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View Poll Results: How much would you give up to save wild horses | |||
$0 | 15 | 71.43% | |
Sierra Club annual dues | 0 | 0% | |
$100 | 3 | 14.29% | |
$1,000 | 0 | 0% | |
$10,000 | 0 | 0% | |
$100,000 | 0 | 0% | |
I'd give up my job. | 0 | 0% | |
My business could be destroyed. | 0 | 0% | |
Foreclose on my ranch. | 1 | 4.76% | |
Totally wipe me out financially. | 2 | 9.52% | |
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07-09-2008, 11:31 PM | #61 |
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And even so, you are willing to be wiped out financially to save a wild horse. How noble.
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07-09-2008, 11:35 PM | #62 |
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I once owned and rode a wild horse, a mustang saved from the glue factory. It was a terrible horse, with a terrible gait. There was really no reason to save it.
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07-09-2008, 11:36 PM | #63 |
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07-09-2008, 11:42 PM | #64 |
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We notice you offered to your ranch you don't own be foreclosed upon.
Back in the day before you can remember, every Northern Nevada child heard the stories of the bad men who hunted the wild mustangs by Wild Horse Annie. She had a partially paralyzed face and was friends with our local Congressman, who knew our family well. All students wrote longingly to save these majestic animals, which roamed and wrecked the land. For those who despise the cattle, I wonder how they feel about mustangs. Google Wild Horse Annie to see if she is still noted. Anybody pining for these animals has never spent time around them. Now some people will try to domesticate them because they're too cheap to buy real horses, but that's another matter.
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07-09-2008, 11:44 PM | #65 |
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I've watched a documentary, as a herd is followed from year to year. That's probably better than googling.
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http://www.ispmb.org/annie.shtml http://www.ispmb.org/annie_more.shtml I had forgotten some of the story. The blood stained pick up truck usually did it for us youngsters.
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07-09-2008, 11:48 PM | #67 |
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Let me guess: "Cloud, the White Stallion" on Nature/PBS? That was a good episode.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/shop/cloud.html
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07-10-2008, 12:07 AM | #69 | |
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Jeff -- I admitted in one of the first entries in this thread that my vote was a ruse b/c SU's poll was ridiculous and self-serving. I AGREE (for the 10th time) that mustangs are invasive and their population should be controlled. I'm not for wiping them out though, just like I'm not for the complete destruction of the cattle industry. My unifiying principle is an ecosystem in as much balance as possible in today's world. Trying to achieve that is even better for humans than it is for the animals, plants, or the land. And it's not just good for us physically, but primarilly spiritually.
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07-10-2008, 12:12 AM | #70 | |
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Really? According to whose notion of spirituality and whose notion of environmental balance?
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