http://appaloosablogspot.com/2008/09/23/getting-involved-in-the-2008-elections/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:31:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://appaloosablogspot.com/2008/09/23/getting-involved-in-the-2008-elections/#comment-42472 Terri Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:01:21 +0000 http://appaloosablogspot.com/?p=1044#comment-42472 Support HR 6598 especially if you believe the credo of this organization to preserve the breed. Too many over breeders are bringing foals to this world only to dump them at the yearling stage at the auctions nationwide so that they can end up at the slaughter houses. No matter where they are slaughtered, it is a brutal end for a horse and pure lack of responsibility of the owner/breeder to use the most convenient means of disposing of the very horse that they claim to promote. As for artificial insemination, please don't follow the AQHA's coarse and use those means. The quarter horse has the highest number of animals slaughtered! Don't own irresponsibly or breed indiscriminately. That's what the bill is trying to overcome. Economics and supply and demand drive the prices, not the kill buyers or auction houses. Support HR 6598 especially if you believe the credo of this organization to preserve the breed. Too many over breeders are bringing foals to this world only to dump them at the yearling stage at the auctions nationwide so that they can end up at the slaughter houses. No matter where they are slaughtered, it is a brutal end for a horse and pure lack of responsibility of the owner/breeder to use the most convenient means of disposing of the very horse that they claim to promote. As for artificial insemination, please don’t follow the AQHA’s coarse and use those means. The quarter horse has the highest number of animals slaughtered! Don’t own irresponsibly or breed indiscriminately. That’s what the bill is trying to overcome. Economics and supply and demand drive the prices, not the kill buyers or auction houses.

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