A few glimpses into life with Rock from Little Colorado WY. Lots of cuddles while also teaching the 16-something hh behemoth of a 5yo Mustang gelding rules and boundaries because good manners and marketable skills are life insurance for horses. Teaching him to stand stock still while ground tied so I can trim his enormous …
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Apr 10 2026
Adopted: Commander
Our sweet and spicy, sassy and spunky, friendly and kind little red Stewart Creek WY Mustang gelding has been adopted and is now making New Mexico cuter. He was part of the Forever Branded partnership program and we gentled him here at Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Thank you for getting him there safely Kevin …
Apr 03 2026
A (not so) little Easter weekend surprise
This is – I promise – the last load of horses we brought home from the Cañon City BLM holding facility just before they closed. It was so sad. They had so many nice horses. Everyone there was kind to them and it showed. So many friendly ones. All of them well fed. We brought …
Apr 02 2026
Creek time with Spur
This was last summer, and Spur’s first outing with the pack saddle and (empty) canvas panniers. He’d worn it all before at home. It was also the first time he’d seen this much water, surrounded by scary willows at that. He handled it the way he handles everything: “This is horrible, I’m for sure going …
Apr 01 2026
Training without fear?
Someone made a comment recently about training without fear being important. I sat with that for a while. I disagree and let me tell you why. I’ve spent most of my life working with poorly trained backyard horses, horses with baggage, horses who’d gotten confusing messages from people about different things, dogs with a lot …
Mar 29 2026
What’s your life worth to you?
A solid horse takes hundreds of hours to make. You either put in the effort or pay someone to do it. Or you buy a good one, which is also paying someone else for having done the hard stuff and hoping it’s true. Those are your options, all equally valid. Lately it appears to have …
Mar 28 2026
Two Things
Two things can be true at once, often are. Holding space for both is where the challenge lies. Also the reward. What do I mean? This: We want to be around horses so they can meet some of our needs. And their needs matter too, even when they’re different from our own. Horses are sentient …
Mar 27 2026
Happy belated birthday to the horse who started it all!
Lacy, my first branded Mustang, turned 11yo on March 17th. She was born at the Cañon City BLM holding facility to a Divide Basin WY mare. We celebrated her birthday doing one of the things she enjoys most these days: Going FAST. Footage of that adventure to come. I brought Lacy home as an unhandled …
Mar 25 2026
Available Mustangs – Please help!
In very happy news, Sergeant has been adopted. He went home to the Western slope over the weekend. We’re very excited for him and his adopters! We currently have 4 incredible young gentled Mustangs looking for homes: Commander ( due to being in the Forever Branded partnerships adoption incentive program), Chaos, Remington and Valkyrie (not …
Mar 17 2026
Winter Recap
I’d like to shed some light into the gap, when our socials went quiet for a time. I’m not fond of using social media as my journal because time and place and privacy matter, but so does transparency. Here’s my compromise. This winter I shed: Saying yes to things I’m not comfortable with. Not the …