Friday, May 01, 2009

BLM to Offer Cash Incentives for Wild Horse Adoptions

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hoping cash incentives will boost adoptions of wild horses and burros that would otherwise spend their lives in long-term holding facilities. Under a pilot program slated to debut at an adoption event in Kellyville, Okla., next month, the agency will pay $500 to qualified individuals who adopt BLM mustangs or burros that are four years old or older. Payments are intended to offset animal maintenance costs for one year. But adoptive owners will not receive stipends up front--BLM policy requires the agency to retain the title to adopted animals for one year. Agency inspectors currently visit adoptive homes to ensure the animals are receiving proper care, and animals adopted under the incentive program will be subject to mandatory inspections. "We want to make sure adopters don't use the program for profit," said BLM spokesman Paul McGuire. "The BLM will turn over the $500 when it transfers the title at the end of the year."...The Horse

Forty dollars a month to maintain a cayuse and turn a profit? What a laugh. BLM will spend more than $500 per animal to conduct the inspection.

1 comment:

dr john said...

When are those horse kissers like those who read the Horse magazine and Kim, the editor, herself, admit that enough is enough. This goofyness has to stop. Why don't we start hauling those horses to the Washington mall since the ccongressmen and women are enthralled with them.