do it, man needs to.

Did she go vote or did she stay home with you?

Exactly............right.

I wonder what giant sloth tastes like? Might be fun to hunt?

Tarbe;
Good afternoon to you sir, though it's still morning here, nonetheless I hope you're well regardless of the time of day.

If you're ever traveling east of Ft. McLeod, AB on Highway 3, on the south side of the highway you may spy a whole bunch of horses. This is what you'd be looking at if you did.

https://www.bouvrycanada.ca/

Many non-horse folks don't understand that the horse racing industry for instance is pretty tough on a lot of participants and that is the way one's who either are injured or don't make grade are dealt with.

There are still somewhere near 500 PMU farms up here too - Pregnant Mare Urine - and of course since the mares need to be pregnant to get the chemical needed, there's a surplus of offspring correct? Half of them - the colts - end up on a one way trip to Ft. McLeod.

Locally we're having increasing issues with feral horses which have wandered off of the First Nations Federal Reserves. Since the horses technically belong to the bands or to individual band members, non band members are not really free to shoot them on sight. That doesn't mean that doesn't happen, but if one is caught there are consequences for doing so.

At the same time, there's a FN rancher I know who used to and still might do a pretty brisk business catching "surplus" or unclaimed band horses and shipping them to Ft. McLeod. He's quite a character however so he might be unique in doing that, I can't say.

Lastly, I'll agree with my cyber friend to the north ironbender that they are most certainly feral, not wild. Words matter or at least they used to and need to again in my view.

Anyways just a few thoughts from north of the medicine line and not much more.

All the best.

Dwayne

Ain't no beans in chile hippy.