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This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen. Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros.
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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?
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No Problem!
Just Call TOLL FREE
1-877-345-6748
(1-877-FILMS4U)
 
If you don't want to buy online, Call TOLL FREE
1-877-345-6748
(1-877-FILMS4U)
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| | JUST SPEND TIME... 
Liz Cohen with Trigo - within a few weeks of adoption.
But DON'T DO THIS RIGHT AWAY! There's no substitute for spending time with your new wild horse, and giving the horse time to adjust and digest his/her new experiences with you. "Just Spending Time" is the "technique" is the most common method actually in use by most new adopters. Given time, nearly any wildhorse will make progress, will become more comfortable with you, may even bond with you, even if that is all you do. ANd, even with regular training sessions, some horses need a lot of time to digest their new experiences. Not every horse is amenable to becoming a "90 Day Wonder."Going in and out of the pen while doing daily chores, leisure time spent reading a book in a lawn chair next to the horse pen, just hanging out. S/he will learn to recognize you as someone who is not a threat. 
But perhaps even more important, you will get to know your horse on a deep level - how he reacts, how he thinks, how he lives his life and how he is likely to react to a variety of situations. You will learn to trust him, and to trust yourself with him!  
Going about daily chores of cleaning pens, delivering feed, etc., and just leisurely "hanging out" helps the horse feel safe and comfortable around people.
Be careful, though! Just because the horse has approached you does not mean that he is tame or safe to be near!  since 4-28-2006
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