Art,Queeup, my mustang and me. We are giving adopters in Columbus a chance to see a very tame and happy wild mustang. Art was, at the time, running the BLM adoption. I had Queeup walking around on concrete floors through hallways and with people and children all around him. Good Mustang!! This is somewhere's around 1997 or 8.

Art DiGrazia, of the BLM, ran the Butterfield facility for a number of years before being promoted to another BLM District. Each time I would visit while Art was running the place, he'd keep me laughing. I was always amazed at how healthy and happy all the wild horses seemed. In his tenure there, he really did a great job of a seriously difficult task. Jarrod has taken over and he's equally "invested" in the wild ones, so we will see a continuation and improvement on Art's good work.

On one visit, I finally got to meet Art's working mustang, "Artie". See the other picture of Artie laying down.

Artie lays down on command from Art.

And, with any luck, Art can get Artie to stand up ... but ya might be wondering about that in this picture.

Like I said, this is tough work ... this is a wild mustang?

So, if you join us at one of the clinics, you can get to do this also.

Yeah, this is tough work. Sometimes they like ya. Sometimes you can sleep on their backs .

Here's a gal who'd always wanted to touch a wild mustang and got the chance with us as we went into the actual pens. Normally this is not allowed. We handle the mustangs; we teach them, the BLM knows us for a very long time. We are able, regular people not, don't try this, you will get arrested and this likely after you'd been accidentally run over by fleeing mustangs.

Looks like a goat to me ... I was told by Jarrod that the goat was wild, came with the horses and refuses to leave ever since.

Wish I could have brought this little colt home. He followed me around for quite a while

Inside the Stallion pen, a LARGE one.  These boys enjoy running as  a group. About 50 of them take off in one direction around us, then turn around and do it again, until they are tired ... it's quite impressive.

Just released my hand as I "Clicked" having also just taught this fresh, wild mustang, to lift her feet, by using Clicker-Training and only a "release" as the reward.

Kisses? You want Kisses?