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I am currently on vacation in California to visit my friends & family out here. On Thursday I wrote a pretty good rough draft for my history essay, and I'll be finishing it handing it in sometime this week. There seems to be so much history having to do with mustangs and horses, but it's sometimes difficult to know if a particular fact has more to do with mustangs or horses and if I should put it into the essay. Wild mustangs are basically horses or descendants of horses that were released by or escaped from people who probably tamed them. So is it relevant what battles or journeys tame horses were involved with if those horses' descendants are mustangs? I hope so, because I'm putting those sorts of things in my essays.

Friday I got to visit my Aunt's mustang, Shelby! I didn't ride him then because there wasn't that much time, but we did feed him and let him run around in a pen for a while. He's about six years old, and he is so gorgeous. He's pretty big, too. Most mustangs are supposed to be short and small (about 14 hands, which means about 56 inches), but Shelby is over 15 hands. It was fun to go see him.

On another note, about a week ago there was a BLM mustang roundup that may have caused the death of 13 of the horses. The horses died from dehydration, or had to be put down because of other illnesses. One horse had to be put down because he broke a leg because of the round up. The BLM says their deaths have more to do with the drought, but animal rights advocates say their deaths had more to do with the round-up. I think it was probably a combination of the two. But of course, had they not done the round up and if they don't continue then more horses could die of dehydration in the wild. It's a tricky situation. I think this issue will probably be my subject for my current issue essay. It's interesting, I'd like to research it more, regardless of whether or not it will be the focus of my essay.

That's all for now!