Who thinks the wild horses of corova North Carolina Should Stay There?

Question

I Live in a oceanfront house in corova and i LOVE the wild horses and my next door neighbors Think the wild horses are a PAIN IN THE NECK!! i hated them from that day to today for saying that i wake up in the moring the horses are right in our front yard they have every right to be there! During the school year on the the last day I Herd my teacher talking to another tecaher saying " Ya now callie is pretty rough for a 11 year old girl about the horses!" And I think that the horses have EVERY SINGLE RIGHT TO BE IN COROVA!!! The Wild life people dont! i even wrote a note in to them! I cryed for 3 days when i saw a horse dead! In the Corolla Wild horse fund i am a member i cant remeber how much it was but i hope to work with the horses when i grow up i CARE SO DEEPLY ABOUT THEM!! we had one born under our house we named it kingsford because it was born next to the kingsford cole bag!

Answer 1

I think this is a question that involves a lot of factors.  Have the Wild life people studied the impact or are they just using their opinion without investigating?  How long have the horses been there?  Are they a danger--for example, do they get on the roads and cause traffic accidents?  Do they have food and water and everything they need?

You must find out all the facts, but it is good that you care.  Perhaps you can be a voice for the horses just like the people who put a stop to the wild horses of the western United States being rounded up and made into dog food.

Please remember that all life dies-the dead horse may have been old or injured or may have eaten something poisonous.  Are the other horses healthy?  If they are not healthy, then it isn't right to let them live and suffer unnecessarily.

Also, all animals have a population limit.  Without predators or other means of population control, they become too numerous and then will starve, suffer disease and destroy the environment.  A horse needs something like 10 acres of grass to graze.  EACH.  So the number must be limited.  Some places use birth control, and some places round up and sell extra animals.  Whatever works to keep them from overpopulating the area.

I love horses and would love to see some running wild.  I've only seen that on TV.  So I hope it works out that your area can keep some wild horses!  But only if it is good.

And if people hate them in their yard, can't they just put up a fence?  If the horses were there FIRST, then I agree with you that they have the right to be there.  If people built houses on the land knowing there were wild horses there then they ought to accept it and just get used to them!  (or move away!)

Live well and do good.