EX URGENT:PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY FOR HORSES! HUMANElines Issue 297

May 20, 2004

Please contact the Army by this Thursday, May 20. Contact info. is below (email address.)

"Linda Furness"

<linda.furness1 @ btopenworld.com> (remove 2 spaces)

HUMANElines

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:43 PM

Fw: URGENT - PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY HUMANElines Issue 297<http://www.hsus.org/web-files/hdr_humanelines.gif>http://www.hsus.org/web-files/header_horses.gif>Issue 297 --- May 18th, 2004A Project of The Humane Society of the United States and The Fund forAnimals http://www.humanelines.org/

<http://www.hsus.org/web-files/hr9.gif> __ SEND AN EMAIL IMMEDIATELY FOR THE HORSES: Hundreds of wild horses in Louisiana> '> s Kisatchie National Forest are in danger of being exterminated by the U.S. Army, at the behest of one, anti-animal Louisiana politician. The wild horses have freely roamed in the Kisatchie National Forest, parts of which are used by the Army for training exercises and weapons firing. Although the horses have never interfered with these military exercises, Bob Odom, Commissioner of the Louisiana Departmentof Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF), has asked the Army to kill them off anyway or at a minimum, round them up and sell them. Odom has a long record of anti-animal

sentiments, having publicly supported cockfighting and the development of canned hunt operations in his state.Now Odom is capitalizing on hysteria and misinformation about Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) to launch his latest assault on the Kisatchie wild horses. Although EIA is a serious disease in horses, its potential for transmission is extremely low in any case, and especially here where thewild horses are not in close contact with privately-owned horses. Even the USDA> 's chief equine veterinarian Dr. Tim Cordes has called EIA a disease of low transmissibility that requires a lot of exposure between animals to be transmitted. And a test conducted a few years ago of six capturedKitsachie horses showed that none of them were EIA-positive. WHAT YOU CAN DO: Please contact the Army by this Thursday, May 20, and ask them to allow the Kisatchie wild horses to roam free. Time is short, so please send your

quickemails today.1. Send an email to Dan Nance, Fort Polk Public Affairs OfficeEmail: horses @ polk.army.mil (remove 2 spaces)

<horses(Put > "> Kisatchie Free-Roaming Horses Environmental Assessment> "> inthe subject line.) 2. Please cc your emails to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco by going to: <http://gov.louisiana.gov/govemail.asp>

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