This is a non-commercial, independent website, owned and written by Nancy Kerson, for the benefit of actual and potential adopters of BLM Mustangs and Burros and similar animals.
DVD or VHS (2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction!
$39.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $44.95 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!
MAX THE MAMMOTH SADDLE DONKEY
Max with Mike and me, the Saturday before Halloween, 2006
Our friend Betty Matsui rode him. 70+ miles and he never even broke a sweat - a true desert critter!
Our niece, Erin, visited in July and enjoyed her first donkey ride ever.
Max giving rides at a private party in Sonoma in June, 2007
Here's Max at the summer ParentsCan picnic, July 2007
Max at the Halloween Party
for kids with special needs.
October 28, 2006
Max's steady good nature was just the right thing for the party. The kids loved him and he was the perfect gentleman.
Max goes camping in the mountains, Labor Day weekend, 2006
In September, 2006, Max went with Sparky and Ruby, Mike and I on a camping and riding trip up in the mountains. What a trooper! He kept up with the horses just fine, and was a joy to have around.
Max with Michael Chiarello of The Food Network's "Easy Entertaining" and "Napa Style" shows, with Mike Kerson, Crystal Ward, and friends in summer of 2005
Max and Sparky in the Napa Downtown Santa Claus Parade, Thanksgiving Weekend 2004.
Saanen and I had decided to surprise Mike for his 60th birthday. We knew Mike loved donkeys, and we were concerned that he kept getting himself bucked off horses. The upcoming birthday was a big one, 6-0, so it seemed fitting that he should get something really special. We put the word out, and heard of a mammoth donkey up near Redding, CA.
Saanen went up to Redding to check him out, sent film footage of him to Crystal Ward, who evaluated him and said he would be fine, and Crystal also boarded him for almost a month until Mike's birthday.
To get Mike to Crystal's, I made up a story of how I needed to take Sparky up to Crystal's for a riding lesson.
So we hauled Sparky up to Placerville for the supposed riding lesson, and when we arrived, there was a whole surprise party for Mike, with some really good friends from the Sacramento and Gold Country areas. Crystal and Lesley Neuman had decorated Max to the hilt - clipped and painted and wearing helium balloons. We also had a great decorated cake and refreshments. Crystal did a tremendous job!
(Oh, and Sparky even got a Western Pleasure lesson)
since 9-19-2006
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