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 #wildhorses going into ring #fallonslaughter
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 #fallonslaughter cafe joking haha "best horse I ever had." Hilarious, dude
Lots of limping #wildhorses. Bad enough I can see from a distance
Terri Farley
Owner #fallonslaughter auction says lawsuit cost #wildhorses homes, may truck them out of here 2 have" heads chopped off"
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 #fallonslaughter
Lot of these guys in a quandary: blame Indians or wimmen(no matter that me advocates are here 2)? #Fallonslaughter
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 #fallonslaughter cafe
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 #fallonslaughter
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 #fallonslaughter
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 #fallonslaughter
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 #fallonslaughter
Terri Farley
Have a mission: a grandmother wants me to find a young buckling #mustang for her grandkids to learn from. On it #fallonslaughter
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
Without your commentary I never would have known. Thank you. I am angry with a purpose to help instead of watch.
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