Yesterday morning Tay Martin and I were having some fun with Wyoming Mustangs Lacy (middle, dun, 10yo, Divide Basin), Rock (right, bay, 4yo, Little Colorado) and Spur (left, bay roan, 4yo, Stewart Creek) and the German Shepherd boys Denali (Humane Society find, wears Rex Specs for an eye condition) and Ranger (free on Facebook). Spur …
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Mar 25 2025
Happy Spring!
It just started to warm up and now the bugs are out… Please welcome to the party: Dragonfly, 4yo buckskin Mustang mare facility born to a Stewart Creek WY Mustang mare Lightning Bug, 3yo sorrel Mustang gelding from Antelope Hills, WY Butterfly, 5yo palomino Mustang mare from Twin Peaks, CA Firefly, 2yo buckskin Mustang filly …
Mar 25 2025
Summer Dreaming
This winter has been an interesting time. We’ve been wildly busy gentling wild horses, getting adopted horses ready to go home and planning for summer. I got a new German passport (that took a year), applied for the American one (it’s almost here) and got my counseling licence after jumping through all the hoops. We …
Mar 22 2025
Adopted: Cinch
This boy found his person even before we posted him. I received a call from a previous adopter, originally inquiring about Doc, and telling me that her daughter was looking for a horse. Once I heard what the search criteria were, I suggested Cinch. The now 4yo palomino Mustang gelding from Little Colorado, WY is …
Mar 19 2025
10th Birthday Announcement & Surprise!
March 17th isn’t just St. Patrick’s Day, it’s also Lacy’s birthday. My best girl and Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy ‘s first Ambassador Mustang turned 10 years old on 3/17/25 In most cases and for obvious reasons, a Mustang’s date of birth isn’t known. Lacy however was born at the Cañon City holding facility to …
Mar 04 2025
Adopted: DG Aerin
The last and possibly spiciest of our Devil’s Garden Mustangs from last year has found her person: DG Aerin, facility born at the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals to a mare gathered from U.S. Forest Service-Modoc National Forest in California. She’s grown into a tall, elegant, spirited powerhouse of a filly who is going to …
Mar 03 2025
Happy belated Gotcha Day Lacy
February (10th I think) marked the princess’ 8th gotcha day anniversary and 8 years of gentling Mustangs for me. I’ll never forget seeing the spicy, lanky filly dart around the round pen at Great Escape Mustang Collaborative ‘s Deertrail location, just sorted out of a group of other TIP horses (remember the Trainer Incentive Program?) …
Feb 11 2025
The privilege of carrying a rider
“Hop on ’em already!” is what I often hear as soon as I get a horse halfway gentle. It’s what I see others do even in light of what I consider obvious warning signs. And you know what? I respect that. You do you. Anyone who can get a horse going under saddle is doing …
Feb 10 2025
(Un-)becoming
I’ve always struggled to define who I am. I grew up firmly planted in the ‘in-between’. In between blue and white collar worlds. In between a failing communist regime and a country trying to redefine itself. In between big, gentle old-style Warmbloods, naughty ponies, draft horses used for logging living in tie stands or stalls …
Jan 30 2025
Valentine Update
Remember the little bay filly in Oklahoma, born in holding to a High Rock, NV Mustang mare that needed both a soft landing and training that I posted about a few weeks ago? We have an update that couldn’t be better The story was that she had been adopted, not handled much and wasn’t going …