Stefanie Schaefer

One of the best parts of life, and this Mustang journey, is not doing it alone. Having friends and mentors to talk to, work alongside, learn from and ride with is so important. I feel incredibly grateful to have several horsewomen around me whom I respect and enjoy riding and spending time with. I’m also …

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*Original audio. Sound on for explanation (pardon the wind and my accent). Try to click on the video and watch full screen so you can read the text.* Tay Martin gave all the new kids a spa day after I sprayed their manes and tails. I joke about my X chromosomes not being long enough …

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As our snow has been turning to mud and crazy winds helped dry that some, we’ve been enjoying working with these four ladies. Eclipse, Cinder, Rapunzel and Fiadh are doing well and I feel incredible fortunate to have them. Mustangs are individuals and some take more easily to the people thing than others. These mares …

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What are we looking at here? Frosty Bob’s big butt for one. Also 2 women who decided to walk 4 Mustangs – 2 from WY and 2 from CA – and 2 Shepherds for a couple of minutes to get past a scary (to us, we both don’t love narrow trails with drop offs) section …

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This was Lorena’s (2yo Twin Peaks CA Mustang filly) first time being ponied. Lorena, now Wren, has since gone home to her adopter in Michigan. I just got an update yesterday. Kiddo is doing well, turning into quite the ham, and from the sounds of it landed exactly where she needed to be. I’m happy …

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“You never get a second chance to make a first impression” – Andrew Grant Some of you know I’m a counselor in my other life. I work with kiddos and sometimes with their adults. (Un)fortunately, I’m just as feral there as I am the rest of the time. I recently met with someone who had …

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Here’s Fiadh (pronounced Fee Ah, not like the car), 2yo Twin Peaks CA Mustang filly, confronting our curtain about its audacity to blow in her face on a particularly windy afternoon. Then she walked over to me like “Did you see that???” She’d never ‘met’ the curtain before. I adore this filly. Not just because …

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Today was the first day that really felt like spring, we even saw the first couple of butterflies on today’s ride and hardly any snow. I heard a hummingbird two days ago. Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustangs Lacy, Cedar and Griffin, and the Shepherds got to explore a new area today, with lots …

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Here’s Tay Martin giving Buddy, a yearling Mustang gelding who’s been at Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy for gentling for a couple of weeks now, a good scratch. It’s funny and cute and all but the reason I’m posting it is because I think it’s important to make time for low pressure activities, things the …

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I’ve decided to let naming the new Mustangs be this evening’s problem, in favor of storytime because it’s been a while, hasn’t it? With spring in the air, green grass coming up and new (wild)life soon or already coming into the world, I’m itching to get back into the still snow covered mountains soon-ish. During …

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