Where are our pony people at? This little jelly bean comes in the flavor “sweet & spicy”. She’s the coolest, hairiest, friendliest tri-colored pinto Ponystang we’ve ever met. Rapunzel is a 3yo Mustang mare, facility born to a Stewart Creek WY mare. She’s fun sized at currently 13.2hh and string tests to 13.3hh with about …
Category: Stefanie’s Notebook
Jun 09 2024
Adoptable Mustangs 1- Eclipse
*This week we’re going to showcase our adoptable Mustangs, starting with the ones that are ready to find their humans. Tay Martin and I are taking current photos and videos of everyone now that they’re shed out – short of some babies who apparently identify as llamas – and (knock on wood) mud free. I’m …
Jun 08 2024
Thank You
I wasn’t expecting the outpouring of love and support you all sent following the post about Cedar. This is a photo from last night’s sunset ride with Lacy, Gus and the Shepherds. Thinking Cedar is running in those storm clouds made me smile. Here’s part of a comment on Cedar’s post that I hope will …
Jun 08 2024
Final Cedar Update
The short version is, we said goodbye to one of our Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy Ambassador Mustangs, 2yo DG Cedar, yesterday. We being Gus and Lacy, Tiny, Echo, Griffin, Tay Martin and I. She spent her last day out grazing and running with her friends, thanks to pain meds and a boot, something that …
Jun 08 2024
Name Suggestions Wanted
The hardest part of this work is falling in love and letting go over and over again. We try to get to know and care for each Mustang we gentle the best we can, give them a solid foundation, love them while they’re here and find them just the right situation and home. The 4 …
Jun 08 2024
Ground Driving Echo
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 …
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 …