Evelyn WaughⓋ

Mastodon: Display name = Evelyn WaughⓋ; address: @[email protected]

Je suis Vegan.

La vérité a ses ennemis; l'erreur ses partisans. ~ Francois Baucher

[NMHP @NMBewitched]

Is there anything he can't do?

Hershey Kiss
https://t.co/LxwzHAarUI
#AdoptMe

The purrfect mix of silly, smart & snuggly
Want a companion to take to families homes, reunions, the bar, a party your BFF is only a click away

*He can't juggle, I hope it is not a game changer

[Rise for Animals @rise_foranimals]

Q: How many animals are in U.S. labs?

A: So far, the USDA has posted 2025 Annual Reports for 995 animal research facilities. Together, those facilities reported holding or using more than 1,900,000 animals.

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[R.A.C.E. Fund, Inc. @RACEFund]

🆘🆘🆘🆘👉Update! We have gotten Miley picked up from the lot. She is thin, has a long trip and layover. We are now at $1905 so far for Miley. We need to raise $1170 more to reach goal. Please share and consider a donation to help us help Miley. Our PayPal Donation link is : https://t.co/Yi2dJr6AJo

Thank you.

[Jim Haslam @jhas5]

Francis Collins said he & Fauci helped edit the Proximal Origin paper “but are appropriately not mentioned explicitly in the paper."

[Hanaeleh @Hanaeleh]

Help Regal Find a Forever Home ASAP (Anaheim Hills, CA). Regal is a 12 year old OTTB, who won several races. More info here: https://t.co/oGFrFStXAH PLEASE SHARE.

Regal is NOT at Hanaeleh. To adopt her, please click the above link and complete our horse inquiry form.

[Tyler Stepke @TylerAStepke]

Virology research is not a crime.

Repeatedly and blatantly violating biosecurity procedures to smuggle dangerous pathogens into the country is a crime. Deleting federal records is a crime.

Rasmussen is one of the most toxic and disgraced virologists involved in covering up the deadliest biological accident in history. It's unsurprising that she's friends with criminals and defends their dangerous biosecurity violations.

She is a serious threat to biosecurity, and it's sad that anyone is still ignorant enough to support her dangerous BS.

[Team Wolf @teamwolf_org]

A wolf mother was shot dead after CPW denied a ranch’s request to kill wolves—the ranch that killed the wolf has defended their decision.

The King Mountain Pack was one of just 4 CO packs to have pups in 2025—now both parents are dead.

Public lands are not ranchers' kill zones.

[Ernesto’s Sanctuary for Syrian Cats @theAleppoCatmen]

We were told last night that this cat was found by the side of the road and he appeared to have suffered a severe blow and a wound to the muscles. We cleaned the wound, stitched it and gave him anti-inflammatories, nerve tonic, and antibiotics.
Please send him good thoughts and wishes.

[GMO/Toxin Free USA @GMOFreeUSA]

Initially, this farmer did not choose to go organic, he was forced into it due to economics.

[TriBeagles @TriBeagles]

Adoptable beagle of the day-Sophie! https://t.co/ujYvf6J1uV

[Evelyn WaughⓋ @Kerbrech]

@stevenstrogatz Om mani padme hum, Murray.

[Austin Cats & Dogs Rescue @atxcatdogrescue]

Cookie is 8 years old and in need of forever home in Austin, TX!

She’s VERY affectionate! Cookie loves being petted, being on your lap, laying in bed next to you and playing fetch! She’s very sweet & talkative too!

Email us to adopt Cookie: [email protected]!

[Erik Johnson @erikmoldwarrior]

We have a LOT of people to thank for this clusterfuck clown show. But the ME/CFS advocates are the ones people trusted to sort this out.
They betrayed that trust and obfuscated WORSE than any other organized opposition.
ME/CFS groups should hang their heads in shame.
In prison.

[Charles W | Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕😷 @waltz_tales]

@jeterfan28 @julietlandau @DavidSi50785942 @coinsedgemedia @buiosegreta @bonniegrrl @RipperGiles17 @RiverCityOtter @ParkerTechGuy @BuffyLookBook Turns out Long COVID, pediatric strokes, pneumonia & lots of other problems happen because COVID isn’t a respiratory disease, like the flu.

It’s a vascular disease. Like SARS 1 in 2003, hantavirus, dengue and Marburg.

The mechanism is organ damage via blood vessel injury. 4/🧵

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

I’m so excited. My secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance.

FIFA World cup.
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@SecureBio
https://t.co/3Yi9LFwNz2

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Interesting piece on the need for Colorado farmers to replace thirsty crops (eg cattle feed) with less-thirsty crops (eg black eyed peas) and the challenge of shaping markets to adapt.

[Evelyn WaughⓋ @Kerbrech]

@drcrystalheath Good lord, that’s a barren & boring environment in which to be imprisoned :(

[Crystal Heath DVM @drcrystalheath]

North Dakota Senator @SenJohnHoeven and @SenTimKaine's bipartisan legislation to maintain wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park passes in the Senate.

The legislation now goes to the House of Representatives.

The Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wild Horses Protection Act, S. 1377, would require Interior to keep a genetically diverse herd of at least 150 horses in the park’s South Unit, develop a management plan within 120 days, and publicly report annually on population, structure, and health. It would bar removals except for genetic management, emergencies, or public health and safety.

NPS had considered plans that could have removed the park’s roughly 200 horses or reduced/managed them toward much lower numbers. In April 2024, after public backlash and political pressure, NPS terminated its “Livestock Plan and Environmental Assessment,” leaving the horses in place but without the kind of permanent statutory protection this bill would provide.

The Park Service argues the horses are not technically “wild horses” under the federal Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and NPS classifies them as livestock, not native wildlife. NPS says Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s enabling law does not require or authorize livestock, and its management policies prioritize native ecosystems and natural/cultural resources.

Locals and advocates argue the horses are part of the park’s historic landscape and visitor experience. They are strongly associated with the Badlands, open-range ranching, Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Dakota Territory, and North Dakota identity.

When Theodore Roosevelt National Park was established in 1947, free-roaming horses already existed in the area. Some were likely ranch horses that had escaped or been released and then reproduced on their own. A 2024 population-genomics paper describes free-roaming horses in the Badlands at the time the park was created, including animals owned or branded by local ranchers that were allowed to forage and reproduce and later recaptured.

What are "Nakota" horses?

The name “Nokota” was coined by Leo Kuntz, one of the brothers who began buying park horses at NPS auctions. The Kuntz brothers and later the Nokota Horse Conservancy built a private breeding program to preserve horses they believed represented the older Badlands type.

Nokota advocates argue that the old Badlands horses were a composite of several sources: Indigenous horses, ranch horses, Spanish-influenced horses, draft/harness horses, Thoroughbreds, and other working-horse bloodlines used in the Dakota badlands.

The Nokota Horse Conservancy specifically points to Lakota/Hunkpapa horses, “Indian ponies,” ranch breeding by figures such as the Marquis de Morès and A.C. Huidekoper, and the persistence of blue roan, a color they associate with northern Plains horses.

One often-repeated claim is that some of the horses may trace partly to horses confiscated from Sitting Bull’s band after his surrender. The evidence here is historically suggestive but not ironclad. The better-supported version is more cautious: the old Badlands horse population likely included Indigenous-bred horses and ranch-bred horses from the same regional horse economy, rather than being a pure or directly traceable “Sitting Bull horse” line.

In the 1980s, park administrators decided to change the appearance and marketability of the herd. The Conservancy says dominant park stallions were removed or killed and replaced with outside stallions, including an Arabian, Quarter Horses, two BLM feral stallions, and a part-Shire bucking horse. It says the rationale was partly to improve appearance and sale value at auction.

For decades, NPS tried to eliminate or sharply reduce them. Historical accounts describe early removals, shooting, roundups, sales, and even horses sold to a zoo as feed for large cats. Around 1970, the park shifted toward retaining a herd as a “historic demonstration” of the open-range ranching era after recognition that Roosevelt had written about wild horses in the Badlands.

Before the recent backlash, the park had older management guidance that contemplated far fewer horses. The AP reported that a 1978 environmental assessment set a population objective of 35–60 horses, while advocates argued that a viable, genetically healthy herd needs something closer to 150–200 reproductive horses.

#wildhorses #mustang #animalwelfare

[Crystal Heath DVM @drcrystalheath]

Footage from the Wheatland, Wyoming Off- Range Corral yesterday.

As of May 2026, BLM reported 58,025 wild horses and burros in off-range facilities: 20,350 in corrals and 36,459 in off-range pastures, plus 1,216 in public off-range pastures. BLM’s total off-range capacity was listed as 78,751 animals.

In 2024, BLM reported $101 million in off-range holding costs.

This facility was built to hold up to 3,500 wild horses and burros on more than 200 acres. It began receiving animals in January 2021 and was completed later that year.

In 2022, there was a strangles outbreak.

After the 2024 North Lander gather, BLM said Wheatland received about 2,555 horses from that gather alone.

How long are they kept there?

It can be weeks, months, or longer, depending on age, health, processing status, demand from adopters, whether mares have foals, and whether the animal is selected for transfer to another facility or pasture. BLM’s own 2024 FAQ notes that some mares and foals were being allowed “as much time as needed to settle,” especially because some mares gave birth after arrival.

They are sorted, monitored, fed hay, watered, medically processed, identified, and then moved into adoption, sale, transfer, or long-term pasture pathways.

BLM says horses at Wheatland receive daily observation by BLM staff, contracted facility staff, and a contracted veterinarian, with farrier care as needed. They are fed alfalfa hay and have unlimited water, with supplementation as needed.

A 2024 BLM Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program assessment rated Wheatland 97% compliant, but still found non-compliances: some animals needing supplemental feed had not been separated from the general population, some intact 2–3-year-old stallions had remained intact for months, and some animals who met BLM euthanasia criteria had not been euthanized.

During a 2022 assessment, Wheatland met 83% of applicable standards and was rated “Complies,” but the report noted insufficient staffing, limited small pens for sick/injured/special-care animals, no shade or windbreaks for compromised pens, drainage concerns, sharp edges, a high number of horses in body condition score 3, spoiled/moldy hay observed in several pens, inadequate simultaneous access to hay, and delayed freeze marking/Coggins testing after intake.