Tag Archives: mustang

Wild Horse and Burro Images Available

Posted by Ann | on May 24, 2008 | Posted in News | Also tagged , , , |

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Adopt me!

I have posted photos for sale from the Wild Horse & Burro Festival. Congratulations to all fifteen horses and burros who have new adoptive families!

Thinking like a horse

Posted by Ann | on May 20, 2008 | Posted in Trip reports, Way out west | Also tagged , , , |

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Mustangs at the Cedar Mountain Horse Management Area, Utah

Last week at the wild horse gentling workshop, I learned that when horses are beginning to understand a new task, they make chewing motions with their mouth and…

Won’t somebody love me?

Posted by Ann | on May 16, 2008 | Posted in Trip reports | Also tagged , , , |

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Mustang foal in a BLM short-term holding facility

This little one has a better than average chance of getting adopted, because people, unbelievably, will choose horses based on coloration rather than personality or conformation. The white on…

Day 2 with the mustangs

Posted by Ann | on May 15, 2008 | Posted in Trip reports | Also tagged , , , |

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Wild horses in their paddock at Butterfield Canyon

The difference in the horses’ demeanor at second day at the Festival of Learning‘s mustang gentling is striking. They still blast out of the trailer like uncrated Tasmanian…

Burro whisperers

Posted by Ann | on May 13, 2008 | Posted in … and another thing … | Also tagged , , , |

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Wild burro and me (Canon G9, ISO 1600, photographed by a participant with my camera)

I saw some amazing animal-trainer interactions today at the Intermountain WIld Horse and Burro Advisors’ Festival of Learning: a wild mustang…