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Please direct adoption questions to the BLM, not to me. And we sure as heck are not a Mustang car dealership! | This website: Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 All Rights Reserved. I am happy to share, but please give me a credit when you "borrow" things off my website! Thanks! Just say, "author, Nancy Kerson www.mustangs4us.com " |
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! $49.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $54.95 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? No Problem! Just Call TOLL FREE 1-877-345-6748 (1-877-FILMS4U) ____________________ Can't do Paypal? No Problem! Just Call TOLL FREE 1-877-345-6748 (1-877-FILMS4U)
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Home Up Adopt A Mustang Wild Horse Burros! Mustang Mules Wild Horse & Burro Herd Areas Mustang Wild Horse History Mustang - Link to History How to Gentle A Wild Horse What's Next After Gentling? Mustang * Horse Colors Videos from Video Mike Mustang Links The Future? Mustang & Burro Events Lewis & Clark Mustang History, part 2 | | SPARKY, mustang colt adopted in 2001 Here's a quick photo show of Sparky, by year. For more in-depth story/web-blog, see links at bottom of the page. 2001
 Sparky at Palomino Valley BLM Corrals January 30, 2001 |  April 18, Sparky comes home; April 19, Sparky begins gentling
|  May: Sparky moves into pasture with Ruby & Silver | 2002
 |  Sparky and I begin training with Jerry Tindell | | 2003 |  Tindell "Challenges" Clinic |  November: First Ride | | 2004: |  Sparky & Nancy at Western States Wild Horse & Burro Expo August, 2004 |  CADAMA Playday Trail Course: We won First Prize!
 Benny, Sparky & Ruby are BLM Ambassadors at the Brentwood Adoption |  Santa Claus Parade in Downtown Napa |  Riding at home | | 2005: |  2005: Sparky goes to Napa Schools Farm Day |  2005: Sparky and Ruby & Benny go to Pt. Reyes - their first long trail ride - 14 miles round trip from parking lot to beach and back. | | 2006: |  2006: Jerry Tindell Riding Clinic 2006: Outstanding in our field
 2006: Tindell Driving Clinic (makeshift "harness")
|  2006: Trail riding at Skyline Park in Napa 2006: Jerry Tindell "Spook" Clinic
 2006 CADAMA Playday
| _small.jpg) Learning "Give Me A Kiss" |  2006: First Horse Camping Trip: Warner Wilderness |  Warner Wilderness: Happy Trails!
 Teaching 'Lie Down" |  Tindell Clinic: Come to the fence for mounting | | 2007: | Winter 2007:
 Sparky gets a real harness
 Giving grand-niece, Steffi, a ride |  August 2007 |  January 2007: Raye Lockert clinic and Arena practice |  Summer 2007: Little Benjamin from Singapore rode Sparky and learned what he wants to be when he grows up: a Cowboy! |  Spring 2007: Trail Riding at Skyline Park |  September, 2007: The Fearful Crossing Wagon Train Ride - 71 miles from Lovelock to Fallon, NV over the Humboldt Sink to the Carson Sink to the Carson River |  |  |  |  October 2007: "Fun With Sparky The Mustang" demo at the Longears Cele-Bray-Tion in Red Bluff, CA
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Follow Sparky's Progress: Sparky 2001 - Adoption | Gentling Sparky | Sparky Settles In | Sparky is Sick | Sparky Spring 2001 | Sparky - Summer 2001 | Sparky In School | Sparky in School, pt 2 | Sparky's First Rides | Saddle Training 2 | Sparky 2006 | Sparky 2007 Our Other Horses: BENNY (Kingsley) | Ruby - BLM Wild Mustang Filly | SILVER - half-draft | SPARKY - Mustang Colt | Dawn & Bert Burros | Max | Lewis & Clark | Sparky, Ruby & Max in the Mountains | Our Mustangs In Video | Mustangs on "The Fearful Crossing" | Pine Nut sine November 20, 2004 |