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Issue: "Trap and toss" horse management. Nevada's horse dumping machine continues to rumble on.
Priority: Informational
Status: Working
Date: January 10, 2013
This is Part Thirteen in a series on the Virginia Range horses and the Nevada Department of Agriculture. To understand the context of this report, please start at Part One.
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42 MORE VIRGINIA RANGE HORSES
RESCUED FROM LIVESTOCK SALE
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(Continued from 42 More Virginia Range Horses Rescued.)
The state highways had been kept clear however the road into the ranch was snow-covered, with new powder collecting as the advocates arrived. Traction was a challenge and even though all of the vehicles were 4-wheel-drive, a couple of the trailer combinations couldn't make it up the one-lane road.
The advocates unhooked one of the pickups, put chains on the pickup's front tires and the trailers were brought up using a tug-tow system with two pickups towing each trailer.
2-Pickup power: Tugging the tow vehicle with loaded trailer past parked unloaded trailers.
Closeup of the tug-tow operation.
Unloading horses.
Horses getting acquainted. (Panels separate the feeding areas but all horses have access to the entire pasture.)
The creams are checked out by a couple of bays.
Little Diamond (foreground) and her dam settle in.
Twilight and the storm finally starts to clear as the volunteers prepare to pull out.
This transport took all day. The remaining 8 horses, "Bandit and his band," were boarded overnight at the stockyard and will be picked up today. That report will be attached to this one once the horses are safely delivered.
Anyone willing to take any of these horses and provide them with suitable homes, or can contribute to the horses' rescue fund, is encouraged to visit the
Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund's web site.
Meanwhile you can help try to end this onslaught on Velma "Wild Horse Annie" Johnston's historic herd by contacting the officials listed at the bottom of this page and expressing your views.
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