Global News - May 2008
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Fears mount that horses are being abandoned by owners in the US
Wed 14 May 2008 14:00 UK — North America,Domestic Animals
Authorities in the US are increasingly concerned that rising hay and grain prices are forcing people to leave their horses in the wild.
Reuters reported that there is a growing concern that people in the west of the US are disposing of unwanted horses buy releasing them into the wild.
It explained that rising food and transport costs meant that horses have become far more expensive to keep and that older animals are proving very hard to sell in the current economic situation.
"What concerns me is a fate worse than slaughter," Professor Temple Grandin of Colorado State University explained to the news agency.
"We've got people turning horses loose in fields, dropping horses off in the night - my worst nightmares are coming true."
Kirk Miller, a livestock investigator in Idaho and Montana for the US department of agriculture, explained that horses were not likely to survive in the wild.
"They have no survival instinct in the wild, no clue as to what's dangerous to eat, no knowledge of how to grub for food under the snow," he told Reuters.
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