SUNDRE, ALTA.—Bob Henderson’s love affair with wild horses began almost 50 years ago and he’s become a passionate advocate for the ponies that roam in the Rocky Mountain foothills of west-central Alberta. He snorted and blew — and that was it,” Henderson recalled recently at a barn and corral operated by the Wild Horses of Alberta Society near Sundre. “I fell in love with those horses and I’ve worked hard just to become a voice for them.”Three wild mares staff were trying to “gentle down” so the animals could be adopted are in the corral. “When they’re brought in for the first time, except for maybe seeing humans out in the bush, they’ve had no contact with humans,” Henderson said. So if there’s a conflict between the feral horses and the wild, our direction is toward protection for the wild species,” she said.

Source: thestar December 28, 2019 15:00 UTC