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The Holding Pen
Life is not easy for many wild herds. Vegetation is sparce and for a practical matter, adult horses have no natural predators. Thus the herds can increase beyond their available food supply. In poorer areas the horses must work hard all day to find enough food, then travel miles to drinkable water.
In such instances the most humane practice is to gather some of the horses so that those remaining in the herds can flourish healthfully in their environments, and find good adoptive homes for those which have been gathered in.
These scraggly newly gathered specimins oftentimes look very little like their counterparts who have found good homes and have benefitted from better nutrition and fewer hardships.
 
Even in the holding pens, herd instincts prevail.
"You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
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