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Thursday, August 29, 2013
To the Strong Ones
Older Mustang Stallions at the Fallon Livestock Exchange
Scar-linked blood brothersStare through scent memoriesfarFrom sage rain herd-homeLabels: blood brothers, Cat Kindsfather, fallon livestock exchange, photo, stallions Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:38 AM 2 comments  
Thursday, August 22, 2013 Mustangs Behind Bars: What did they do wrong? Dear Readers,  I don't know if the Calico Mountains foal, above, is the same young horse on the right. Both gaze through the bars of BLM's Palomino Valley facility. I do know the expression on these pale face is the same: Why am I here? My life is out there. The capture and carnage must stop. Terri Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 12:04 AM 1 comments
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 SAVE WILD HORSES WITH YOUR LITTLE FINGERS
Media outlets judge public interest in topics by the number of "clicks" the story gets. And if it gets written responses -- whoa, baby! -- it's a HOT topic and must be covered.
Labels: Google Alert, whining, wild horses, write Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:56 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 THESE LITTLE PONIES WENT TO MARKET   LIVE TWEETING feels like a cross between fast-breaking journalism and haiku poetry. It allows me to cover the most disturbing stories with controlled emotions. Many of YOU were disturbed because you don't know how to Tweet and weren't following the slaughter sale of wild horses on Saturday August 17. Below you can read my liveTweet coverage from Nevada's Fallon Livestock Exchange. If you need clarification of some of my funky abbreviations, just ask. Please forgive me misspellings and non-nimble fingers. I was trying to get the info out as soon as possible. As you may know, Twitter only allows 140 characters (letters, numbers and spaces) in each entry. This is what came before and during the auction. After the auction, hundreds of horses were saved. Hundreds went to slaughter. Tomorrow, we learn the future of the unbranded horses, as decided by a Federal judge. August 17 six a.m.
Come to Fallon livestock exchange. Get a bidding # so u can help search for unbranded
Have been ordered to leave
Sorting mares and goals w hot shot
Lots of neighing Still on property Terri Farley
Guy just came out of
Lots of limping
Terri Farley
Owner
Kill buyers: rallying of the clans 2 combat diminished income. Every buyer I have ever heard about
Sheriff deputies getting sick of auction staff sicc-ing them on advocates using their cell phones...Not shooting photos. Honest
Kill buyers are getting really rude just walking by and sniping at anyone they even suspect of liking horses. @Fallonslaughter
Office still locked. Need bidder # to tour horses . None issued yet? Parents w kids here, trying to explain
Lot of these guys in a quandary: blame Indians or wimmen(no matter that me advocates are here 2)?
Huge HUGE legal fees involved in Got my # to bid Terri Farley
Recharging cell and eating almonds. Should guarantee auction starts. No way am i spending money in
Interview w BBC. Super.Still no auction but more big trucks#fallonslaughter
Finally walking thru pens. Every girls dream horses.
About to start auction.
Arlo of ft McDermitt clarified these are all native horses
Farley
Palomino. Mare and foal sold. 800 dun pony w bay colt 200
Brown mare w buck foal 325 . Appy mom w dark foal 325. Both saved
Interior of auction.looks about the same as one I was able. 2 photo in Jan. Little. Cleaner
Frantic mare and foal sold 225 to killer
Perfect Indian paint w paint baby 300. Palomino and ivory paint with golden foal 300 Terri Farley
Horses are very banged up, face an chest esp. Some so damaged that
Advocates think they should be put down out of humanity
2 orphans. Auctioneer checking w Deniz to see if they can be sold even though unbranded. She said ok but lots of pressure Terri Farley
These beautiful horses are selling for Starbucks money.z
Almost all mares w foals and young horses have been saved. Advocates are really stepping up
Terri Farley
Have a mission: a grandmother wants me to find a young buckling
2 geldings- - paint w black swatches over eyes and his honey palimino buddy- - were in one of the big lots bought by killer
Someone talked the kill buyer into selling her the b n w paint w swatches but buyer didn't take palomino. Kill buyer got a pen of mares and foals why on earth?
Auction over. Horses loading. Most for the better
Labels: Fallon, fallon livestock exchange, horse slaughter, kill buyers, slaughter sale, tribal horses, unbranded horses, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 8:12 PM 1 comments
Friday, August 16, 2013 My First Trip to a WILD HORSE Slaughter Auction
Dear Readers, I'm counting down the minutes. Federal Judge Miranda Du set a hearing by teleconference for 1:30 p.m. today to decide whether to grant a temporary restraining order suspending the auction of over 400 wild horses. It's 3:35 p.m. I don't want to return to the Fallon Livestock Exchange tomorrow. My heart hasn't mended from the first time. My First Trip to a Slaughter AuctionFor years, I've known that wild horses and their tame cousins are sent to livestock auctions where they face "kill buyers." I wrote such an auction in GIFT HORSE. It was based on interviews and research. On January 9 of this year, I attended a slaughter auction. My heart falls heavy in my chest when I think about it and my throat aches like it's full of splinters when I try to talk about it. I went to this auction to find 41 wild horses which had been trapped by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Members of the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Preservation Campaign hoped to use donations -- from people around the world! -- to buy back the wild ones. But the horses that I can't forget were domestic horses. Trailered for miles and then left in strange corrals, they neighed and whinnied after their owners. Before the auction Shannon Windle and I walked around looking for the mustangs, but the horses that came up to fences, puzzled and friendly, were cow ponies, race horses, a burned-out endurance horse and mounts that had helped children learn to ride. Herded down a chute and into the auction ring, many realized they were in danger. So, they did what they'd learned to do. They trotted up to the edge of the auction ring and nudged at boots of audience members. Those horses had been raised as pets or at least, trained to trust humans. They didn't know where they were. They didn't understand what was expected of them. They didn't know why they were in an unfamiliar place that smelled of fear. Ironically, they turned for help to the species that had betrayed them. I think the only thing that kept me using my head during that long, long day, was doing a series of live posts via Twitter, for horse lovers far away. I hope I don't ever have to do it again. Labels: fallon livestock exchange, kill buyers, live Tweet, Rambles, slaughter auction, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 4:36 PM 2 comments
Sunday, August 11, 2013 Teachers & Librarians: Free books for you  Dear Teachers and Librarians,
Multiple copies of the Phantom Stallion and Wild Horse Island foreign language
editions pictured here are sitting, unloved, in boxes.
The French translations are soft cover and I have no Spanish editions, but the books shown above are
Education Tip: When I do school visits, I bring along American originals
and foreign editions. Then, because cover art differs so from country to
country, I ask students to compare/contrast cultural perceptions of today's
American West. Even the little ones love looking for clues
to make matches.
If you’d like to check your libraries for HarperCollins copies
you already have, these books are, from left:
TOP Row: Phantom Stallion 2, 3 and Wild Horse Island 1
MIDDLE Row: Phantom Stallion 3, 4, 8, Wild Horse Island 2
BOTTOM row: Phantom
Stallion 4, 6, 5, 6
Feel free to shoot me a personal email farleyterri@aol.com from your school or library email address if you’re interested.
Have a wonderful school year,
Terri
Labels: foreign language editions, librarians, libraries, phantom stallion, teachers, wild horse island Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 2:17 PM 0 comments
Saturday, August 10, 2013 Welcome to Palomino Valley, where Free Spirits Go to Die Dear Readers, I'll post my own notes and opinion soon. Until then, I want to share Monika Courtney's editorial with you. Monika is an elfin Swiss woman, now a resident of Colorado, who stands up for the wild horses. Best, Terri
August 9,
2013 11:20 am
By Monika
Courtney, Evergreen, Colo.
Was the
quick organizing of a BLM workshop in Reno a courteous act or another PR stunt
– pulling a hand brake on bad publicity pertaining to animal cruelty at Palomino
Valley government holding facility?
I fear it is
the latter.
The
workshop’s structure defined biased control, a la Delphi style. Time restraints
and biased input by “experts” recruited by BLM, rendering opinions rather than
integral advice on current lack of shelter in higher climatic heat trends…
reflected disregard for horses and us.
Despite Joan
Guilfoyle’s (Division Chief) welcome gospel of “engaging with public”, most
left with a sense of non-accomplishment.
You may see
a shade going up over the sick pen, the sole objective of PhD, UC Davis
recruits insisting on lack of shade studies on wild horses, therefore
forfeiting the benefits thereof to the confined, suffering equines in their
care. They even claimed shade increases insects, when the contrary is pointed
out by reputable equine veterinarian experts.
These vet
recommendations, shelter/heat stress /nutritional info, NWS weather charts,
photos of wild horses in shade on the range were submitted. Common sense of
roof structures as they have over hay stacks but none for horses does not
exist. It is dispelled with biased scholar magic geared to halt public pressure
of increasingly concerned tax payers. Moreover, sequester excuses garnish the agenda.
While monies are allocated to continued “emergency” round ups to stockpile more
horses, non-existing “shade research on wild horses” is discussed to deter from
the goal.
The neglect
is real. 7 inch long curled duck feet hooves of limping horses in the “trim”
pen (just when?), foals baking, the suffering and inhumanity are a disturbing
whopper to digest. Anyone in doubt, take a trip to PVC.
The ghostly
broken spirits trapped onto 160 acres of hell are prisoners of a self-serving
agency, demonizing them since decades. With a self-inflicted crisis, the budget
pie is off the rocker as tax funds go to round ups, holding, and administrative
overhead. Little to none is given to welfare or more sensible on the range
management.
The one size
fits all quick fix scriptures of BLM, evicting more horses as I type, causes
unspeakable suffering. Yet, BLM creates horse mills resembling feedlots, with
absence of modernity and wellbeing to animals, which would label any private
person a sadist.
The saddest
chapter in this book of misery is that those in charge are outlandishly
detached. Federal guidelines to holding do not currently exist– but agony and
suffering. Policy handbooks with strict quality care to be implemented are
needed now. Life on the range, as the 1971 Act intended, with mustangs’
contribution to the balance of the eco-system where they also help prevent
wildfires, seems to be a science BLM is not willing to consider.
Surely, life
in the wild is more humane than the equine concentration camps and death pens.
Thinking of the pleading horses I met at Palomino Valley… I think they would
agree.
Labels: dead foal, Monika Courtney, Palomino Valley, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 12:54 PM 0 comments
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