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This problem with the horses is not unique to Kentucky. Feral horses live in many western states. The BLM will have roundups and try to auction off the horses. Due to many factors, the demand for these horses has dropped off. Is there a solution that won't offend anyone? Perhaps instead of rounding up and selling the animals, they could round them up and geld the stallions and put a long term birth control device/pill in the mares. Over time, the population would drop off. But, this would require federal dollars.
Some of these animals could possibly be donated to Native American communities. Some cultures still value horses.
The government is suppose to control the population of these horses but they do not. People who pay for grazing permits on these lands are ticked off cause the government does not control them would be my guess.
The horses were ferals that had been running loose and multiplying for years. Who knows? Maybe local land owners got tired of their own horses being bothered and attacked by the stallions (which existed as there were foals and pregnant horses that were killed) or their property being damaged by the horses trampling across it. If the authorities refused to do anything about the situation, local citizens may have decided to take matters into their own hands on this and get rid of the horses themselves. As they were ferals they had no owners and nobody is out money by shooting them. Better course of action would have been for the horses to have been rounded up years ago and removed from the area.




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