Wild stallion from Mt. Charleston killed

[@brfgain]

There is nothing like sitting on your porch at nite and a small herd of horses run by. Incredible!

[@Sesaani]

This is an outrage. Fletcher was NOT an aggressive Horse. We who knew and loved he and the herd know the truth.

[@SuicidalH]

They mistook protective to aggressive. Cretins.

[@JonathanHallOverAllen]

Fletcher was murdered and it makes me angry. The person that killed that lovely animal should be arrested and locked up.

[@Sesaani]

I agree 100 percent.

[@CryMeARiver63]

Unfortunately that will never happen. If you knew the truth on the number of wild horses BLM kills you would be livid .

[@clintwestwood1895]

My God... it hurts my heart that people can so wantonly kill a beautiful, majestic life form.

[@anthonymartinez4307]

This state of “Nevada” has the worst possible behavior especially in their laws. Just look at this poor animal, not long ago someone shot a horse at wagon trail and here you have a person who thinks he can just go endangering wild life even though he chose to live there. Does he know mountain lions also live there? Squirrels?

[@mariashaffner7008]

We live up here in Mount Charleston and they came in our yard several times he was very aggressive but was only protecting his herd he should not have been put down that is so inhumane

[@trevorgwelch7412]

You live in a UFO hot spot . ✨🏔️✨👽🛸🇺🇸

[@mariashaffner7008]

What does that mean bro

[@anthonymartinez4307]

Are you saying a wild horse can’t be in his environment because some rich entitled bastard buys land that isn’t supposed to be sold and wonders why it’s called a forest. It’s fkn strange that people move to areas of wild animals and question what these animals ate doing there? What a corrupt state this is. They need to investigate this hole state and its law practices it’s starting to look like China type law.

[@mariashaffner7008]

@@anthonymartinez4307 I was told he was shot with gun no euthanized

[@JS-pz8yp]

@Maria Shaffner it is a unfortunate event. Assuming that the ranger knew where to put the bullet, glad the animal didn't have to suffer

[@enitahofstrom6027]

That is disgusting...there was no way this horse should be killed. People need to leave them alone they deserve to live and be left alone. Horrible.

[@mariashaffner7008]

This beautiful animal should been removed and put somewhere else if he was aggressive why would you put him down he was only protecting his herd I know because they came in our yard and he was aggressive when you went near the babies and the females she should not have been killed so inhumane shame on whoever did it

[@JS-pz8yp]

@Maria Shaffner People have trying to put them somewhere else that is more suitable with more natural resources for them to benefit. Unfortunately, the locals selfishly fight to satisfy their own emotional needs. Im sure most, if not all, have good intentions .

[@MummyMagicBristlecone]

Thanks for doing this story. Hope this never happens again. These horses are magical, I can attest

[@CryMeARiver63]

You hope this never happens again..... your talking about BLM .

[@MummyMagicBristlecone]

@@CryMeARiver63 yes it involves that particular authority, and such authority acted in relation in part to the behavior of the public and in part to policies that may need to be updated. In a nutshell, I hope we can all raise collective awareness of the importance of protecting all beings, especially these horses that add so much magic to the Spring Mountains.

[@JBench]

You know what happened! A California Karen or Ken complained. They have money and influence and the horse lost.

[@haroldkreye8770]

Ken and Karen should’ve stayed in California. They should be classified as a societal pollutant.

[@anthonymartinez4307]

The “ State of Nevada” is responsible they are on a roll with unconstitutional behavior one questions what their motive is. Remember they think Nevada is above congress.

[@rogerbrimner6836]

California? You sure about that?

[@jamesbench4216]

@@rogerbrimner6836 I'd bet 100bucks on it

[@snowflake2910]

@@jamesbench4216 I forget where but somewhere in California for like hundreds of miles you can't build because of a mouse. Lol.

[@wendy833]

Wild horses means they're wild. These same people are the ones who try to pet the animals at Glacier. A wild animal doesn't behave like a domestic pet.

[@yolandaneely6431]

What a beautiful horse!! It is his turf! Citizens invaded his territory!

[@JS-pz8yp]

People are also living and every bit a part of this planet as they are.

[@melissawarfield]

The only reason is someone was coming between Fletcher and his mare. Fletcher thought that you were trying to take his mare away. I'm shocked 😳! BLM is like the police officers. Shoot for no apparent reason or just take a the word from someone without checking the situation over first. Fletcher was loved. A lady wanted to adopt Fletcher. Horses are not a threat unless you make the first move towards them by threatening them. I've been around horses since age 3. I've never been threatened nor seen a horse threaten anyone. It's provoking by people who cause this. Why can't people who taunt and tease animals be put away forever? That's a legit question people.

[@es702rider]

Shows how much BLM really cares about its natural animals they claim to protect and governor

[@eddenoy321]

The police in Summerlin unjustly euthanized a mountain lion in suburb. This is their territory. They were here first.

[@Teriyaki_kitty]

I remember that story. They said they couldn’t trap him and had to euthanize so he wouldn’t come back. But they could’ve easily moved him somewhere else

[@repomannv]

Not to start a pointless internet argument, but mountain lions are apex predators, they do kill humans, and are highly unpredictable when around people especially small children - you cannot take any chances with them once they've entered a highly populated area like a neighborhood. Had the lion injured or killed a kid there would have been hell to pay. Horses are a completely different thing altogether, and BLM definitely way over-reacted here.

[@anthonymartinez4307]

Do you people see how communist this state has become even animals are at risk. People need to seriously start questioning these acts and change these unconstitutional laws that these careless individuals are putting forward. Pretty soon you are going to be banned for being a good human being.

[@armandocastillo5364]

@@repomannv who cares if they eat people you should run away not go up to it liek white people do

[@snowflake2910]

You seriously comparing a predator to a prey animal? You can't scare a prey animal off? When a human gets scared a gorilla gets shot. I bet you had an issue with Harambe being shot because a human invaded his home. A horse only knows how to be a horse he was having a family and protecting them from us which he apparently had every right to do.

[@canyon_horse]

Yeah, imagine a human was acting aggressive so you decided to kill them. Wouldn't work out, no? Shame on them.

[@colleenporter1119]

People ask why? Because officials don't care. What ever way is easiest for them.

[@laurawilliams9672]

Unless some fool tried to get between him and a mare in season, I sincerely doubt he ever got "aggressive".

[@es702rider]

Wild Animals are allowed on private property.

[@lpmoron6258]

My understanding is they want the wild horses gone. Read something somewhere about a ranch that houses mattress only and they are not allowed to reproduce. Don't remember the source or know how accurate it is. We had one of the rescues and she never had a goal. She was around intact males.

[@marshanicholson3791]

I absolutely cannot believe that the reason to kill a horse is simply because he walked on your property. The BLM is a vehicle that is being perhaps miss driven by people that do not care for horses, and I also feel that a wild horse and horses in general Unless cornered and I mean that from experience will try to flee, so I really doubt this horse was coming up to people as a threat is not a wolf it’s not a mountain lion it’s a national treasure it’s our legacy and all of you driving electric vehicles, or internal combustion engines or even reading this right now our technology wouldn’t be possible if the horses hadn’t carried our grandfathers great grandfathers across the plains to the west coast to create Silicon Valley I really and truly think that this horse needs to be used as a example as an example of what not to do The Mustangs are not pests anyone that owns a horse knows what it cost to feed it and board it or put it on your own land. Now, my understanding is they live in an area that is probably not a horses dream to begin with more desert than grass and I really resent the fact that it did this defenseless herbivore is killed for the hell of it. It is truly a sad commentary on our push button society.

[@es702rider]

You seriously could've said it better. Thats us they are shooting down. Our history lives with horses and wild burros in desert. They act like a deer can't walk on they're lawn. I love our history and BLM just pooped on it. They are supposed to save the enitre spring mountains within and outside the wilderness areas. It hits me like someone shxtin on the constitution. It wasn't even a poacher. Our area hasn't seen one in a while, Then here come blm.

[@MrJuvefrank]

Sad.

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Feral. They're feral. At least they didn't call them "mustangs," because there are no original Spanish genetics left in the herd.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

Spanish horses originally came from North America along with every other horse-like animal.

[@meatpopsicle1567]

@@The_Savage_Wombat No, they did not. The horses that were native to North America were genetically Asian, not European. All of those horses, and other "horse-like" animals, went extinct in North America after the last Ice Age, some 11,000 years ago, along with mastodons, mammoths, giant ground sloths, dire wolves, short faced bears, camels, glyptodonts, giant beavers, cheetahs, lions, saber tooth cats, steppe bison, woodland muskoxen, long-legged llamas, and dwarf pronghorns. None of the horses living in North America today contain genetics from the original "Mustangs" that arrived here with the first Spanish explorers. Those horses died out long ago, as the native Western tribes did not maintain them. If not for a second reintroduction of horses by Northern European colonists from Britain, France, and Holland in the late 1600s, there would have been no horses at all in North America. Native horse culture in the West did not arise until well into the mid-18th century, when the Lakota people moved westward out of the upper Mississippi River region of what eventually became Minnesota. By that time, the Spanish horses had all died out in North America.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@meatpopsicle1567 So your saying a native animal was reintroduced but somehow shares no genetic information with its ancestors. I don't understand the logic.

[@meatpopsicle1567]

@@The_Savage_Wombat European horses differ genetically from Asian horses. Kind of like how Japanese people differ genetically from Irishmen.

[@angelobkoljenovic9528]

This is what happens when this happens when people are trying to get into the wrong place horse 🐎 should be protected not killed

[@axbakrb]

No reason to kill horses. Especially wild horses

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

I do not know what this horse did to get himself killed. I doubt it was just wondering into Karen's flowers. Especially since it is stated there had been reports of this particular Stud Horse as far back as July, was it? Most comments on here are from folks who know diddly squat about horses. You have this idelic view of the sweet kind horse that would never ever hurt anyone. The wild free horse that has a fear of mankind and other predators, and would never dare assert themselves in a hostile manner toward human being or another animal. Sorry folks, it just isn't so. I have seen domestic Stallions that have been properly handled by professionals all their life that were so dangerous extreme caution was used when around them. I have seen domestic Stallions and Colts ( Colt = an entire male horse under 5 years of age that has never bred a mare) so nasty they would reach out of their stall , grab a groom walking by with their teeth, pull them into their stall and proceed with killing them. They were not threatened. Never been abused. Never been mishandled. Just mean. The famous racehorse John Henry so mean they gelded him just so he could be handled. He was still mean as a gelding. Mares can be right nasty at times too. However, testosterone really puts mean on a horse, just like other male mammals. Not all, but enough that any Stud bears special care when handling. They can and do go from nice to nasty in a heartbeat. They can and will kill a human, another horse, or other animals. That's a domestic Horse. Add "wild" to that mix, especially this time of year, when the mares are coming into breeding season. Add the fact these horses probably have little fear , or no real fear of humans, as they are never hunted and eaten by humans. You have a recipe for disaster. If the folks in charge of these critters decided this Horse was dangerous, I find it very likely he was. I'm sure they knew there would be a huge outcry about killing the Horse ( I'm capitalizing Horse because it is a proper noun depicting an entire male horse , 5 years of age or older, or has bred a mare at any age) from folks that did not know squat about the danger this animal posed to residents of the area. I highly doubt these folks just blithely decided to go shoot this Stud. Then we have huge outcry about shooting the Horse, instead of euthanasia with drugs. First off, he's wild and dangerous. How about YOU go put a halter on him, and have your friend who is crying foul along with you, stick the needle in his jugular vein and inject the medication. Watch out for those hooves, and teeth, oh, the head of a horse is heavy, and is controlled by the muscular neck of the Stud. Watch out for it too. It hurts to get whacked by a horse head. Now, they could shoot the Horse with a dart, and tranquilize him. Then follow him until he fell, wherever. Then administer the medication. However, l have had the rather recent misfortune of seeing this in person in 2017, to a mare I bred and raised. She gas coliced flipped her colon. No hope for her. She was sedated, then the same medication was administered in an overdose amount. It paralyzed the muscles that control lungs. I had to watch for several minutes while that mare writhed in agony, trying to breath. It was AWFUL. Had I known the regular large animal Vet did not use the same stuff used by the Vets on the track, which kills a horse instantly, I'd of saved myself the $600.00 it cost me to have her "humanely euthanized " and just went and got my shotgun, put in a bearload (solid slug of lead) drawn that X from ear to eye, ear to eye, and shot her myself. She would have died instantly. Unlike the medical death I gave her. Shooting the horse, if mortally wounded by an expert marksman would be instant. And the meat could be used to feed big cats at the zoo or whatever. It's sad this Horse had to die, but since horses are not an endangered species, and the folks with authority felt it was necessary, it probably was. Oh, as for trapping transporting the horse, he would have to be moved far, far away. Horses have a natural homing instinct, and can find their way back to their own range. You can't take a grown Stallion and dump him in another's range, someone is going get hurt. There are lots of particulars about horses that 99.9% of the commentators on here have absolutely no clue about. Yes, it would be nice if people would just live in cities and leave all the wild animals alone. Unfortunately, that is unlikely. Some folks understand animals and can live fairly well with them. Others, like 99.9% of the folks commenting on this tragic tale, don't understand animals, and they are going to get killed if left to their fantasy notions. Wild animals are dangerous. Stallions are dangerous. Domestic, and Feral or Wild. That is the cold hard fact of the matter.

[@snowflake2910]

I guess using the same helicopter blm uses to round up and sell these feral horses was just too much to ask. They'll chase down day old foals in it, but not his heard. I guess there was just no other option.

[@cassiemarie9888]

You are extremely wrong. Stallions aren’t dangerous unless they’re trained to be or someone shows them that aggression first. It’s funny you mention racehorses. I worked on a local racetrack as a teen and saw handfuls of abuse happen between drugging horses to get them to run races while being lame and unsound, beating them senselessly with crops and cattle prods to supposedly “discipline them” after losing a race, using nasty painful bits that destroy the hell out of their mouths, killing horses for senseless pleasure and entertainment. Actually at the track I worked at 4 horses died last year at the beginning of the season and more died this year as well. Here’s the excerpt. “Four race horses died in 2022 meet's first weekend of racing at Tucson's famed horse track, Rillito Park. "You know what, it's sadness you don't get over," Rillito Racetrack General Manager Mike Weiss said. "But I'm excited for next weekend." The manager claimed that “it’s a sadness you “don’t get over” but yet he was excited for the next weekend of horse racing and senseless deaths on the track. This is only a “small town track” but hey I’ve seen it happen in the big leagues too just look at bob baffert and Medina spirit he murdered that poor horse just for fame and money. That’s disgusting.

[@johncritch6812]

Same mentality as those guys who go out and have to shoot the most majestic deer

[@tinat2097]

Wow!! Disgusting

[@kendawyatt3219]

Y’all living in their territory and some how they dangerous for people???? Ummmm go live somewhere else if the wildlife is too dangerous for you to live around. 😑😑😑😑😑

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

Horses were here first, before the colonizers wiped them out, along with 90% of the other large animals. They had no fear of humans and were easy to kill.

[@afonphoenix16]

Um, no they weren't. The colonizers BROUGHT them. 🤣🤣🤣🤣Go back and check your history, bud. But I agree they need their own space.

[@jasoncaine2600]

The problem with stupid people is they don't know they're stupid 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@afonphoenix16 You mean the most recent colonizers reintroduced them. Read up on where horses originally came from.

[@afonphoenix16]

@@The_Savage_Wombat Those horses were long extinct before the Spaniards introduced them. Come ON. 🙄🤣🤣

[@afonphoenix16]

@@The_Savage_Wombat That doesn't mean the natives had them. PREHISTORIC horses roamed before the natives migrated, and went extinct. Spaniards brought them back.

[@dianekruger5977]

Mustangs are technically not wild horses, they are considered feral. Like any animal not owned by humans, that roam around can be dangerous. But only be cause they want their safe spce, meaning no humans, dogs etc. Getting too close for their comfort zone. You see that in videos of actual wild animals, moose, elk, deer etc., where people don't respect these animals safe zone, then get attacked by getting too close.

[@kathlynterry8196]

Calling BS on the BLM.

[@sunshinebrown2549]

Sad

[@thegoblinsteed3558]

DISGUSTING. 😠

[@docalock]

Total bullshit 😒 an angry Karen didn't like it eating her flowers so they put it down shame on them

[@dragonryderslair]

Ok. I am a HUGE animal advocate but they never say EXACTLY what this supposed stallion did. I expect his aggressive action had more to do with human behavior than his behavior. They simply state he became aggressive and trespassed on private land. Was it fenced off Was HE trapped. Did the human approach him when he felt trapped. Stallions are territorial and they will protect thier band mares but are NOT USUALLY aggressive to people unless the person tries to threaten them

[@r_ndou]

not Megan 😔

[@anthonymartinez4307]

Hypocrisy at its finest. The whacky unconstitutional laws in Las Vegas or Nevada. A wild animal is not a threat it’s in its environment. They charge people with crimes for doing them in their “ Corridor “ a city is a public place. So they ban people off the strip now what if those people wrong you and you sue them will those places be shut down if they found guilty? Let’s talk about people who haven’t committed any crimes but since they don’t warn you at the police station once you request a background check that they can charge and punish you even if you haven’t committed any crime and you paid your debt to society why do they charge you again out of court and brand people? This here is another example of frivolous law practices by this corrupted state.

[@lyles4829]

Government don't give a shxt how you feel .......FACTS

[@diamondlambillotte9304]

More than anything I agree more than anything I agree with you

[@miasewell1958]

Awful

[@es702rider]

Its like they seriously limit the amount of animals in spring mountains/ mt charleston when there is not many to begin with. They tag n put trackers on mostly all of them. Everytime i see a animals up there it has a strange collar or tagged.

[@ju4121]

Their land? Lol since when animals own lands lol

[@fdapro1975]

Yes, wild horses were there first. It is their land, we are just stealing it.

[@gregengel1616]

@@fdapro1975 even though I think the guys comment is absolutely ridiculous, and I hope he doesn't get one thumbs up. Saying that, the Native Americans and Europeans were here way before the horse was.

[@MrGeicoTruth]

@@fdapro1869 native Americans reading your comment 🙄

[@angelobkoljenovic9528]

You are not too smart for such comments

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@gregengel1616 Horses evolved in North America. They were wiped out 8,500 years ago by colonizing humans. All the predators that relied on them went extinct along with 90% of the other large animals in North America. Humans weren't good to the animals in the New World.

[@OdinTheGiant]

Dang i was coming up there to see the horse this is so sad.

[@sue-silvermist1199]

Sue them

[@bethowens2237]

He wasn’t aggressive so that mean there was NO reason to kill him like none

[@sweettoothmarie7304]

Whoever pulled the trigger..like really?

[@Wolfy39565]

this pisses me off

[@dmcleod1000]

So sad.

[@maggiepatterson7949]

Makes me PHYSICALLY ILL!

[@nathanmccarthy5532]

They could have re homed him or something this is really stupid.

[@JS-pz8yp]

Damn shame this happened. These are ferral horses and should be removed. The 'do gooders' are also to blame. Instead of fighting for them to stay, which is more for their emotional needs, they should be fighting for stiffer penalties and funding to help find and prosecute the morons that release them. I would also suggest to those who live and preach about the horses and other animal rights to the habitat to pack up and leave the Spring Mountains maybe fight to keep the Cold Creek area as nature intended Hmmmm.

[@Goldenhawk583]

these horses are not bred and released. The reason they are called feral, is because they are not native. They are wild though, and have been for generations. They have had time to adapt , a the land has had time to adapt to them. I fear you need a time machine, going back to the spanish conqistadors in order to find and fine the idiots who released them. Nature changes all the time.. these horses are not the culprits.

[@JS-pz8yp]

@Goldenhawk583 no, sorry you don't have to go back that far. Over the past 40 years I have seen the feral horses appear myself. I remember a time when there were no horses there. The land has not had time to adapt, it simply can't support them.

[@Goldenhawk583]

@@JS-pz8yp For your local area, I have no clue ( duh), I was speaking in general. But I suspect it may be a good thing actually.. we might be reverting to horses soon, you are lucky to have them roaming free nearby ;)

[@JS-pz8yp]

@@Goldenhawk583 How was I supposed to know that you were talking out of your A**(derp)

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

JS your original comment- is the only informed, intelligent comment I have read on this topic, so far.

[@SuicidalH]

It's a wild animal. What did they expect? I just call this natural selection. Sadly the horse got killed for being smarter than the human.

[@problemch1ld048]

Can you breed horses and just let them go in the wild just a question don’t hurt me in the comments lol😂

[@meatpopsicle1567]

That's called animal abandonment. It's against the law. See Nevada Revised Statute 574.100 and NRS 574.110.

[@anthonymartinez4307]

In Nevada Prostitution is legal but they are against human trafficking. Mustang ranch Chicken Ranch to name a few. Now they discard animals and humans lake mead had priors.

[@meatpopsicle1567]

@@anthonymartinez4307 Prostitution is legal in 10 of Nevada's 17 counties. It's not lawful statewide. Plus, the Mustang Ranch no longer exists. It was seized by the federal government for tax evasion, with its assets and buildings sold off at auction in the early 2000s. The last standing building was burned down in a training exercise in 2007. The site is to be returned to a natural state on the shore of the Truckee River. Nevada's legal prostitution is not human trafficking. The women are not held captive and they are able to leave the brothels at any time. In fact, the women who work as "courtesans" often times come from out of state to work in the houses. Some travel a circuit, working in multiple houses during the year, following the tourists and trying to make as much profit for themselves as possible. Prostitution is not legal in Washoe County, where Reno is located, and in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, yet there are some streets where one cannot avoid being accosting by "working girls," especially near the larger casinos. This is yet another example of the failure of prohibitions.

[@zambiieunicorn8466]

Releasing horses that knew nothing more than their life with humans is near to a death sentence. It's the equivalent to chunking out a person who has 0 knowledge of the land or how to survive out there and expect them to live happily and well while for others who have been with humans for too long they'll get too close to the wrong people and be a danger to themselves and possibly the person they get close to. The best thing, and Far More cheaper thing to do is to simply manage the herd in an organized manner in the land they live in.

[@angelobkoljenovic9528]

I think horse 🐴 hasn’t paid the rent in his own house or the range this is just crazy and criminal behavior by the people responsible

[@braveone3216]

Horses don’t attack people PERIOD!

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

The hell they don't! Even domestic. Stallions are dangerous. A "wild" stallion is an extremely dangerous animal. You obviously do not know horses. Having spent 60 plus years around horses, 40 years on the racetrack as a professional, I can unequivocally inform yoy that indeed, both male and female horses will attack people. They are extremely dangerous. 1000 lbs average - with teeth and front / rear feet that are hard as rocks on the end of long powerful legs. Seen 3 people die by horse. Countless others injured, badly. Been bit, kicked myself and consider myself lucky to have survived a few of those incidents. You do not know WTF you are talking about.

[@zambiieunicorn8466]

They do when they feel threatened, meaning this horse literally was just protecting himself and/or his herd and got killed for it.

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

@@zambiieunicorn8466 they also attack people when they feel like doing so. Especially Stallions. I speak from a lifetime experience with horses. There are some nasty horses out there.

[@zambiieunicorn8466]

@@darlenelarochelle4011 They don't attack for no reason is what I'm saying. No horse is a senseless creature out for blood, there is always a reason behind what they do.

[@braveone3216]

@@darlenelarochelle4011 😂

[@chief-smoke1]

TORY LANEZ DIDNT DO IT!

[@ralphpeterson2645]

Should not have killed !!!

[@elliesouza717]

@sexyhorse529 Hate to break it to you, but they can be

[@ashleyhuskie4760]

omg he so beautiful … you threat him first the land belongs to the animals and plants before it belongs to the people.

[@Liv_Tea]

It brokes my heart to hear a horse has been kill by a stupid person.

[@johngrant5881]

BLM enough said

[@chipdip6577]

Hold up wait a min I killed Fletcher.

[@duskojasic5234]

Lies