Roundup Wreck
This is from Carol Walker

The Roundup of the Sand Wash Basin Herd in Colorado, and the horrible wreck involving a young wild mare who goes over backwards and is trampled while being forced into a trailer.

This roundup occurred because the Humane Society of the United States was funding a study on the use of birth control on wild horses. The contractor who was rounding up the wild horses for the Bureau of Land Management is Cook, and I have observed 1 other round up that they conducted where their treatment of the horses was cruel and inhumane. In this case, they were driving terrified horses with a helicopter into small pens, not even giving them time to settle down, then driving far too many horses through a very narrow opening into a horse trailer. These wrecks occurred the day after "media day" when the press was allowed to observe.

I contacted then Deputy Director of the BLM, Henry Bisson about this - the answer from his office was "Sometimes accidents happen, and sometimes horses are killed. Fortunately, in this case no horses were killed or seriously injured."

As a matter of fact, that mare did survive and have a foal a few months later, but 5 horses died in that round up. I also went to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting and presented the photos and was met with no response.

Just 2 years before I was at a meeting of that same Advisory board with horrible photos of yet another Cook roundup and they promised to look into it. Nothing has been done. The contractor Cook is still one of the two main contractors used by the BLM to round up wild horses and preventable accidents continue to happen.The other contractor is Cattoor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPs3qg7CpMs - Video

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