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Behind the Scenes at Chincoteague: the Death Toll Rises ljlosite, wild Assa­ o:eague Island ponies are driven BEH across the Assateague Channel to Chincoteague during the annual pony penning, held in July. • left, two men attempt to CHIN cool off a Chincoteague • mare that collapsed during 1989 pony pen­ ning activities. Despite such efforts, the pony later died. here were about 40 to 50 horses into a sweat. I started asking people for ganized rescue effort, he was forced to ad­ mares make the swim back to freedom on in the pen. They all looked very their ice-coolers, but nobody wanted to minister treatment to the dying animal in Friday. stressed," recalled Jan Spink, give them up. I emptied the sodas out of 102 degree heat in the back of the horse It's not only the festivities associated with Ta therapeutic riding instructor mine and began to pack ice around the trailer. pony penning, but also the complaints The from central Virginia. Ms. Spink mare." Not surprisingly, these efforts were as HSUS receives each year that have become was on her way to the beach when she stop­ The fire company maintains a veter­ futile as they were heroic. Adequate part of the annual tradition. For more than ped to observe pony-handling procedures inarian of record for the ponies, and he was veterinary care came too late for that pony, two decades, HSUS investigators have mon­ during Chincoteague's annual pony­ at his office some twenty miles away. When just as it did for another 5 mares that have itored Chincoteague's roundup, document­ penning roundup. "Then I noticed that he was radioed for assistance, said Ms. died in the last two years-the victims ing a multitude of abuses ranging from the 1 mare was down," she con­ of Chincoteague's famous pony sale of day-old foals and the manhandling tinued. "She wasn't looking penning. of newborns to the shipment of newly pur­ right. chased ponies-their legs tied tightly to­ "I went to the firemen [who Fire Company gether-in the backseats ofVolkswagons and sponsor the roundup]; there $40,000, Ponies $0 jeeps. "Wild-pony rides," in which mares, were about a dozen of them Each year, during the last just separated from their foals, are forced standing around. None of them week in July, the tiny island to endure bronc riding by local cow­ had noticed the pony, so I town of Chincoteague, Vir­ boy-types, are also part of the show. pointed her out and said that ginia, is thrust into the national While negotiations with the fire company she was in severe distress and spotlight as tens of thousands have resulted in some improvements (com­ needed a vet immediately. of spectators converge to par­ pany officials no longer sell day-old foals, "I watched for about ten ticipate in pony-penning transportation standards have been up­ minutes, assuming the fire events. Scores of newborn graded, and foal-care packets are distributed company had a competent foals, mistakenly thought to be to buyers by The HSUS and the American system in place for veterinary descended from ponies swept Horse Protection Association), problems emergencies. I assumed that overboard from a Spanish ship I continue to plague the operation, the result everybody was running to get 350 years ago, are auctioned to of the expedient and highly stressful fashion things for the mare. I assumed bidders in a time-honored tra­ in which the herd is handled and managed. wrong. Nobody seemed to ~~--____j'- dition that dates back sixty­ I Impulse buying by spectators with no be doing anything to help her, four years. knowledge of the specialized care horses re­ and valuable time was being wasted. Spink, "He told us he had a parking lot full Assateague Island, a thirty-seven-mile • owned by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire coffers. Despite the record take, most of the quire is common. "I finally said, 'You've got to get a vet!' of clients and couldn't be disturbed. 'We spit off the Maryland/Virginia shore, is the Company. Each year, that organization pays monies raised during pony penning come They said, 'We tried. No vet will come.' " have a pony that's going into deep shock,' home to roughly 300 wild ponies-animals $180 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not from the sale of ponies but rather from 1988: Four Mares Collapse The next thing Jan Spink knew was that we said. He said he wouldn't refuse treat­ that have made the successful transition to (FWS) and is granted a special-use permit the booming tourist trade that accompanies Last summer, a new threat to resident fire company officials were bringing a ment if the mare was brought to his office." life in a marine environment. These hardy to graze its ponies on the federal refuge. As the event. ponies surfaced when, shortly after round­ respiratory therapist to the corral site. Eventually, the animal, unable even to horses live in an exceedingly hostile I long as the ponies do not pose a threat to Pony penning gets underway Sunday, as up on Chincoteague NWR, several mares "Outside of myself, she was the only per­ move its legs or hold its head up, was habitat, enduring everything from the island's unique ecology, the FWS toler­ firemen on horseback begin to round up and became gravely ill and lapsed into shock. son with any knowledge of horses," Ms. dragged into a horse trailer and carted away. temperature extremes to heavy mosquito ates their presence and enjoys the added at­ corral the refuge's ponies, separating the It would be weeks before autopsies revealed Spink explained. "But even she was stand­ "I thought they were taking her to a vet," and tick infestations. Consuming a variety traction they represent to refuge visitors. stallions from mares and foals. On Wednes­ that, in the frenzy of the roundup, the ponies ing there in confusion, telling the crowd the said Jan Spink, "but they took her to a of grasses in Assateague's marshlands, the In what is billed as a management tool day, with crowds of spectators lining the had consumed island vegetation toxic to pony was about to give birth." The pony shady area of the carnival grounds." (A sec­ ponies manage to flush the excess salt from necessary to thin the Chincoteague herd, banks, mares and foals are forced to swim their systems, vegetation that would ulti­ wasn't even pregnant. "Meanwhile, the ond veterinarian, contacted by phone, had their systems by drinking the fresh water each year, the fire company sells off most across a channel separating Assateague Is­ mately cause cyanide poisoning in the pony was overheating in the direct sunlight, suggested that she be taken to a shady place they find in rain puddles and springs. of the herd's newborn foals, a tradition that, land and the refuge from the seaside town mares. and nobody was doing anything. That's and given some water.) When the pony A herd of about 150 ponies inhabits the twenty years ago, brought the fire company of Chincoteague. Once they reach the op­ Although the pony deaths were kept when I finally jumped the fence." failed to rally, it was trucked north to the Virginia lower third of Assateague Island, a few thousand dollars, but, today, has be­ posite bank, the ponies are given a short under tight wraps by the fire company, in­ Ms. Spink began directing efforts to save Virginia/ Maryland line where a third living quietly in the salt marshes of the come a much more lucrative event. This rest, then herded down Main Street to Chin­ formation about the tragedy was leaked to the dying animal. "I was furious that they veterinarian, licensed to practice only in Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge year, with a total of 77 foals selling for an coteague's carnival grounds. Thursday The HSUS by an anonymous phone caller. hadn't done anything until I mobilized Maryland, agreed to meet and treat the (NWR). Although they are described as average of $600 a piece, pony penning morning, foals are taken from their mothers An HSUS investigation during pony pen­ them. By this time, the pony had broken animal. Deeply disturbed over the disor- "wild," these 150 ponies are actually added a whopping $40,000 to the firemen's and auctioned off to spectators; foal-less ning revealed that 4 mares had died, and, 14 HSUS NEWS • Fall 1989 HSUS NEWS • Fall 1989 15 ight, a Chinco­ Rteague pony is examined for pur­ Chincoteague's ponies. "My proposal here by imposing a stiff fine and making it clear chase. Below, four men may seem ambitious, but I believe it can be that the company's expedient treatment of hoist a newly purchased carried out in a commonsense manner. ponies for profit will no longer be tolerated. Chincoteague pony into Hopefully, these changes could lead to bet­ After all, any organization that netted a horse trailer. The ter husbandry... and stop the death losses in $40,000 from the sale of foals that inhabit HSUS has found, in the the pony population with its attendant bad a taxpayer-funded refuge can certainly af­ past, that many such publicity." ford to pay a fine for its negligent actions purchases are made on John Schroer has vowed to add new stip­ affecting its stock. In addition to a fine, ex­ impulse by people inex­ ulations to next year's grazing permit, re­ plain that, if the FWS does not intend to perienced in caring for quiring a veterinarian to "check in" with the revoke the fire company's grazing permit, wild horses.
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