Lacy, my first branded Mustang, first TIP horse, first gaited horse I’ve ever owned, and the best horse I’ve had in my life yet, turned 9 on Sunday. We know that because she was born in holding in Cañon City to a Divide Basin, WY Mustang mare. I’m not the kind to bring my animals …
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Apr 03 2024
Unpacking
There’s always been more than one meaning to the word ‘unpacking’ and our time at the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo certainly has left me with a lot to unpack, more than just training tools, winter boots and clothes. The mares (DG Cedar went instead of Griffin at the last minute), Shepherds and I left for …
Apr 03 2024
Adding Value
The Shepherds and I made it home midday yesterday from our little adventure. We came back to a winter wonderland and more snow still falling. I got some work done and a ride in before dark, that’s what you see here. In other news, we finally decided who’s going to The Mustang Summit at the …
Apr 03 2024
Some thoughts while snowed in…
I was going to post a video this morning, that was before I got snowed in while having dinner at my friends’ house. We went from no snow before it got dark to 6+in when we looked outside a few hours later, some miles into narrow windy mountain dirt roads that don’t get plowed by …
Apr 03 2024
An ounce of prevention…
I recently read somewhere on social media – and I wish I could remember where – that the best way to fix a bad habit in a horse is to not let it develop on the first place. That’s so simple, yet at the same time so profound. I’ve seen so many horses revert back …
Mar 20 2024
Super Tuesday
Super Tuesday As many of you may have already read, Tiny, the biggest and most personable of our Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustangs is running for Mayor of Divide. Several of our quirky little towns have animals as their elected mayors, and how cool would it be if it was a Mustang? Every …
Feb 27 2024
The Sensitive Horse
People like all kinds of different horses, all for their own reasons. They all will make us better humans and horsemen and -women if we let them. I’m fortunate to have a lot of horses – all Mustangs now – in my life, many only for a short time on their path to hopefully becoming …
Feb 27 2024
The DG Kids
It’s been so much fun watching our youngest Ambassador Mustangs DG Cedar (filly, coming 2yo) and DG Griffin (colt, not quite 1yo) grow up and their personalities develop. They came to Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy last year from the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals in California. I’d never before owned a horse this young. …
Feb 27 2024
The Hook on a Stick
In the caption on a recent video I suggested not putting anything on the horse when you don’t have a plan for how you’re going to remove it. Here’s how I remove the ring rope aka neck rope as well as put on and remove the leg rope in the early stages of gentling: The …
Feb 26 2024
The Leg Rope
The leg rope is an important training tool for us when gentling Mustangs. While I’ve met a select few that understood the idea of picking up feet better without it, we use it on most of the wild ones we train and I personally do leg rope work with all of the Ambassador Mustangs, the …