How to Tame Wild Horses the Old Lady Way

Three mustangs, two women and a dog.

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[patriciabarlowirick]

I do pre-adoption gentling. This was at the mustang facility, but I now train them at home.

[TheMidnadarkness]

mustangs must remain wild and free forever not in captivity because they are the symbol of freedom I can't stand wranglers taking them from their homes in the wild how does it feels to be taken from your family seeing your childrens sold same with mustangs set them free where they belong

[patriciabarlowirick]

@TheMidnadarkness, we don't get to set the policies, we are just trying to prevent them from being abused in captivity. People like you can fight for their freedom, but we will keep trying to minimize their stress and adoption failures by giving them enough training to allow them to fit into the human world.

[patriciabarlowirick]

Yes, crocheting them a stall mat would be good. Thanks for the excellent suggestions!

[patriciabarlowirick]

Thank you, Simon! Horse training wild mustangs is largely a matter of convincing them that you are a trustworthy being.

[Paniolodave]

Great method! but not in the alley, to dangerous.

[skeletonmom]

@TheMidnadarkness - I do own a mustang/quarterhorse cross. Glad someone took the time to rescue my Sonny's daddy from the west (Antonio-who is a beautiful buckskin and looks like the Disney horse Spirit), so I could have my boy today. We ride and hang out together. And, Sonny has a brother (adopted) arabian/paint named Bo. They are very close, spoiled and incredibly loved. And, my mustang is solid, smart, healthy and even tempered-I couldnt ask for a more perfect horse.

[skeletonmom]

@TheMidnadarkness - Something to think about: Mustangs are technically not wild horses. Since they have domesticated ancestors they are feral. The true wild horses of the Americas were the prehistoric (went extinct Pleistocene era-12,000 years ago) Eohippus-and died out long before the first human set foot on that continent. The Native Americans didnt have horses until the Spanish, English and others brought them over, traded or they escaped to roam.

[TheMidnadarkness]

@SaraLovesCakes sometimes people are overpopulated and we destroy animal's homes by slaughtering forests, I think this world need less human life and needs more animal life in some states. we humans must learn to not steal there habitat and the animals will do the same.

[SaraLovesCakes]

@TheMidnadarkness Overpopulation isn't good for them, either. If there are too many in the wild, they'll deplete the resources they need to survive in the wild and they'll press into urban areas, where they'll likely get in trouble (like getting hit by cars, getting into people's yards, etc.) and need to be put down anyway. It's best that some are adopted into loving homes :) that's why we round them up in the first place, to protect them.

[BarebackPixi]

you two are amazing. Do you volunteer at your local place to do this, or do you buy them and solialize them, or what?

[DarkKingdomBlade]

@TheMidnadarkness There is an over-population of mustangs at this time, it's either they go to places like this and are hopefully trained enough to be rehomed or are sent straight to slaughter or killed. Yes, they should be allowed wild but with no natural predator their numbers are rising to the point where there isn't enough land. Rather than killing them too keep numbers in line, people like these women are taking them in and finding good homes.

[TheMidnadarkness]

people needs to think before building homes because I don't want them to make houses in places where mustangs live. In Arazonia, they have acres of land for mustangs to live free only and they are not allowed to build homes in protected fenced acres.

[ArabianImages]

@TheMidnadarkness I agree whole heartedly but the mustangs are unfortunately being pushed off of their land.

[genevievedee]

@TheMidnadarkness Actually, the reason why mustangs are captured and adopted is because they're not native to this country. They have no natural predators and they're breeding faster than the grass can grow. Instead of letting them starve to death they're adopted out to loving homes and/or castrated to keep the numbers down.