2 Oklahoma horses’ deaths were odd for federally run adoptions

 
CARRIE COPPERNOLL
Published: July 22, 2009

The two horses adopted by a Broken Arrow man and then starved to death are the exception to an otherwise healthy federal adoption program, a program spokesman said.

Of the hundreds of federal horses adopted in the region each year, fewer than 10 are confiscated because their owners aren’t taking care of them, said Paul McGuire , a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Adoption...


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