Utah Horse Escapes Helicopter Roundup

Utah's Swasey wild horse roundup is over, but with lasting consequences. AWHC's Tandin Chapman was able to document the moment a mare is separated from her family after she manages to escape.
She lingers at top of a hill, looking back at the trap site where her family is held, for a long time. We can only guess at what's going through her mind: Is she waiting for them to join her? Absorbing the weight of her situation? Is she feeling confusion? Hope? Fear? Heartbreak? Exhaustion? Shock?
That morning she had greeted the new day with her family, unaware that in just a few hours she would be leaving the site of their capture, alone.

[@mpfractal3138]

I'm glad that they are free but I'm totally tearing up as it looks back to its family, which it will never see again. So heartbreaking.

[@sylviareyes7622]

💔💔💔

[@donhansen5677]

It's almost like this horse doesn't want to be turned into glue or eaten by Japan.

[@Blue-mc6rg]

It looks like the Pinto Mustang that escaped is a mare. Probably the mother of the foal. No wonder she kept looking back. Her family and her foal just got captured.

[@birgittavanblitterswijk6998]

Bah! Can't look at it, let them live free and wild. We humans are with to many, not them.

[@gregfoster3620]

are they dogged (butchered) or retrained ? similar situation here in Australia some brumbies retrained to saddle but majority or killed, very sad

[@mondopinion3777]

Old time cowboys used to call such horses, and likewise cattle, "bunch quitters." Nature allows some individuals to survive by abandoning the herd -- the herd which under most circumstances gives them "safety in numbers" with predators. Now that horse must face the wolves alone.

[@gnostic268]

So terrible. Dismantle the BLM and get a competent Secretary of the Interior