URGENT... PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE.. BLM, Bureau of Land Management has gone rogue.. they have recommended mass slaughter of 45,000 of our Wild Horses, (Mustangs) including Burro's... they seem to want to definitely start their own cull.. Many of us signed the petition to stop the mass sterilization of all Wild Horses and Burro's and it worked... We also stopped the slaughter of 15,000 horses by BLM and we had more than 20,000 people that would rehome these horses.. It is now time to step up and out and sign and share this important petition... Please, Please sign and share...........

Photo | Don Cool September 14, 2016 Mass Killing of 45,000 Captured Wild Horses & Burros Recommended It's our worst nightmare. Last Friday, September 9, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board voted 7-1 to recommend the mass killing of up to 45,000 wild horses and burros in holding facilities. The recommendation was made just hours after the agency announced it was cancelling plans to conduct cruel sterilization experiments on wild mares, citing the lawsuit filed by AWHPC and The Cloud Foundation as the reason. Although at this time, the lethal option is just a recommendation, there is a real danger that the BLM and its allies will use it to attempt to overturn the Congressional ban on killing healthy horses and burros or selling them for slaughter. Now is the time to demonstrate massive public outrage at the prospect of the mass killing of 45,000 innocent wild horses and burros who once roamed free and are supposed to be protected by federal law.  Please Take a Stand Today!   BLM Advisory Board Votes to Recommend Mass Mustang Killing Despite receiving thousands of emails from citizens across the U.S. in support of humane management, the BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board last Friday voted in favor a resolution to kill or sell for slaughter up to 45,000 wild horses and burros who once roamed free but are now warehoused in government holding facilities. Only one member, Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, voted against the resolution. The Board's outrageous recommendation is completely out of step with the wishes of the American public, 80 percent of which opposes horse slaughter! It is the culmination of an orchestrated effort by the BLM to legalize slaughter as a solution to the problem it has created by refusing to utilize the long-available and scientifically-proven PZP birth control and failing to adequately reduce livestock grazing on drought stricken rangelands. Read all about the stomach-turning events of last week's Advisory Board meeting below.    This is barbaric action towards our legacy of horses and they will be judged on their actions regarding these mass murders of our WILD HORSES AND BURRO'S...    WE HOLD THE KEYS AND WE ARE THE LOUDEST VOICES TO BE HEARD WE WILL SAVE AND PROTECT...

Breaking News!!!! PETA has released photos, videos and attached a petition for everyone to sign and share. These photos are from a Rescue Shelter just outside Polk, Florida. The video, and photos are very heart wrenching and for many of us who work at rescues, can attest to such atrocities, happening in some of our no-kill shelter rescues. This cruelty, neglect and barbaric actions towards animals should be a felony with years of imprisonment against the peoples owning these rescues. Collecting monies for themselves and never applying the monies to the animals in the shelter for food, vet care or proper housing should definitely mean prison time. I do hope everyone signs this petition, as many of the animals here that were rescued, received emergency care, still did not have the life spirit to continue to live. Please sign and share this petition with all your friends, we need to have a say and have a part in what happens down in Polk, Florida. Please take the time to review the last couple of paragraphs they are very important for those who donate to No Kill Rescue Shelters. Mahalo nui loa

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Pigs Starved, Mutilated, and Left to Die at Darlynn's Darlins 'Rescue'

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lmost every day, PETA receives reports about “rescue” and “sanctuary” operations that claim to “save” animals from euthanasia but instead severely neglect them—sometimes to death. Over and over, PETA has exposed cases in which sham rescues, like Caboodle Ranch and Angel’s Gate, prey on well-meaning people who have never actually visited the facility and have no idea what they’re funding.

Now, PETA has documented that at Darlynn’s Darlins Rescue Ranch, Inc. (DDRR), outside Polk City, Florida, pigs weren’t given anything to eat for up to five days at a time, and then, when they were, it was often nothing but rotten scraps of produce and moldy bread. Sick, injured, and dying animals were denied veterinary care. Malnourished dogs kept confined to kennels outdoors were deprived of water as temperatures approached 100 degrees. And the list goes on.

Based on PETA’s evidence of systemic neglect and unnecessary suffering at the facility, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) executed a warrant on August 4, 2016, and seized nearly 200 animals, rescuing them from utter misery. On August 9, 2016, officials charged DDRR operators Darlynn Czerner and Clinton Martin with a total of 282 counts of cruelty to animals, including six felonies.

Spunky and Buddy

Spunky was emaciated, covered with sores, and unable to use his back legs. He was left languishing like that for months on end. When the largest of several lesions on his back grew to the size of an orange and became abscessed, Czerner and Martin spent an hour cutting into it and squeezing pus and blood out of it without any anesthetics, while he screamed and struggled to escape.

In the weeks that followed, Czerner squeezed the abscess again and again, tearing large swaths of skin off Spunky’s back and admitting ashe screamed that “of course” it caused him pain.

Spunky spent several days penned up with Buddy, a listless, emaciated pig Czerner said she would take to the vet in early June. But time passed, and she didn’t do it. Buddy was left lying on his side—just standing up was a struggle for him. According to Martin, after suffering for “over two weeks,” Buddy was found dead. Spunky was by Buddy’s side on the last day of his miserable life.

One DDRR operator said that she would take Buddy, this listless, thin pig, for licensed veterinary care. But she didn't, and he was left to die.

According to another DDRR operator, Buddy had suffered ''over two weeks'' before dying in this pen.

Spunky, an emaciated, paralyzed pig with lesions covering his back, was found beside Buddy's remains in a pen one day.

DDRR's operators spent an hour squeezing pus from an abscess on Spunky's back, causing him to scream and struggle to escape.

Starved Pigs Deprived of Basic Care

Martin routinely denied pigs feed for up to five days (even though it took just 30 minutes or so to feed them) and rejected numerous offers to help feed the animals. When they were finally fed, some got scraps of produce—much of it rotten—or bread that was often moldy. But they were denied hay and only rarely given pellet feed.

When food was provided, smaller, less assertive pigs couldn’t access it, as larger pigs dominated the few troughs available. The vertebrae, hips, and other bones protruded prominently under the skin of numerous emaciated pigs.

Even though some pigs’ hooves curled up and others’ tusks rubbed against their faces because they were so overgrown, no hoof or dental care—which are important to pigs’ health—was provided during PETA’s investigation.

With such a nutritionally deficient diet and lack of basic care, they didn’t stand a chance.

Many pigs at DDRR, like this one, were emaciated or very thin. The facility's operators often failed to feed the pigs for up to five days.

Emaciated pigs' vertebrae, hips, and other bones jutted out from under their skin. They were never provided with hay and were only rarely given pelleted feed.

When they were finally fed, they often got rotten scraps of produce and/or moldy bread. They had to compete with one another to access the troughs to eat.

Some pigs were found without any water, while others had water that had algae and even dead toads floating on it.

Pigs' hooves were severely overgrown and curled upward.

Hoof care is critical to pigs' health, but no such care was seen during PETA's investigation.

Other pigs' overgrown canine teeth rubbed against their faces, but they were provided with no dental care.

An Emaciated Steer, Desperately Thirsty Chickens and Dogs, and Dying Cats

As heat indices topped 100 degrees in the Florida summer, Isis, the couple’s emaciated steer, was repeatedly found without water. He often had little to eat besides a few wisps of hay on the ground, despite requests by a PETA eyewitness to give him more food.

Approximately 40 hens and roosters were found without water again and again. When water was provided by a PETA eyewitness, the chickens routinely drank for nearly 10 minutes.

Thin dogs were repeatedly found without water and drank voraciously whenever it was provided. After a dogfight occurred on the property, Martin offered to shoot the dog whose leg was injured and bleeding. No veterinary care was provided.

After a lethargic and unresponsive cat named Princess convulsed and died, Czerner admitted that she had so many animals, she was simply unable to care for them all. (She also kept several pigs in her bathroom and in a crate in her house.) She even admitted that she feared being jailed for neglect.

You Can Help Stop This Cruelty!

The Office of the State Attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit has joined the PCSO in taking swift, strong action in this case. Please thank State Attorney Jerry Hill for his support of the PCSO’s efforts and let him know that you strongly support his office’s action and criminal prosecution of this case.

Make sure you aren’t funding or backing a “slow-kill” nightmare for animals. Instead, support professionally run, open-admission shelters that provide animals with veterinary care and, when necessary, a painless and dignified end, instead of hoarding them and letting them suffer until they die on their own, in misery.

Thank you for taking action to help animals—now take the next step! PETA's Investigations & Rescue Fund supports our work to expose cruelty and help abused and neglected animals. By making a gift today, you'll immediately be powering critical eyewitness investigations and exposés that are changing lives and sparing countless animals a lifetime of suffering.