2yo Twin Peaks CA Mustang filly Echo, the newest addition to our Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustang herd, has taken to ground driving with the same ease as everything else I’ve introduced her to so far. Ground driving is excellent riding prep, her next steps are ground driving outside of the pen, getting …
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Jun 08 2024
Steve Mantle Clinic Recap
You might have read or heard that Steve Mantle from Mantle Ranch in WY was here last week, working with me and the Mustangs here at Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy (WHOA). Steve has been training Mustangs for 25 years, does demos at Cheyenne Frontier Days every year, helps get the Meeker Mustang Makeover trainers …
Jun 08 2024
Training sessions with the Ambassador Mustangs & Cedar update
Lacy, Echo and DG Griffin, are all working on different, developmentally appropriate things. Lacy and I had a lesson with Steve Mantle at a neighbor’s arena. We focused on improving our left lead, softness, stops and bending. We got several great pointers and exercises to work on. We may feel most at home on the …
Jun 08 2024
Progress
Steve Mantle, one of the most experienced Mustang trainers in the country, has been at Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy since Monday. We’ve been working on different things with different horses and expanding my comfort zone, timing and feel so we can continue to offer even more value to more wild horses and their humans. …
Jun 08 2024
Learning…
I love learning even more than I love peanut butter and almost as much as horses. For anyone looking for an indepth, immersive packing experience I recommend Colorado Pack Company LLC ‘s “Edventure” (Education + Adventure) We spent 6 days learning about gear, tying hitches, putting together all manner of common and unusual loads, riding …
Jun 08 2024
Welcome the New Boys!
Here’s the happy (I’m trying) post I’d meant to post yesterday, officially welcoming these four handsome Wyoming Mustang geldings (no height yet, they were last measured as babies by BLM) Sorrel: 4yo from Antelope Hills WY. Tall, kind and drafty. Gus’s half brother I’m almost certain. Bay roan pinto: 3yo, facility born to a Steward …
Jun 08 2024
Cedar Update
I guess I’ve procrastinated on this long enough. Plan A was to post some happy packing post – after a very happy week spent doing all things related to backcountry packing with horses with Colorado Pack Company LLC – yesterday and then a naming fundraiser for the new Mustangs today. Plan A died during DG …
Jun 08 2024
Jail Birds
Tay Martin and I went to prison today. Again. I guess that makes us repeat offenders. So much so that the inmates are asking us about the horses from last time. And the time before. Talk about having friends in low places. I’m fairly comfortable – not in a weird way – interacting with inmates. …
Jun 08 2024
Adoption Updates
Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy ‘s mission statement reads “Helping Mustangs transition from holding pens to loving homes. Sustainably, with compassion and competence.” We don’t just gentle wild horses, we do our best to match them up with the right adopters, because we believe that there’s a lid for every pot, even the unusual or …
Jun 08 2024
Story time and Catching Up
As you may have read in last week’s post, the dynamic dun duo from our Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustang herd and I were in Pagosa Springs for a packing workshop turned total immersion experience with Gabe and his family at Colorado Pack Company LLC . I hadn’t planned on completely disconnecting from …