Happymaking news

This is old news, from November, but new to me. Many wild horses and burros have been in danger of being euthanized because the Bureau of Land Management says they don't have the resources to manage the horses. (For some reason they have the right to dispose of animals older than ten without any of the protection that the rest of these fantastic animals have, which is really weird to me as horses only improve past the age of ten. If you're looking for a steady mount for a child or a beginner you want a horse that has matured and is no longer flighty and silly. I personally have had wonderful experiences with horses in their mid teens and older, but I digress.)

Good news from the articles:

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. Lifelong animal lovers, the Pickenses just a few years ago led the fight to close the last horse slaughterhouse in the United States.

Madeleine Pickens is looking for land in the West that would be an appropriate home for the horses.

It takes a pretty special person to adopt that many equines. How fantastic for the horses and burros that have been living in pens after running wild all their lives. Some of them are left in the pens for years. Just think how they'll feel when they go back to what they know and love. Bravo!