Tuesday, August 20, 2013
THESE LITTLE PONIES WENT TO MARKET
Dear Readers,
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.
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Have been ordered to leave auction property
Lots of neighing Still on property
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Kill buyers: rallying of the clans 2 combat diminished income. Every buyer I have ever heard about
Kill buyers claim horses look better than they would've thought. Jok ing that tribes went to pal valley and took their pick
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Wish I could photograph the huge, ominous truck ready to head for the border full of
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Interview w BBC. Super.Still no auction but more big trucks#fallonslaughter
Denis Suzanne and laura Lee found unbranded horses among branded. They've been pulled
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Farley
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Interior of auction.looks about the same as one I was able. 2 photo in Jan. Little. Cleaner
Horsepower buying horses. Yes. Also bidding for many
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2 orphans. Auctioneer checking w Deniz to see if they can be sold even though unbranded. She said ok but lots of pressure
Orphans bought togetr. Now adult horses. Footsore yearling 100to. Killer
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Sorry for the gap in N coverage. being sold in lots of 12 now.
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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?
Labels: Fallon, fallon livestock exchange, horse slaughter, kill buyers, slaughter sale, tribal horses, unbranded horses, wild horses
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Terri Farley @ 8:12 PM
Comments:
Without your commentary I never would have known. Thank you. I am angry with a purpose to help instead of watch.