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I have never heard of the Namibian Desert Horses. I will have to read up and watch the video tomorrow. It is getting late here.
After 100 years they do seem to have adapted to life there.
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04-10-2021, 04:41 PM
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All I can say is I wouldn't want to be a horse in that desert. I would always want clean fresh cool water and green lush grass and clover with plenty of shade trees and maybe some rolling hills. You might not like the notion that the animals should be put down by man to rid them of that rough lifestyle though that might be the least expensive option for them to escape such a hard life. When your horse breaks a leg in the wilds, you humanely dispatch it with your gun.
They may need our help but nobody may offer it still. If Mother Nature kills off each and every one of them in the end, they will feed wild predators there. If you are personally rich, maybe YOU yourself can rescue them to a more heavenly livelihood if the Namibian government would even comply. Those poor horses seem to be good for the profitability of tourism though. Namibian authorities might not want somebody to adopt them all even if they had means to do so. They are a living historical conversation piece.
I think most would agree that man should never abandon domestic animals anywhere in the first place and let any invasive species go free. Anyway, I'm sheltered, pampered and provided for in America with steaks, potatoes, air conditioning, running water and yummy milkshakes and the Namibian feral horses aren't my personal problem.
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04-13-2021, 06:10 AM
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Perhaps a zoologist or some other professional animal expert knows what's best for this feral herd. I'm just a dumb American who sits at his computer all day long and browses things all over Google and YouTube. I do hate needless animal and human suffering though. The video I posted insists that German colonists, German soldiers and South African soldiers all abandoned their own respective horses arsing from military actions of World War I. Namibia is a former German colony with interest in mining diamonds. The Germans lost their African holdings following World War I. The human stupidity of war and economic greed has resulted in leaving animals in a bad way. If man really left the animals there to their own devices then shame on him.
I'm not going to worry myself over this anymore. There are lot of hungry people in this world as well. Most suffering of living things in this world is due to the overall faults of man. Man is arrogant, greedy, selfish, sinfully proud, money-hungry and power-hungry. Those few members of Homo sapiens sapiens with money and/or power contribute to the suffering of many.
I don't have the means myself to help these horses. I can only offer my ideas of what might be done to otherwise make things better. I can only make suggestions. It was a very interesting video I stumbled upon and I thought it worth sharing here anyway just for the general knowledge of others.
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It is very nice that you are concerned about the horses. All the wild horse herds in various parts of the world are descended from horses that have escaped or been lost or left behind. They seem to have adapted to wherever they are and they are happy. The Namibian horses are in trouble because of a drought spell, but so are other African animals. Hopefully with help they will survive and continue their lives in peace.
Humans have a lot of faults and we do need to make changes in the way we do things. However we cannot take the blame for everything that goes wrong in the world. There are a lot of good people doing a lot of good things. Most people are not that good or that bad. Like the horses they are just trying to live their lives.
Catherine