Stefanie Skidmore
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May 04 2024
DG Mustangs Update
Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy adopted 7 Devil’s Garden Mustangs from the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals for gentling and placement into suitable homes. They recently arrived and we’re thoroughly enjoying our time with them. Training and matching Mustangs with the right human partners goes a long way towards their long-term success and safety. Most …
May 04 2024
Walking with DG Griffin
Yes I’m easily entertained. By long shadows on a warm spring afternoon, mountains under a moody sky, sharing space and time with a young, developing horse. I took DG Griffin out for a walk the other day and we had some big teachable moments that I’m glad I had the opportunity to address rather than …
May 03 2024
Creating space for learning
Enjoy this pivotal and exciting (in a good way) part of DG Rohan’s second session. He’s a Devil’s Garden Mustang and came to us from our friends at the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals We’d had a few brief sniffs and nose touches before this moment. These were his first actual pets. He’s brave, curious …
Apr 29 2024
Foundation and maintenance
Enjoy some warp (Lacy) speed moments from a gorgeous snowy solo bareback ride to one of our favorite lookout spots with the princess Sunday morning before work. Solo ride in the sense that we weren’t ponying another horse, which is rare these days. Original audio because hooves in snow and pony snorts are music to …
Apr 29 2024
Turning a no into a yes
Only minutes before these photos were taken, Gus, 4yo 15.2hh Antelope Hills WY Mustang gelding who is with Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy for gentling and finding his person, panicked when he saw me on Lacy. Kelsey was leading him to the round pen for his first ponying session when he got bug eyed, snorty, …
Apr 26 2024
Introducing the Devil’s Garden Mustangs
Amidst 3rd winter (4th winter incoming this weekend) we received our long anticipated load of Devil’s Garden Mustangs from the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals : Rohan (3yo dark bay gelding), Pippin (red roan yearling gelding, Eowyn (sooty buckskin yearling filly), Elanor, Arwen, Aerin and Rosie (bay yearling fillies). Names in photos. They’ve settled in …
Apr 24 2024
Filly #5882
I don’t do a whole lot of woo and meant to be stuff but occasionally I make an exception. This is one of them. 2 adoption events at the Cañon City facility ago, back in February, I was surprised to find an entire pen of 2yo Twin Peaks CA fillies. I had never seen a …
Apr 24 2024
Asking for help
The stars of this post are Buddy, yearling Mustang gelding born in holding to a Triple B NV mare, and Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustang gelding Tiny from Salt Wells WY who’s so quirky that he’s lucky he’s cute. Here Buddy is asking Tiny not to hurt him and to help him feel …
Apr 22 2024
Outreach: Mustangs at school
When you live in a small mountain town where the mayor is a cat (true story) and deer graze in the school yard, magical things can happen. Our tiny three classroom K-8 school has a counselor all of once a week. That’s me, they call me Miss Stefanie Our admin is also my neighbor. Rural …
Apr 22 2024
Meet Rapunzel (aka Toad) the pinto Ponystang
Yesterday we were joking about this girl’s “little black soul filled with fire”. That’s what inspired these pictures. Rapunzel, aptly named, is a 13.2hh (current height, string tests to a whopping 13.3hh) 3yo Mustang mare, facility born to a Stewart Creek WY mare. She looks like a tiny, colorful Andalusian and has enough personality to …