[White Foot]

Kill it. Once it has found a home then it will come back, no matter what. Trust me, kill it. Have you ever seen a horse that has EPM? It is noting you would ever want to see, it's so horrible. If you truly loved your horses you would kill it.

Studies have proven that generally when you relocate a wild animal it dies. Because of stress, lack of food, and disease transmission.

 

[White Foot]

By no means do I think they're ugly. I LOVE animals and all animals. They even make really good pets
But I just think you have to put one love before another (horse before opposum). Either way it's a death sentence for the opposum by killing it yourself or by relocating it.

 

[White Foot]

Less than 1%?? I've seen 7 horses my whole short 19 years of life contract the disease. And six of the seven were completely healthy horses. Two of them were almost dead. And I also know alot of wildlife rehabilitators who will disagree that they won't come back. It's your risk, and it's not worth taking in my opinion.

 

[White Foot]

They were all separate cases. And you have many horses so why would you want to take the risk? I know for a fact that five of the horses were diagnosed at first only by a physical exam, then they sent things to the lab for testing and the tests came back pos.