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Wild American Mustangs
Scroll all the way down to see photos of my horses!
Love horses?
Interested in owning a part of America's past?
Now may be your last chance! Congress is changing
laws. Soon, more wild horses may be slaughtered than going lnto loving homes.
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Adopt an American Mustang!
Go to the official BLM website at...
...For Information!
AUCTION SCHEDULES
The BLM holds auctions year round in different places. To see upcoming auctions, go to:
This includes upcoming internet auctions.
See photos of my
internet adopted mustangs beneath all of this information!
There are many photos attached,
please be patient and allow them to load.
We adopted Wishes and Dancer off the BLM
Internet Auction. Dancer was a 3 year old pregnant mare, yet we did not know she was pregnant at the time of the auction.
Wishes was a 6 month old weanling when I bid on her.
They were rounded up in Wyoming. They were being held at the BLM facility
in Illinois during the auction. They were then moved to Tennessee for an auction there, however, the entire herd contracted
strangles and had to remain until the epidemic passed. I was very worried about my girls during this time, never sure if they
would live or die. Both of them came through it very well and were then transferred to S. Carolina, where we were allowed
to pick them up and bring them home. We arrived on Jim's & my 16th anniversary. What an anniversary present for me!
We paid for the girls and were ready to leave when we were approached by
a helper who asked us if we would consider adopting a very sick little filly from Nevada. She was very lame, thin and
shaggy, and had fallen in the corral and was unable to get up by herself. We were told that no one would want to adopt a horse
with a bum leg. So, we filled out more paperwork, paid her adoption fee, and took her home rather than let her go to a meat
buyer. We named her Calamity. She was the tamest of the three girls and very sweet. She never did recover, however. She continued
to lose weight no matter what we did. She finally went down for good and we had the vet euthanize her. The diagnosis was EPM,
"possum brain".
Dancer turned out to be pregnant and delivered a lovely little filly only
two weeks after we got her home. It had been raining non stop for two days when Dancer went into
labor at 2am. When she went down to foal, the rain stopped completely. It didn't rain a single drop until the filly was
born and Dancer was back on her feet. A few minutes after the umbilical cord broke, it started raining again and didn't stop
for another full day. I named her "FL Native, Who'll Stop the Rain". We just call her Rain. We are also hoping that since
she was in utero when her mother went through the Strangles virus, that she may have developed the immunities through her
mother's antibodies. No one knows for sure but it's very probable.
Rain was born a lovely chestnut color but would turn grey, and eventually
become white like her mother. When the filly was 6 months old, we reassigned Dancer to a new home which helped
greatly with the weaning process for Rain. Dancer has been trained and is now being ridden.
Rain turned out to be a CURLY coated horse! Curly horses are rather
rare. They are said to be hypoallergenic. I don't believe it though. I'm allergic to horses and she still makes me sneeze
when I brush her. She does have a very interesting coat, especially when she's wet! Really pretty!
I sold Rain to a family where she had 10 acres to roam, another horse
for company, and a young girl to love her. However, the girl and her father spoiled Rain, fed her treats by hand, and
allowed her to develop dangerous habits. I made them promise to let me buy her back if they ever did not want her. They
called when they became afraid of her. I bought her back and brought her back home. She was striking out with her
front hooves and biting anyone who got in her way. She was a very dangerous little filly.
When Rain left here, she had been worked with extensively. She was very curious,
people friendly and smart. She had been farriered twice, could lead, load, tie, have all 4 feet handled, brushed, sprayed
for flies, loved bathing and water, and had been desensitized to every object we could think of from lawn mowers to tin foil
and tarps. She was an awesome little girl. However, as smart as she was, when they started hand feeding her and allowing her
to misbehave, then became afraid of her, she learned she could get away with rotten behavior. However, since she came back
home, we worked to undo the damage and she made amazing progress. She is still a little pushy, but she has stopped
biting and striking out. She is very smart. Rain was resold to another 12 year old girl. This time I hope it will work out
for her. The family is moving to Wyoming, which is so odd since that is where she started out her life before she was born.
These mustangs are so smart and so healthy! Wishes did not have her feet
done for almost 2 years. We put a few paving stones in her pen to help wear them down, but they still grew some. When the
trainer trimmed her feet...on her third lesson...he was amazed. He said they were the nicest feet he'd ever seen. They handle
the rain, the cold, the heat, and can eat just about anything! I found out that my daughter was feeding them moldy, cobwebby
feed for over a week. She didn't know it was bad. Ugh! Anyway, neither of these girls had any problems from it whatsoever.
They are just amazing beasts! They never fail to amaze me with their beauty, their intelligence, and their stamina for life.
Oh, and the second night we had her back home, Rain cleared a 5 foot steel
panel round pen. We found her grazing in the front yard in the morning. The gate was still locked and Wishes was still in
the pen. There was no space large enough for her to fit through except over the top! She had no damage to herself. We still
don't know how she did it. She hasn't tried that maneuver again, thank God. Wishes learned how to open the chain on the gate,
so we now have to add locks to that one. These guys are so intelligent.
I had many offers to sell Wishes. I swore I would never part with her. Two
things caused me to change my mind. The first was a bad experience with a trainer I had hired to work with her. He didn't
read the signs and was careless. He pushed too hard and she pushed back. She started pumelling him with her front hooves.
I helped him out of the round pen, grabbed his stuff, etc. From that day on, she never trusted me again. She connected me
to that incident and wouldn't let me touch her. The second thing that convinced me to sell was that the second trainer I hired,
(a horse god!), told me she would never be large enough for me to ride. I had waited a long time to find out I would never
be able to ride her. I leased her to a man with 4 other mustangs, one a stallion. He agreed to breed her to his stallion (who
is over 15 hands), and I will get the foal. Meanwhile, they are working with her and her new "mommy" is a 12 year old little
girl, the man's granddaughter. They are very happy with her. I've attached one photo of her in her new home.
Anyway, here are some photos of them, from start to finish.
Enjoy!
| 2 fillies and pregnant mare we adopted from BLM. |
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| Calamity, Wishes and Dancer at the pick up and auction site in S. Carolina. |
| These were the photos listed on the internet. |
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| These were my first look at Wishes. These were posted on the internet auction for bidders to see. |
| Photos of Dancer at facility in Illinois. |
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| These were the photos I saw of Dancer, first time I saw her. These are the internet photos I bid on. |
| First time I saw Wishes in person! |
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| This is one of the holding pens at the auction and pick up site in S. Carolina. |
| This is Wishes and Calamity at home. |
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| This is Wishes' front, Calamity's butt. This was their 2nd week in their new home here in Florida. |
| This is Wishes 5 months later. |
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| Wishes is naturally gaited. She would be an awesome carriage horse. Very stylish! |
| GORGEOUS! IS THE ONLY WORD TO DESCRIBE HER! |
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| WISHES IS THE MOST ELEGANT, BEAUTIFUL MOVING, ADORABLE HORSE I'VE EVER SEEN! HER GAITS ARE AWESOME. |
| Rain shown at 5 months old. |
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| This is a photo of Dancer's little girl before she went to new home. |
| This is Rain as a yearling. |
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| This was taken after she came back here. She has since been rehomed again. |
| RAIN WITH HER TRAINER 8/06. YEARLING. |
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| RAIN HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCE COMING BACK HOME. SHE'S COMING ALONG, RELEARNING WHAT SHE HAD LOST. |
| MY WILD MUSTANGS TODAY - 9/8/06 |
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| THIS IS JEFF WITH WISHES AND RAIN AFTER A TRAINING SESSION. PUTTING THEM AWAY, OPEN GATE, LOVIN'. |
| This is my friend, Andrew, with Wishes. |
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| My trainer said I would never be able to ride Wishes as she is too small. Such a sad day for me. |
| Here is a photo of Wishes at her new home. |
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| She seems to be happy there. She has other mustangs to play with, her own stall, and lots of grass! |
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