Nature

08/19/2008 :: 02:26:54 AM
Mercedes Says:

Thank you for the work you do. I finally have a computer again and am thrilled to be able to have access to this wonderful site. These creatures are so magnificent and I will be researching as much as I can to inform myself and others as to what we can do to help. I’m so very surprised that there aren’t any other comments - I expected to find a more passionate response

08/21/2008 :: 01:09:26 PM
Karen L. Says:

There are more comments under some of the other “pages”. Many of us have engaged in a fevered, passionate letter writing campaign beginning in July of this year. Specific guidelines concerning content and recipients of these letters can be found at The Cloud Foundation site. Ginger updates the site as needed. Spread the word!

09/07/2008 :: 06:03:15 PM
Jennifer Says:

Go to http://www.goodsearch.com and scroll down to the bottom of the page, and go to the box that says where you can type in a charity/group, and in the box: The Cloud Foundation.

When you search, that organization will donate money to that group/foundation.

09/10/2008 :: 07:42:37 PM
Shilo Says:

http://www.phoenixfilmfestival.com/images/features/spanishMustangs.jpg

09/30/2008 :: 06:55:57 PM
Ray Huntsman Says:

I appreciate your passion, but you have it all wrong. If you are so concerned about the excess horses, why don’t you fit the bill to feed them–they don’t come without a price.

As a wildlife biologist who has seen horrendous environmental damage due to wild horses, I don’t share your passion.

You people are extreme in your beliefs, but it’s time to be logical. These animals are feral, not native, and in no way are they in danger of extinction like you folks are suggesting.

I can appreciate the beauty of wild horses. I like to see horses when they are kept in check. But to see excess numbers that have destroyed native habitats by over-population makes me sick. In some areas of the west where horses dominate, you are hard pressed to find native wildlife. Mustangs guard the water from all native species. Who loses? The native wildlife and the public.

It’s bogus what you are claiming. I don’t like to see animals go to waste any more than you do, but get real. There is a problem and it’s not due entirely to the BLM. Besides, I can think of a few good uses for excess horses: glue, dog-food, french cuisine . . .

I know this won’t be posted, but I just wish you weren’t so extreme that you couldn’t listen to reason.

Again, if you are so concerned, then you guys fit the bill. It’s a damn shame that we spend 24 million dollars a year on these varmints. What about the starving children? 30,000 excess horses could go a long way to curb world hunger.

Have a good day wasting your time while we go to hell in a hand-basket.

10/10/2008 :: 02:20:10 PM
nancy12 Says:

this is sooooooooooo awsomw

10/20/2008 :: 09:38:54 PM
lindsay Says:

I am very supportive of keeping wild horses in the wild. It’s an important lesson for all of us. And let’s be clear with ourselves: Humans are the ones over populating the earth. Not horses. If there weren’t so many humans, there wouldn’t be so many starving children. The problems are created by ourselves. And nature is going to be here whether we like it or not. I appreciate these animals, and wish to see them live freely.

11/29/2008 :: 06:33:17 PM
Bonnie ("~) Says:

Hi,
I thought it would be all the buzz in this wite, but I couldn’t find it.
I heard some good news about wild horses. “Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, made known her intentions to adopt not just the doomed wild horses but most or all of the 30,000 horses and burros kept in federal holding pens. ” I first heard about it on World News on TV and wanted to know more. I guess Bush took away a bunch of the land that the horses were on and 2,000 horses were about to be put down.
She wants to get about 1 million acres (larger than the state of RI!) for the horses.
“I see it as an eco-vacation spot,” Pickens said. “Could you imagine taking your kids there, staying on the range in log cabins or tepees? I love the idea of sharing it with the American people.”
To read more click here: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11017788

12/01/2008 :: 11:40:11 PM
Anne Riegel Says:

Hi! What timing! I saw a special on the wild horses last night on history channel and discovered in reading your series. I have raised horses thru my twenties and now that children are gone and due to a back disability have had to turn to showing training and raising Labrador Retrievers. That too became too commercial and so not to add to the problem I only have two of my first pair of bred champions and a 2 yr old I adopted to train as a sevice companion dog. I am suprisingly getting better and all of the timing makes me think. If I had a horse it would def be a rescued mustang. Hopefully a mare in foal or a yearling wanting to raise it before it gets too big and powerful. I would have to board it but I cannot believe that the govt wants to shoot them. I have a friend celebrity who may be willing to help. In the opening shot of his movie, Billy Jack wild horses are herded into a corral to be shot for horse meat sale. It happens on a reservation and the character Billy Jack stops it. The actor Tom Laughlin I am sure and his wife would be interested to know all this and help. Please contact him at “WWW.Billyjack.com” Tell him Anne in Columbus Ohio told you to contact him. Just the opening shot of his film with him in front of it saying it was just a movie but now you he needs peoples help. I have worked in local TV for years and would be happy to contact any way I can I am of on disability and have nothing but free time on my hands now and am also a computer geek. So please let me know what I can do to help and please get in contact with Tom. I will call tomorrow to alert him. Anne Riegel

03/13/2009 :: 01:03:57 AM
Miranda Says:

Ray,you’re the exact problem. The world does not belong to us, and it does not belong to the horses. It belongs to every creature and NO ONE should be deciding the fate of these horses but nature itself. Capturing and slaughtering these animals is not the answer, and yet you seem to be monster promoting it. Get real. Get a life. Go continue hunting your precious animals.

05/07/2009 :: 07:25:05 PM
jerica Says:

i loveclod

06/19/2009 :: 06:58:16 PM
roxy Says:

Cloud and the mustang issue is so important and so complex. Jerica, I love Cloud too! I just found the Cloud shows on-line, wish I had found them earlier. Waiting for the 3rd installment - I wish there would be another show every year! I have the first 2 almost memorized - can’t get enough! I’m telling everyone to watch it!

I am 62 years old. I met my wild horse “Topper” when I was in the first grade. My uncle was a rancher hired to round-up wild horses (due to overpopulation, and probably to help out the cattle ranchers - they “broke” as many as they could, sold some, kept some, some went to rodeo, I’m sure the rest went to slaughter). My little mustang’s mother had died and my uncle found them under a tree - no herd around. Topper would have surely died had my uncle not been out there to find him. My uncle nursed him and brought him to my grandparent’s farm - he was so little! He lived a wonderful life, though not free to roam the mountains. Everyone loved him! Especially the neighboring breeders of purebreds. They were over playing with him all the time until he died a ripe old age - what a personality he had!

Ray is not wrong (except in his crassness along with some other bloggers - its easy when your not face to face - everyone, please stop the name calling). And Miranda you are right too - about “every” creature.

The folks at the BLM are just doing their jobs regulating, and in their hearts I am sure they believe they are doing the good and right thing. Cattle ranching too is just a job and is here to stay, as is breeding purebred horses (how many of those are in animal rescue or put down by animal control? Check that out for yourself!) – but can be driven by greed and profit with no balance in mind, unless regulated.

As much as my heart wants to believe otherwise, I do know that nature does NOT always successfully regulate introduced species - introduced by humans. So humans (we are the intelligent and capable species right?) have a responsibility to protect these mustangs, and to regulate them, because they do impact other living wild creatures, the land and the environment, and even cattle ranching. The issue is how humane can we be, how fair can we be, how fiscally responsible can we be, how can we balance it all out? Very complex.

06/20/2009 :: 12:44:40 AM
roxy Says:

Wrote a blog earlier today - after doing what I said to do and researched some more - Ray you are WRONG!
Stop this madness. Sign the petition to save all the wild horses.

Sadly over the last 55 years greed has become so socially acceptable that all else is swept away, and certainly the wild horse population has paid a much too high price.

These horses are OUR LEGACY as human beings. Join the Cloud Foundation today!