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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
WILL WILD HORSES BE THANKFUL FOR YOU? 
".. we have saved
about 25% of the horses so far. When you look at how many are still
out there, your heart breaks. But, for the horses that have been saved, it is EVERYTHING. The situation is fast coming to a close, and I can't imagine it being a happy one. We officially have 7 days left. It is terribly
painful to get to know these horses and realize that we won't be able to
save them all.
The
stallions are fighting non stop as we break their hearts. Every time
we steal their families, they fight more and it is obvious they are
hurting. They run the fence line, screaming for their families.
My heart is breaking and it makes you
physically ill. Every night when your head hits the pillow, it all
comes crashing down. Knowing how many of these horses will probably be
slaughtered, the stallions especially, is too much to bear.
These horses never ever did anything to deserve this. There is too much pain here to cry away, but every morning you get back up and start over.
We
will keep fighting until the bitter end and bring home as many horses as we have funding for.."
Here's how you can help:1) Make a $50 tax-deductible donation here: http://www.chillypepper.org/donate--support.html  Labels: books, donate, foals, horse slaughter, mares, Palomino Armstrong, phantom stallion, stallions, Wild at Heart, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:08 PM 0 comments  
Sunday, May 15, 2016 Book Kids are Wild at Heart Q&A with Terri Farley Meghan Goel of BOOK PEOPLE, an independent bookstore in Austin, Texas, interviewed Terri Farley about her new book Wild at Heart and the fired-up kids that inspired her. Meghan Goel: Why did you write this book for kids now? Terri Farley: I had to write Wild at Heart before it was too late. I’d been writing The Phantom Stallion fiction series since 2002 and young readers fell in love with the West’s wild horses. In my stories, I could write happy endings for mustangs, but if round-ups continue at the current hectic pace, my readers might never see mustangs running free. And oh, do they want to! Kids from all over the world write to me, vowing to come West just to see them. Like most adults, kids don’t know that mustangs and the lands they roam actually belong to them — the American public. Wild horses captured by the government are not going from homes on the range to greener pastures. Often, they go to Mexican slaughter houses. and they want to know how they can help. My book got its sub-title – Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them — because I want to empower kids – not crush their hopes. Kids are relieved to learn the young people I interviewed for Wild at Heart are not perfect. Some of the featured young people were able to turn their own pain from abuse and bullying to empathy and action for the mustangs. Other kids in the book use their skills – singing, social media skills, and understanding of animals – to make a difference. No matter how much these kids may struggle in other aspects of their lives, when they stand up for wild horses, their courage is contagious.
MG: What do you hope kids will take away from Wild at Heart? TF: I hope I show them they’re worth having the author of a book come to talk with them. That may sound strange, but just today, in Austin, two little girls asked me why I was so dressed up. When I told them it was because I was coming to see them, they were giddy. Kids don’t live in the past, so I search for up-to- the-minute facts on everything to do with wild horses. The scientists I interview admit they’re generous with their time because they want to give young readers access to non- politicized facts. To read the complete Q&A and more about WILD HORSES click here Labels: Austin, BLM round ups, BookPeople, books, children's books, HMH books, horse slaughter, independent bookstores, Meghan Goel, mustangs, phantom stallion, public lands, school visits, Texas, Wild at Heart, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:43 AM 0 comments
Saturday, October 24, 2015 BLM Cares Really, Truly, Deeply About Wild Horses BLM 2008: Killing captive wild horses “magic bullet for budget problems"BLM 2015: Killing captive wild horses sold to Tom Davis in 2008 was "deceitful"
According to
the Associated Press ”Steven Ellis, the BLM’s deputy director of operations, lamented
Davis’ ‘deceitful actions.’”
I mean, BLM had absolutely no idea what Davis had done with 1,794 federally-protected wild horses.
Really?
It’s been
almost 7 years to the day since my op-ed in the Reno Gazette Journal quoted then-BLM Deputy Director Henri Bisson who suggested killing captive wild horses might be a “magic bullet for budget problems".
At the same time, Susie Stokke, then Nevada’s Wild Horse and
Burro Program Manager, told KUNR that though BLM spends millions on many
programs, “aggressive management of wild horses is the magic bullet for BLM budget
shortfall.”
2008: Sally Spencer, director of program which sold wild horses to Davis:
I mean, it almost sounds like a policy had been born.
Still, after the publication of the Op-Ed and a longer blog on the same topic, I heard from Spencer
who asked why I’d turned on the BLM. I responded that I was tired of lies, and never heard from her again.
The Denver Post
quotes the report : “Between 2008 and 2012, Davis spent $17,940 on horses from
the BLM... “ and “BLM spent more than $140,000 delivering the horses to Davis…”
If this wasn't an attempt to balance the BLM budget on the backs of wild horses, what was it?
Before this report came out, I asked BLM questions about Tom Davis and other wild horse policies. They never answered, so I turned to government websites.
"Myth #2: It is the BLM's policy to sell or send wild horses to slaughter. Fact: This charge is absolutely false. The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management care deeply about the well-being of wild horses" But they sent them to slaughter, just the same. ------------------
Author's Note: Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt pushed back its publication deadline
to give the agency over a year to respond to inquiries about wild horses, but BLM chose not to answer a single question
on the record for my recent non-fiction book, Wild At Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
Labels: BLM, Department of Interior, Henri Bisson, horse slaughter, kill buyers, mustangs, Office of the Inspector General, Sally Spencer, slaughter, Steven Ellis, Susan Stokke, Tom Davis, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 1:13 AM 3 comments
Sunday, September 22, 2013 What Kind of Cowgirl Eats Horses?
ODE TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE SUE &
THE BUTCHERIN’ CREW
by Lacy J. Dalton
What kind of cowgirl eats horses?
What kind of Rodeo Queen?
There’s plenty of steak
So give me a break,
Eatin’ a pony’s just mean.
What kind of cowboy eats horses?
When he’s spent his whole life
raisin’ beef,
With the ebb and the flow of the
market,
Why butcher a horse to compete?
CHORUS
And to those who believe in the Good
Book,
I’ll share the Lord’s words in this
song,
When it comes down to meat,
The split hoofs to eat,
But eatin’ the single-hoofed critters
like horses is wrong.
What kind of a Nation eats horses?
What kind of a Nation eats pets?
Will the Feds pass a law to eat
puppies?
Will Grandma and Grandpa be next?
CHORUS
And to those who believe in the Good
Book,
I’ll share the Lord’s words in this
song,
When it comes down to meat,
The split hoofs to eat,
But eatin’ the single-hoofed critters like horses is wrong.
Boys, eatin’ a horse is just wrong!
 Story behind the song : Labels: horse slaughter, Lacy J. Dalton, lyrics, Sue Wallis, United Horsemen, wild horse Annie Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 3:27 PM 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
Saturday, June 22, 2013 Love & Groceries Turn Dead-end Arabian into Dream Horse  
Dear Readers, This is an update from Palomino. Anything I added is in bold print.
When a horse is "given away for free, or sold for a very modest
price", how sure are you where they actually end up? Many people are
not aware that there is a huge, sadistic and ever growing market for
cheap and free horses. Here's how people looking for these horses appear like the perfect new owners --
People "rent" part of someone's
ranch to show the perfect new home for your horse, but they are in kahoots with the ranch
owner. Both buyer and property owner share in the profits.
"Husband and wife" or perfect
"couple" appear to be such animal people, but they're
skilled kill buyers
Buyer claims to need a number of gentle horses for a 4-H, church, at-risk kids program
Knight was advertised "for free to a good home". I did not see the ad , but was told about the horse. Since we are having a such a crisis nationwide where "free" horses are picked up and sent to slaughter, we jumped at the chance to pick up this Arabian. We had not seen him, but committed to picking him up the very day we were told about him. We changed his name and now BLACK MAGIC is at home with us, and doing very well, thanks to our local vet, but he might have ended up in the slaughter pipeline.
So, if any of you out there are looking for an equine friend, check out those
"free horses". They may l need training or special
supplements, but look at how Magic looks compared to when we brought him
home. He is a wonderful horse and has an enormous amount of potential.
P.S. Groceries, vitamins and medicine aren't free. If you can't take in a needy horse, please help Palomino do it ! You can donate here: http://chillypepper.weebly.com/donations.html Labels: Black Magic, Chilly Pepper Miracle Mustang, horse slaughter, Palomino Armstrong, rescue Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 3:55 PM 1 comments
Saturday, March 02, 2013 Horse Poem for the Citizens of Oklahoma  HERE I AMHere I am. I was your partner, I thought I was your friend even. I guess I was wrong. I helped you, loved you, trusted you, did my best for you. Look at me now. Can you look me in the eye? Here I am. I'm afraid, in pain, alone. Was it because of me or you? I gave my all for you. I'm sorry I got old. I didn't mean to stumble. I don't want to blame you; I want to love you. Here I am. I need you. I'm terrified. Many are with me, but really we're all alone. We want to trust, love, live again. I don't want to be alone. I don't want to die. Here I am. Sold for meat. Sentenced to death. Thousands of us. Was it worth it? Didn't you ever love me? Am I nothing more than a cast-off toy to you? Here I am. Won't you save me? Save me. Is that so hard to do? I want to live. Thousands like me want to be loved. Save us. Please. Hear we are. Scared. Unloved. Alone. Starved. Dying. Hear my dying breath. I still love you. Here I am. -BorrowedWingsOfPegasus A note from Rebecca: So this is my poem. I don't know if you'll like it or not, but I think it's a way that some may see what a loving family horse sent to the slaughter may feel. Hearing the Phantoms hoof beats, Rebecca G., penname BorrowedWingsOfPegasus Labels: horse slaughter, Oklahoma, poem, Rebecca Gilbert Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 7:36 AM 0 comments
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