Matt Would Like to Thank You for Saving His Life

Curly and Matt Heal, Find New Homes

Your support of IDA’s Project Hope Sanctuary made this possible

On April 10, 2009, IDA’s Project Hope Sanctuary in Mississippi received an urgent plea from the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department. The department needed immediate shelter for 4 horses they were seizing at that moment.

Three of the horses were severely emaciated. When deputies questioned the horses’ “owner” – he certainly was not a “guardian” by any stretch of the word – the deputies learned that the 4th horse was in better condition only because he was purchased only 2 weeks prior to the seizure. While his three horses were starving, he bought a new horse to ride. He claimed he was caring well for the horses by mowing his property to feed them.

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Tags: Animal rights, Animal welfare, Equine Protection, Horse Care, IDA, In Defense of Animals, Project Hope

Three Simple Actions You Can Take Right Now to Help Wild Horses

On March 3, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the U.S. Department of Interior‘s budget request for Fiscal Year 2011. Included is an increase of $12 million for the controversial Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro program, and $42.5 million to purchase the first of several holding pastures in the Midwest or East to house wild horses taken from the West.

This begins Congress’ budgeting process. Now is the time for you to tell the Senate that business as usual at BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program can not continue. Click here to take action. And please click here to submit comments on the Twin Peaks, California roundup. The BLM intends to capture 1,980 horses and burros in that Twin Peaks roundup. Finally, click here to see how else you can help wild horses.

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Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Equine Protection, Horse Care, IDA, In Defense of Animals, Mustangs, United States Department of the Interior, Wild Horse and Burro Program, wild horses

They Named Him FREEDOM

It lasted only minutes, but his life changed forever. His ordeal was horrific but he had no choice, he was motivated to risk everything in his escape to freedom. Freedom’s story needs to be told, so we don’t forget what it means to be FREE!

In January, Freedom and his family were among hundreds of America’s wild horses mercilessly chased by helicopters over dangerous terrain toward capture pens, where uncertain futures and sometimes death awaited them.

Most were terrorized – frozen with fear.

But Freedom fought back!

With dramatic determination, he regained his freedom by jumping a 6-foot fence, then breaking through barbed wire, as it painfully tore his flesh, in his successful effort to regain his liberty.

Today, IDA is fighting for all the wild horses who are threatened by man’s inhumanity. And we need your help! Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=10353

Tags: Equine Protection, Horse Care, IDA, Mustangs, wild horses

Another BLM Wild Horse Roundup: Submit Comments Today!

Comments Must Be Received by Jan. 27

Removal of 550 horses in eastern Nevada set to begin next month

Just When We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse – Government Claims More Than 670,000 Acres Can Only Support 100 to 200 Horses

Dear IDA Members:

We told you this was going to be a long, hard fight – thank you for sticking with us to take action on each and every unacceptable assault by the Obama Administration on our wild horses. We are up against the deeply entrenched special interests who want wild horses removed from public lands so they can conduct business as usual. That means cheap usage of our public land for their private profits at the horses’ and taxpayers’ expense.

It’s time to get public comments in on another large removal of wild horses which is planned by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This time the BLM intends to remove over 500 of the estimated 645 horses living in or near the “Eagle Herd Management Area” in eastern Nevada outside of Ely. While 500 individuals is fewer than the 2,500 horses currently being rounded up and removed from the Calico Complex in northwest Nevada (click here for Calico update), the Eagle roundup is even more ludicrous because it is 125,000 acres larger than Calico, but the government will only allow 100 horses to remain! In Calico, by contrast, 500-900 horses will be left behind in the approximately 500,000-acre public land complex. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9858

Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Equine Protection, IDA, Mustangs, wild horses