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We just received an exciting email last night and ask our readers to check out his face book and show your support.
The email goes as follows;
Hi Bob
My name is Tim McMillan I am the MLA for the Lloydminster riding (Saskatchewan) and I have just introduced a Private members Bill to protect the wild ponies of the Bronson Forest. These are our only wild horses in Sask and the bill has just received first reading. I wanted to make you aware as you share a common interest and i will need all the support i can get to get this bill through. I will attach the Face Book page that we started to get support. Thank you and feel free to pass it on.
Tim McMillan
GO TIM GO!!!
See also this link from the Intl Fund for Horses
My thoughts;
It is a terrific start in seeing possible changes in legislation in Saskatchewan. Whereby all of Canada’s wild horses could benefit down the line, should the other provinces do the right thing and follow suit. The present treatment of our wild horses in the Western provinces is shocking. In BC the horses have been shot, and their bodies laced with poisen in order to kill off wolves. In Alberta they are shot for sport by low lifes and then left to rot. During the four month capture season in Alberta which started November 1st, the horses are chased on horse back,roped and choked down, then dragged to an awaitng trailer and then usually hauled to the slaughter house. The other method is using booby trapped capture pens that are baited with salt and hay to lure the horses in, and again most of these unfortunates are sent to slaughter.
Some have asked if it is more humane for a cougar or a pack of wolves to get them, or a bolt gun in a slaughter house? At least the terror and pain of a predator lasts but a few minutes but the terror of being caught, held without food or water and then shipped in an over crowded trailer and then finally killed at the plant, is a process that takes several torturous days.
Having personally seen wild horses, who are proud, magestic and free of man’s oppression, they are awe inspiring. If I was a horse and had my druthers, I’d take my chances with the four legged predators, over their two legged counterparts.
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