Reward Offered for Information on Killing of Stray Horses
Edited Press Release
August 3, 2015
The Bureau of Land Management is investigating the killing of 21 stray horses near Thermopolis, Wyoming.
The Bureau of Land Management is investigating the killing of 21 stray horses near Thermopolis, Wyoming.
The BLM plans to gather up to 167 horses using water- and bait-trapping and helicopter gather operations.
The BLM will gather 15 to 20 adoptable horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, south of Billings, Montana.
The bill would amend the Horse Protection Act to ban performance packages and stiffen soring penalties.
The tribunal suspended two riders and an owner for 24 months each after their horses tested positive for propoxyphene.
The AAEP has awarded the Unwanted Horse Coalition a grant of $5,000 to be put towards its Operation Gelding fund.
Both riders had been provisionally suspended after their horses tested positive for prohibited substances.
The move follows an investigation into horse welfare issues and noncompliance with FEI endurance rules and regulations.
Thoroughbred trainer Tom Amoss was suspended for 45 days and fined $5,000 for a 2011 positive test for methocarbamol.
The legislation would place the herds under the jurisdiction of the states and Native American tribes that request it.
The commission suspended clenbuterol use in Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds racing that state though July 2016.
A 3-year-old filly was found butchered in a Hiaheah pasture on July 22.
The BLM Montana will hold a public hearing July 31 to address the use of motor vehicles in managing wild horses.
Codeine, oripavine, and morphine were found in samples from three jumping horses.
A 14-year-old palomino stallion was killed with a small caliber gun. Investigators are searching for those responsible.
The BLM said the wild horses are residing largely on private lands outside the herd management area boundary.
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