Could USDA horse slaughterhouse approval be good news for wild horses?

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture closed slaughterhouses that processed horse meat in 2007, the adoptions and sales of wild horses took a sharp drop and never recovered. Beginning in 2005, the BLM allowed the sales of wild horses at least 10 years old that had been passed over for adoption at least three times.…

Wild horse buyer goes uncharged due to state oversight

Cross-posted from Colorado Spring Gazette by Dave Philipps Tom Davis has not been charged nor investigated Two state agencies dropped the ball when it came to prosecuting a southern Colorado wild horse buyer who admitted to breaking state laws while shipping hundreds of federally protected wild horses. The buyer, Tom Davis of La Jara, has…