We’re so grateful for all the engagement – comments, likes and shares – our previous post about Wiley received.
We’re grateful for everyone who helps us help Mustangs, in all different ways. A big thank you to those of you who have donated on his behalf, it means so much!
If you’ve missed the previous post, I’ll be including donation info again under this one. If you feel like contributing to Wiley’s care and training, we’d be so grateful. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, your donation may be tax-deductible.
Pat Doak contacted us and sent along photos of Wiley on the range that we have permission to share with you all. Wiley as a tiny foal, a scruffy weanling and a handsome young stallion. That was a rare and unexpected treat, thank you so much Pat!
A quick caveat: We’re no online warehouse. Just because it’s “in stock”, that doesn’t mean it’s available. Just because it’s available, that doesn’t mean the first person with the money and a trailer gets it. “It” is a life. “It” has a personality. “It” has needs, just like we do.
“It”, him, Wiley deserves time – time to get to know us, to figure out if he wants to do this people thing at all, and if he wants to then whether he can, safely, reliably, even under pressure and with different people.
He is not available for adoption at this time. And he won’t be until we know him and whether he’ll be successful with people. We owe him that much.
And we owe you that too, because a pretty yellow horse in your pasture that you can’t touch, can’t catch, can’t trim, can’t have treated for simple injuries or illnesses, or that gets scared and hops over your fence, that’s not really all that wonderful either, or is it?
Just because he looks like an endurance horse, that doesn’t mean he wants to be one. Just because he’s built nicely, that doesn’t make him nice to handle. Time will tell. Time, training, consistency, exposure, and more time.
He’s with Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy for gentling and to hopefully when he’s ready move on to a suitable home. You’re of course welcome to submit an adoption application, to inquire about him and to send him lots of happy, brave and friendly thoughts.
Ultimately Wiley will go wherever is best for him, and for that we have to put our feelings aside sometimes, as hard as that can be. This needs to be a lot more about him than about us.
It’s also a lot harder for him than for us, so he ultimately needs to buy in and want to be gentled and to like people for this to work. I can set him up for success, but I can’t “make” him succeed. I’d like to be working for the ministry of magic, but, alas, I’m not.
I shall climb off of my soap box now and let you enjoy wild baby Wiley pictures.
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