BLM abuse of wild horses.

Read an article on just how much abuse the BLM will inflict and/or allow to be inflicted upon the wild horses and burros. I would hope that horse owners would copy this email and send a personal note to:

I sent certain BLM staff members in Reno, Wash. D.C. directly to their emails, an email that should provide them with a wake up call: alueders@blm.gov d80arnol@blm.gov mmirati@blm.gov ashepher@blm.gov Director@blm.gov Mike_Pool@blm.gov nkornze@blm.gov

574.050. Definitions. As used in NRS 574.050 to 574.200, inclusive: 1. "Animal" does not include the human race, but includes every other living creature. 3. "Torture" or "cruelty" includes every act, omission or neglect, whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering or death is caused or permitted.574.100. Overdriving, torturing, injuring or abandoning animals; failure to provide proper sustenance; penalty. 1. A person shall not: (a) Overdrive, overload, torture, cruelly beat or unjustifiably injure, maim, mutilate or kill an animal, whether belonging to himself or to another; (c) Cause, procure or allow an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or killed, or to be deprived of necessary food or drink; (d) Instigate, engage in, or in any way further an act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty; or

Each member of the overseeing BLM organization of the roundup of horses and burros is covered under these Nevada State laws. So to are the contractors providing the BLM with roundup, holding, training and adoptions of wild horses and burros.

2004 Washington State Supreme Court held in 118 Wn. App. 730, State v. Zawistowski, that Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1621 (1969) definition of "pain" as "a state of physical or mental lack of well-being or physical or mental uneasiness that ranges from mild discomfort or dull distress to acute often unbearable agony."

The above Washington State Supreme Court ruling does give all other States and the Federal government a legal definition of horse abuse. Therefore, be informed that BLM's statement "We found this wrong, but we did nothing wrong" is a fraudulent statement.