Feb 26 2024
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 …
Feb 26 2024
Many of you have met Tiny, if not in person then on social media. The 16yo sorrel gelding from Salt Wells Creek, WY is by several 100lbs and at least a hand the largest Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustang, and arguably the one with the biggest personality. What people typically notice when they …
Feb 26 2024
I may not be rich in the conventional sense, but to lead a life rich in experiences and people you love, there’s something to be said for that too. The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering was a blast, so was spending time with Rachel Toler . We rode horses, looked at horses, talked about horses and …
Feb 26 2024
I’m in Elko again this week, for the 39th The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and to spend time with one of my favorite people, Rachel Toler . I met Rachel during the summer of 2019. We didn’t get to chat all that much because we were busy moving cattle through thick timber back to where …
Feb 26 2024
Coming from Europe, I’ve been driving horses and ponies since I could count my age on two hands. Sled races, dragging fields, cutting grass, driving just to drive because it’s fun, skidding logs, I even drove a wedding once. I’ve never had the money for a nice horse, so I either worked my tail off …
Feb 26 2024
Removing the neck tag This is 6yo buckskin Devil’s Garden Mustang mare Luna, dam of DG Bibi who found a home a while back. Here we are, taking her tag off, a special “unwilding” ritual that makes me light up even after doing this dozens of times. It marks the transition from wild to handleable …
Feb 26 2024
Sharing space When we’re working with Mustangs, the four components of a successful session l’ve found are: Learning while moving Learning while standing Moving together Sharing space They are all important. And what’s also important is that the horse you’re working with is at least reasonably happy and comfortable. Pain, hunger, loneliness, boredom, lack of …
Jan 25 2024
Neck rope prep with an unhandled Mustang In training horses, preparation is key. Meaning that before we do something, we need to get ready to do it. Get our equipment/body/mind in the right place. What’s just as important, and unfortunately sometimes overlooked, is that we need to prepare the horse for what’s coming too. When …
Jun 08 2023
We introduced Project Littlefoot some weeks back in memory of DG Littlefoot, the coolest, friendliest and most easy-going young wildie there ever was. He was the first Devil’s Garden (DG) wild horse to join our herd. He carried the BLM freezebrand, one of the few DGs that did. He should have easily had another 20 …
Jun 05 2023
This is another one of those “get a Mustang, they said…” stories that are funny and have a lesson hiding in them after the fact but give you ulcers and grey hair throughout their unfolding. Remember a couple of posts ago when I introduced MustangMatch, a platform for people to list and find Mustangs of …