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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!
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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!
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OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN WILD HORSE GENTLING:
Photo by Dustin Gasser
GENTLING & TRAINING WILD HORSES
Wild horses are wonderfully sophisticated, intelligent social beings.
Growing up in a wild herd, the horse learns manners, sociability, respect, and a deep understanding of movement, energy, intent, and body language.
Only one thing stands between them and a loyal, lifelong bond with you: FEAR.
Bottom line is, the horse thinks you want to have it for dinner!
There are a wide range of humane approaches to gentling wild horses.
Each horse is unique, as is each horse handler. You may find that some methods work better for you and your horse than others. You may feel more comfortable with certain methods than with others. What may work best for an expert may not be useful for a beginner who lacks the experience and background to understand the techniques.
Most likely, you will, at one time or another, use all of them.
PAGES IN THIS SECTION ABOUT WILD HORSE GENTLING & TRAINING:
Gentling a wild horse includes more than just getting it to allow you to touch it. You will also need to build these skills and behaviors into your program:
Learning to communicate with your horse through pressure and release is the foundation of most wild horse training.
See left side panel for "The First Touch" DVD by Lesley Neuman. ________________
Nothing beats working with a knowledgeable teacher, in the flesh, who can talk you through things as they occur. If you can attend an "In-Person" Gentling clinic or private training with a good trainer or someone who is "a good hand with horses" - DO SO! _________________
Once you have earned the horse's trust and loyalty, they are ready to be trained just like any domestic horse. And just like any horse, the better the training, the better the horse.
An added PLUS is that Mustangs have all the wisdom and savvy learned from their life in the wild.
Even young horses with only a few months in the wild are better off for the experience!
Cliff Tipton says, “Mustangs have a survival instinct. They’ve had to struggle and fight for their food and water all their life...When you train a mustang you’re not domesticating him, you’re becoming his partner. You’re creating a bond." (Read More by following this link.)
Jerry Tindell says, "They were born into a Black Belt Family!"
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I am not a professional trainer by any stretch of the imagination. I started out with Sparky in 2001 as a rank beginner.
Like many other beginners who adopted a Mustang as their first horse - despite all the naysayers who warned that "Green on Green Makes Black and Blue" - my family and I have been successful with our Mustangs, and have gone on to successfully gentle and halter train several more.
I have shared on these pages things that I have learned that I hope will be helpful to you.
Help Dr. Patricia Barlow-Irick raise money to help her Jicarillo wild horses: Buy her ingenious "Mustang Taming Stick"
$10 Donation to Dr. Barlow's Mustang Rescue Efforts
Kitty Lauman's bamboo pole method (See "From Wild to Willing" DVD on left side panel) - if followed correctly - provides even people with little experience and a small pen a relatively safe way to start working with a wild horse.
since 4-18-2007
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Disclaimer: Horses are inherently dangerous. Use the information contained within this website at your own risk.
