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This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen - I am not the givernment Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros. And I sure as heck am not a Mustang car dealership! I have NO horses or burros for sale and not interested in buying or listing your sale animals! |
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PAGES IN THIS SECTION ABOUT WILD HORSE GENTLING & TRAINING: |
Wild horses are wonderfully sophisticated, intelligent social beings.
Growing up in a wild herd, the horse learns manners, cooperation, respect, and a deep understanding of movement and body language. Only one thing stands between them and a loyal, lifelong bond with you: FEAR
An added PLUS is that Mustangs have all the wisdom and savvy learned from their life in the wild. Even young horses with only a few months in the wild are better off for the experience! Cliff Tipton says, "“Mustangs have a survival instinct. They’ve had to struggle and fight for their food and water all their life...When you train a mustang you’re not domesticating him, you’re becoming his partner. You’re creating a bond." (Read More by following this link.) Jerry Tindell says, "They were born into a Black Belt Family!" |
I am not a professional trainer by any stretch of the imagination. I started out as a rank beginner. Like many other beginners who adopted a Mustang as their first horse - despite all the naysayers who warned that "Green on Green Makes Black and Blue" - my family and I have been successful with our Mustangs, and have gone on to successfully gentle and halter train several more. I have shared on these pages things that I have learned that I hope will be helpful to you. | |
 Cliff Tipton with his mustang Hercules. Photography/ Maegan Burr, Tooele Transcript Bulletin Online RECOMMENDED: Cliff Tipton talks about Mustang Gentling & Training. | ||
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 Learning to communicate with your horse through pressure and release is the foundation of most wild horse training. See left side panel for "The First Touch" DVD by Lesley Neuman. | There are a wide range of humane approaches to gentling wild horses.Each horse is unique, as is each horse handler. You may find that some methods work better for you and your horse than others. You may feel more comfortable with certain methods than with others. What may work best for an expert may not be useful for a beginner who lacks the experience and background to understand the techniques. Most likely, you will, at one time or another, use all of them. | |
Nothing beats working with a knowledgeable teacher, in the flesh, who can talk you through things as they occur. If you can attend an "In-Person" Gentling clinic or private training with a good trainer or someone who is "a good hand with horses" - DO SO!
|  Kitty Lauman's bamboo pole method (See "From Wild to Willing" DVD on left side panel) - if followed correctly - provides even people with little experience and a small pen a relatively safe way to start working with a wild horse. | |
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RESOURCES ON THE WEB:
- NATURAL HORSE SUPPLY - They have a wonderful multi-page section on horse training the Natural Way. And their lead ropes are the best!
- KICKIN' BACK RANCH'S (KBR) WILD HORSE & BURRO PAGES
- EQUUISITE's Horse Behavior & Training Section
- And/Or, my pages are:
WorkingWithWildHorses-E4.pdf How to Raise Orphan Foals Horse Psychology 101 Approach & Retreat Connecting Just Spend Time Bamboo Pole Desensitizing Clicker Training Ground Work Get Professional Help Gentling Journal
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