Gentle vs. Gentled

Our goal when working with Mustangs at Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy is to help each horse get to the point of being both gentled and gentle.

Gentled, meaning they know the basics of being handled and have skills to carry them forward.

Gentle, meaning they trust and accept humans and enjoy being around us.

We can’t make a horse be gentle, that’s an attitude shift that must come within.

For some, being gentle comes before being fully gentled, and vice versa.

Both are important for once wild horses to thrive in their new homes and lives. If we have one without the other, we’ll eventually hit a wall in their training and dangerous situations can arise.

Chief, 4yo sorrel pinto Arapaho Creek WY Mustang gelding, on the other hand is by nature a gentle soul. He begs for attention and walks away from his food just to be with humans.

He’s so eager to get along that learning skills comes easily for him. A horse like that still needs us to teach him the skills required for him to thrive with a human partner

For Nash, 4yo grey Antelope Hills WY Mustang gelding, learning the skills came easier than the internal shift to accepting and craving human interaction.

Being gentled only got him so far, becoming gentle is doing the rest. He is pictured looking very relaxed, enjoying some people time with our intern Kyle ..

Both geldings, along with several other incredible wildies, are available for adoption.

Sometimes a horse can be gentled in mere weeks and take months of handling to become gentle. Some horses are gentle and struggle to learn certain skills.

The timeline for each horse is different. The end goal is the same: To find just the right homes for Mustangs that are both gentled and gentle.

We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located in Guffey, CO. We send horses to approved, suitable homes across the country.

Thanks to your support, through donations, volunteer work, sharing our posts about adoptable Mustangs and following us on social media, we can continue to help wild horses on their time, not ours.

If you’re looking to adopt or for ways to help us help wild horses, check out our website www.wildhorseoutreach.org

Training halters & leads: Rowdy’s Ropes

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