It does not cost 1k to have a dog put down. You got seriously ripped off.

"If you can't keep your head when all around you are losing theirs..."

They sell them to civilians too. We have one, it's a government program.

You are correct, but public opinion is so out of wack on this topic that it is hard to have a rational conversation.

Several years ago I was involved in a zoning process in a rural county with many active farms on it. Coincidently, someone else was trying to build an abattoir to process horse meat. This is absolutely an allowed use in an agriculturally zoned area, and the developer just needed what should have been an automatic approval. Long story short, the county turned down the approval and more-or-less said “sue us.” So even though it was legal in fact, public opinion made it illegal.

As I recall, the abattoir was being developed to process horse meat for export.

It's just basically Joker.

plus all them horny Pilgrims, woo woo! they could also be called hogs.

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I had a neighbor that had 2, they were tattooed with serial #s (I think liquid NO2), she was a trail rider and they were very good, well trained. I thought it was illegal to slaughter horses in the US, I could be wrong

"Horse meat?! Oh goodness no."

"Bbq brisket and pulled pork, awww yea."

Damn I spent like 1k to put my dog down when it was her time. Spent like 10k on bills the previous 6 months to keep her around so it didn’t seem like much to me since I would have paid anything to make her healthy again. For a large animal like a horse that seems.. cheap I guess?

>containing one to several million flowers

I absolutely do not believe it has ever been just one flower without human intervention

Yes, it does mean that. We just don’t use memorial commonly to mean within memory.

Is it still 1189 in the US then? Wouldn’t that mean it wouldn’t apply to anything other than Native American issues?

Where my parents live it seems like everyone has a horse. Not as a beloved family pet, or to ride, or to work. Just to have.

You've never seen more horses standing listlessly in fields that are too small for them. No shelter in those fields. No other horses. Out of eyeline from the houses usually too.

I'd rather eat a horse than see those horses "live" like they do

180°

People are so touchy about eating horse. In Europe it’s a delicacy. And my tribe it is one our many cultural traditions, and serves as a form of respect to the horse. I understand many white Americans don’t like us Natives, but the feeling is mutual.

There are absolutely herds of feral horses running around.

That's what happens when you start direct flights from Glasgow to Reykjavik. :)

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Biting midges have been in Iceland for a long time. This article from 2000 (in Icelandic) mentions 4 species of biting midges, 1 of which preys on mammals, including humans.

In 2015, a new species of biting midges appeared and started spreading through South and West, and that species turned out to be much more aggressive, and also much smaller than the native species, meaning it can get through the bug nets over the windows and bite people in their sleep.

Reports of excessive midge bites became much more prevalent following this new species, which is why that "problem" dates to that year, although biting midges are not new.

That used to be the case. The BLM has put a lot more protections in place to prevent that from happening nowadays. Not saying it never does, but it's much more rare (and illegal) than people are lead to believe.

The blm in Wyoming has tons of them. Come get a few.

Hey man, geometry is hard!