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We were in Toole Utah, near Salt Lake City. The mustangs were recently captured by the wranglers of Art DiGrazia. Art is now the director of the Butterfield holding facility (BLM), also near Salt Lake City. I have a separate page showing these horses because they were ALL so well fed, so content, and most were quite playful, that I needed to let more people see the good life led by BLM wild mustangs. Janet and Cliff Tipton, from the Intermountain Wild Horse and Burro Advisory, handled all ground work and coordination of mustangs for this event. You can not imagine how much work, running around and herding , they did every day. And please remember, we are all Volunteers, serving only the Mustangs. |
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Kristin. Daughter of Chris Ehrlon. She became bored with incessant morning meetings. So we both decided to go into my roundpen and pet the wild mustangs.
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Don't be so stuffy when meeting your wild mustang for the first few times. Get down in their clear vision, rather than forcing her to raise her neck and have the adrenaline response. Raised neck is that 'Flight or Flight' position, isn't it?
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I'm making smooth, circular gestures with the back of my hand. I'll let it pass close enough to her nose that she can get a scent. If I see she's interested in touching, then I'll linger long enough for her to do so. There's plenty of time to make 'First Contact'. If she's not interested just now, in a few minutes she will be because her initial fear of my presence is reduced after seeing that about all I want is just being near her.
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