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Working with Wild Horses
Second (Improved) Edition
A Handbook of
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By Nancy Kerson
Paperback $22 or
Downloadable E-Book $7.50 For more information about the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program, please call (866) 4MUSTANGS or Click HERE This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen - I am not the BLM or any other branch of government! Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros.
Please direct adoption questions to the BLM, not to me. And I sure as heck am not a Mustang car dealership! I have NO horses or burros for sale and am not interested in buying or listing or otherwise promoting your sale animals! | This website:
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VIDEOS OF INTEREST TO MUSTANG & BURRO ADOPTERS:
Kitty Lauman:
From Wild to Willing: Using the Bamboo Pole to Gentle Mustangs
More from Lauman Training available now!DVD or VHS
(2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction! $39.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $44.95 total 
Lesley Neuman:
The First Touch
Gentling Your Mustang
$45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang! 
Help for Burro adopters!
Crystal Ward
Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too! Can't do Paypal?
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1-877-345-6748
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WILD HORSE GENTLING:
 
| | Ruby's First Birthday - March 12, 2001
She's come a long way!  
Ruby and Michael: (left) in October (right) on her birthday, March 12
Is Ruby still a wild horse? Not even close! It is absolutely amazing to us how trustworthy, how kind, and how intelligent she is! The farrier describes her as "textbook" for the way horses are supposed to act when they get their feet trimmed. She just stands there quietly and lifts each foot as she is asked. Not that many domestic horses do as well! 
Ruby and Silver love their daily walk in the fresh green grass. Bringing Ruby into Silver's life has transformed Silver from an aging, failing, crotchety old bachelor to a soft and kind Foster Big Brother. He looks healthier and years younger, too! Ruby even gets him to run - hasn't done that in years.
What about that tractor? Ruby is curious - needs to check out anything different in her environment.
I always wondered what would happen if Ruby ever got loose. Would she decide to return to the wild? Would we ever catch her again? Well, it finally happened. Someone left the gate unlatched, and the horses got out. I went out side to get the ropes and halter, and perhaps a bucket of grain to lure them with, but not to worry: Ruby just came right up to me and asked for a scratch on the forehead! NEXT: RUBY GETS A BABY "BROTHER" OR: RUBY - SUMMER 2001 DAYS 2 - 5 | 6 Weeks | Fear Of Sandpiles | 3 Month "Anniversary" | Birthday! | Ruby Summer 2001 | Ruby 2002 | Ruby 2003 | Ruby 2004 and 2005 | Ruby 2006 | Ruby 2007 | Ruby in 2008 | Ruby, 2009 & 2010 |
