HORSES

BLM approves plan to remove wild horses from outside established area
The Bureau of Land Management today announced a final decision to remove up to 100 wild horses this fall from private land and other areas outside the designated Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area  in northwestern Colorado.
The decision will also allow future gathers to remove wild horses that stray from the 300-square-mile Piceance-East Douglas HMA designated for their management.
“The BLM is committed to maintaining a healthy wild horse population on healthy rangelands in the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area,” said BLM White River Field Manager Kent Walter. “Wild horses that stray from the established Herd Management Area need to be removed to reduce conflicts with other resources and private land under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.”
The BLM will primarily use a helicopter drive trap method to gather the horses from private lands in the Cathedral Creek area. If less than 100 wild horses are gathered from this area, the BLM may elect to gather horses from additional nearby areas outside the HMA.
The BLM currently estimates that there are 210 wild horses outside the HMA within the area covered by this decision, which includes about 773,000 acres in the White River Field Office east of Colorado Highway 139, south of Colorado Highway 64 and west of Colorado Highway 13. The decision area does not include the West Douglas Herd Area, which is west of Colorado Highway 139.
Wild horses removed through this gather will be taken to the Canon City holding facility and be made available for adoption or sale.
The decision record and environmental assessment are available at bit.ly/2rDXBi1 .

No matter how much I love "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" wire tapping horses legs to make them fall is wrong wrong wrong!!!!
Director George Roy Hill in a 1969 docu said "we went to Mexico" wire tapping horses was legal there.
Sure never ask how the horse felt....

One of my favourite films of all time is The Wind and the Lion but the horse falls in that film are dreadful to watch. The director and stunt coordinator claim that the horses were not mistreated but this is why the film is not available in the UK.

During the making of "Charge of the Light Brigade" with Errol Flynn, many horses were severely injured during filming forcing Hollywood to enact some animal safety rules...not sure how that had any effect, but at least it brought the problem to the publics attention...

I just love this picture, it has nothing to do with movies, I just love the pic

You don't think that dogs are exploited just as much as horses?  They were never generally used for transportation, but there are sled dogs.  We also use dogs for servitude (ex, they are trained to be police dogs; there are dogs in the military; there are seeing eye dogs; there are emotional comfort animal dogs, etc.)  Dogs are also widely used in movies and on tv and there safety is not always taken into consideration.  We also breed (and maybe overbreed) dogs for a variety of different reasons.