Linda & Family In Ruidoso At Niece's Weekend Home

[Dee]

This picture was taken about 25 minutes ago just outside their summer home.
Family is there for a long weekend.
I stayed behind because of the rough weather coming in to make sure ole Rufus is warm.
These are wild mustangs. Nuthin posed, the real deal.
They came in to a golf course.

[ironglow]

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  Rudioso looks like a nice place, at least what I could see on a Google 'down on the streets' tour..

  I have a couple nieces with their families , near Carson City Nevada.  Lots of wild horses there,  running through the backyards.
 ...Don't know why they are there, because from the photos, it  seems there is little grass or forage   

[Dee]

Mustangs were dropped off by the Spaniards in the 16th century, and have proved to everyone that they can scratch out a living just about anywhere.
Got a friend I policed with back 35 years ago that brakes mustangs for folks that want to adopt them.
When broke right, they're super dependable, and crazy capable.
Being on their own 400 years, only the best survived long enough to breed.

[ironglow]

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  No doubt, they are tough and subsist where other horses would be challenged.

[Dee]

We refer to'em as wild mustangs, but in truth, they are domestic horses that escaped the Spanish explorers, and are really just feral.

[oldandslow]

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  Rudioso looks like a nice place, at least what I could see on a Google 'down on the streets' tour..

  I have a couple nieces with their families , near Carson City Nevada.  Lots of wild horses there,  running through the backyards.
 ...Don't know why they are there, because from the photos, it  seems there is little grass or forage   

It is just another tourist town in the mountains although I enjoy a couple of short trip up there in the summer. Go before or after racing season and it isn't crowded and is bit cooler than down on the flats and you can actually find a parking space. The Inn Of The Mountain Gods cafe on the reservation has as good an omelet as I have ever enjoyed anywhere and the service is top notch.

There is a cell tower in town and is disguised as an evergreen tree. It sticks out like a sore thumb and I wonder just who the geniuses were that dreamed it up.

[Dee]

I haven't been to Ruidoso in decades. Was gonna go this time, but this blue norther changed my mind.
Linda ain't impressed, and is ready to come home.

[Buckskin]

Those things should be shot on site until population is under control.  Thanks to the liberals we are feeding and holding almost 70,000 horses and burros costing about $50 million per year.

They are basically just a very large invasive varmint...

[Dee]

Can't disagree. They have learned to survive, and have no fault of their own, become a financial drag on the cow industry, and the government taxpayer dollar.

[Mule 11]

I like the idea of wild mustangs. Butt. They don’t live in my backyard.

[Dee]

Buckskin is right. Liberal animal rights advocates have made the mustang issue into a real problem.
BLM (Bureau of Land Management) controls grazing on government lands, and the horses are over grazing it, which hurts the cattle industry.

[phalanx]

I have a first cousin who lives up in Alto. A wee bit N.of Ruidoso.  She gets them there also.

[phalanx]

Have you ever eaten horse meat?

[Dee]

Nope, and don't have any plans to try it.

[phalanx]

I only found that out while eating Mexican food in Mexico. Some mustangs are killed and slaughtered here in the US.
And the meat is shipped down to Mexico. As far as the food I wouldn’t have known the difference if I wasn’t told that’s what it is. But Americans have a love for horses.

[phalanx]

In Asia they eat dogs, cats and monkeys. Bugs also. I’ve never been to Asia but that’s what some vets who have been there told me. Now that’s disgusting.

[Mule 11]

They also eat Horse meat in Asia. Dogs eat a lot of horse meat or did.

[Dee]

I don't have a problem with ole Rufus eatin horse meat, but I ain't that hungry yet.

[Ranger99]

I don't have a problem with ole Rufus eatin horse meat, but I ain't that hungry yet.

^ ^ this ^ ^
My ancestors ate a few animals
that I wouldn't ordinarily, but if I got hungry
enough I would most likely be
digging in

Quite a few modern people throw
around talk of cannibalism ( mostly
the same people I hear talk of
justifying looting) but I'll have to
pass on munching down on my
fellow humans, no matter how
useless they were in life

[Buckskin]

Not sure what the difference would be in eating a horse or a deer.  Young ones tasty and tender, older ones need a low temp, slow cook.

[Dee]

If I got hungry enough, I'd probably eat the family dog. But at the moment, I ain't.

I heard somewhere a while back that the French eat horse meat. Don't know if it's true.

[pastorp]

I bought a mustang in NM. She was a beautiful strawberry roan, unbroken when I bought her. I made friends with her. Handled her a lot and slowly got her used to having a saddle and bridal on. Did everything but ride her. She would tolerate partial weight so I would walk beside her with my arm over the saddle putting light weight on her. She would a been old enough to to ride in about 6 more months, but alas the call to Alaska came and I sold her along with the other 4 horses we owned.

[phalanx]

It’s been researched and verified that cannibalism causes insanity over time.  Or other ailments like this one.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

[Mule 11]

It’s been researched and verified that cannibalism causes insanity over time.  Or other ailments like this one.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

Yeah. Butt. Eatin peoples makes ya crazy in a hurry!!!

[Buckskin]

It’s been researched and verified that cannibalism causes insanity over time.  Or other ailments like this one.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

That wasn't caused by eating people, it was caused by eating a brain affected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.  If they would have avoided that brain nobody would have been affected.  Same with mad cow or maybe CWD.

[ironglow]

    .
  The french do have a strong appetite for horse meat..it is said to be like beef, but sweeter.
 There are abbattoirs (slaugter houses) dedicated to horses.

    Where US troops had canned meat called SPAM during WW2, the British troops often had canned horse meat ...which they called "bully beef'"!

   Here inthe US, they used to harvest wild horses for dog food...but the lefties and animal rightsers..launched a campaign which stopped the practice.

  Personally, I think they should be "managed", same as moose, deer, coon and grizzly bears..

  BTW: Once again, President Trump tried to bring common sense to bear...to both save and gain the country some money...

   ...But that of course, was introduced to congress...where great ideas go to die !

  https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/horse-meat/529665/

   Article indicates that both Mexicans and Canadians butcher horses... 

[Dee]

I remember in my part of the country cull horses went to the packing plant. I don't see a problem with cull horses going into dog food.

[Ranger99]

Yep ^ ^ ^
They're just an animal.
It's not like they butchered a kid

[ulav8r]

My dad believed he was fed horse meat while he was in the army but I don't remember at what point that was.  It has been more than 50 years since he discussed it.