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Paperback $22 or
Downloadable E-Book $7.50 For more information about the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program, please call (866) 4MUSTANGS or Click HERE This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen - I am not the BLM or any other branch of government! Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros.
Please direct adoption questions to the BLM, not to me. And I sure as heck am not a Mustang car dealership! I have NO horses or burros for sale and am not interested in buying or listing or otherwise promoting your sale animals! | This website:
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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! $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! Can't do Paypal?
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OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN
WILD HORSE GENTLING:
 
| | The first NAPA MUSTANG DAY was held May 19, 2007, at the Napa Valley Horsemen's Association, Napa, CA. | 
| It was a great event!It was a simple idea:
Turn the public on to Mustangs and Burros through a one-day event that educates while it entertains.The components: - BLM "Mini" Adoption (in this case, 27 animals total; A "regular" adoption is usually 80 animals, so a smaller one is called a "mini" adoption)
- Entertainment:
- Live Music
- "Wild Horse Annie Story Time" with games and prizes for kids
- "Get Your Picture Taken on a Mustang" with free take-home souvenir photo in cardboard frame
- Arena Show:
- Parade of Ambassador Horses & Burros
- Arena "Acts" or Demos to showcase the trainability and versatility of mustangs and burros
- Volunteers and Ambassador Animals interacting with the Public
- Participation: Trail/Obstacle Course available all day for ambassadors to enjoy
- Gentling and Training Demos by experienced volunteers
Photos on this page are courtesy of Barbara Dilley, Becky Delaney, DogPark Don, and Nancy Kerson: 
PUBLICITY: Of course, having a good idea is one thing: Getting people there is another. We posted flyers, had the event listed on the "Calendar" section of all the local and semi-local newspapers, sent Public Service Announcements to local media, and sent notices out through various online chatboards and email newsletters. The County Supervisor for our district, Brad Wagenknecht, sent out a flyer through his email newsletter. This was all done at no cost beyond printing the flyers. BLM did a magnificent job of getting good publicity through their PR channels. I think they paid plenty. The result of all this was a huge turnout. At one point around Noon, over 450 people were counted, and that was just at one spot in time. | | The Adoption | We invite all of these horses & burros back to the 2009 Mustang Days for a special "Baby, Look at Us Now!" presentation. |  |  |  | 
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One of the halter-trained colts, trained by a BLM wrangler |  |  |  | 
Ambassador Mustangs waiting patiently while adopters sign in at the BLM booth |  |  | Entertainment
Roberta Goodin from NapaLit read stories and gave each child his or her own book from Terri Farley's "Phantom Stallion" series | 
Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys provided Zydeco Dance Music between the close of the Competitive Bid part of the adoption and the beginning of the Arena Show | | Trail/Obstacle Course |  | | Arena Show 
|  | Parade of Ambassador Horses & Burros. While the people and animals paraded around the arena, Each horse or burro and person was introduced. 
The announcer also presented educational tidbits about wild horse history, wild horse social order and life on the range, The 1971 Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act, BLM's Adopt-A-Horse Program, and the unique characteristics of some of the Herd Management Areas represented in the Parade of Ambassadors; |  | 
Patty Hyatt was too busy running the concession stand to saddle up Sage, but they did take time to be in the parade. |  James Kicker and Spirit | 
Dave Miller and Chief | 
Jill Owen and Gypsy | Volunteers and Ambassador Animals interacting with the Public
Dave Freeman and Burro Pack String | 
Jill Carr on Willow | | Gentling and Training Demos |  | Arena Shows, showcasing the versatility of the Mustang and the fun of Burros:
Prison Horse presentation | 
Barrel Racing | 
At Liberty Ground Work | 
Driving | 
Burro Pack Scramble | 
Endurance | 
Dressage | |
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