BLM SALE PROGRAM: 427 wild horses seeking homes

[NVMojo]

Remember the wildhorse slaughters or auctions for food in France?

WASHINGTON -- The federal government is looking for homes for more than 400 wild horses after buyers this spring pulled out of revised contracts imposing criminal penalties for selling the animals to slaughter.

Twenty individuals and two tribes seeking 427 wild horses canceled their contracts after the Bureau of Land Management in April suspended its infant sale program amid reports of horse slaughter, according to interviews with BLM officials and agency records obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request.

"A number of these individuals had completed the necessary paperwork, some even had sent checks paying for their animals. However, they still decided not to complete the purchases and backed out," BLM spokesman Tom Gorey said.

"The biggest reason was the frustration in the whole sale program being shut down for over a month," he added. "Some people just said 'Forget it.' "

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Oct-31-Mon-2005/news/4062301.html

[FloridaPat]

1. Wow! $3000 to take care of a horse for the rest of it's life. They live

up to 40 years I think. Yes, that is way to much money, especially compared to the $2 billion a week we pay for the Iraq invasion and the $400,000 per year we'll have to pay * unless he gets impeached, tried, and found guilty.

And I like horses much more than most humans.