TO GOOD HOME WILD MUSTANGS, BURROS UP FOR ADOPTION.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer Christine Valada just stopped by to look at the wild mustangs and burros available for adoption Saturday at Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. . Valada, 50, an attorney from Woodland Hills, already owns a horse and wasn't really in the market for another one. Even if she were tempted, the cast on her left arm from a fall in March and her son Michael, 20, were there to remind her that one horse was enough. ``They are big animals,'' she said, adding that she's terrified ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. of heights and speed, ``but there's almost a psychic connection you end up having with them.'' And she couldn't help admiring a headstrong head·strong adj. 1. Determined to have one's own way; stubbornly and often recklessly willful. See Synonyms at obstinate, unruly. 2. Resulting from willfulness and obstinacy. 3-year-old black mare who kept all the others in the pen in line, a filly she dubbed ``Harriet Potter'' for the white, lightning-bolt shaped marking on the mare's forehead. Eighty wild mustangs and 30 burros were available for adoption, part of a program by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to preserve the free-roaming herds of more than 40,000 wild animals WILD ANIMALS. Animals in a state of nature; animals ferae naturae. Vide Animals; Ferae naturae. in Western states. The BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines and the forest service gather excess wild horses Wild Horses may refer to:
v. To inoculate with a vaccine in order to produce immunity to an infectious disease such as diphtheria or typhus. vac them and make them available to qualified members of the public for adoption, said Doran Sanchez, public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. spokesman for the BLM. Thinning the herds helps maintain the overall herd, which have had their habitats damaged by droughts and wildfires. Silent bids were taken on the animals from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., and about half of the horses and six of the burros were adopted. Adoptions continue today on a first-come, first-served basis, with prices set at $125 for a horse, $125 for a female burro burro: see ass. and $25 for a male. The Cervantes family of Sun Valley - Adam, 39, Susie, 39, Melinda, 14 and Michael, 16 - were all smiles after the bids were tallied: They were the proud owners of 2-year-old and 4-year-old buckskin buckskin body coat color in horses, varies from yellow to almost brown; the points, including mane, tail, lower limbs are brown to black. males. Susie bid on her 2-year-old at the last minute and got him for $125; Melinda got into a bidding war for hers, filling up two pages of a clipboard with back-and-forth bids but won her horse for $250. This was the family's first time at a BLM auction, and Adam Cervantes said he was impressed with the quality of the animals: ``They look like good horses with strong, good legs.'' Laurie Weller, 34, of Shadow Hills didn't get the first two horses she bid on but did get a 1-year-old chestnut filly after the bidding process. She too was impressed with the animals and noted there were lots of beautiful horses to choose from, even after half of them had been adopted. She plans have the horse trained until her 2-year-old daughter, Chloe, is old enough to ride it. The animals have been in captivity for a few months, but Sanchez said an experienced trainer could be riding one of the mustangs in two to four weeks. ``Mustangs are known for their strength, speed and endurance,'' Sanchez said. ``They can be trained to do just about anything.'' Sanchez added that people often adopt burros as companion or guard animals for their horses and other animals. Both the mustangs and the burros are extremely intelligent - Sanchez said the burros might be slightly more so, and seem to adapt to domestic life more quickly. ``It takes them no time at all to figure out who's got the feed bucket,'' he said. ``Two to three days later, they're following you around and basically, you've got a big puppy on your hands.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) A burro waits to be adopted during an auction by the Bureau of Land Management on Saturday at Pierce College. (2) Nicole Wilson, left, and Deana Dvorak look at wild burros during an action at Pierce College on Saturday. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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