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Bella and Me |
I read in the Back Country Horsemen of America magazine that you were looking for updates on BLM adopted horses. Here's my update. I adopted the now-4-year-old gelding named Sunny last November from Canon City Prison Training Facility, green-broke from the Inmate Program. Sunny is originally from Wyoming. My wife and I belong to the local SAR (Search and Rescue) groups, mounted and not mounted. As such, I have been training him for riding and packing missions. Sunny is by far the most sure-footed horse in the high country for his age compared to all the domestic horses (mostly Quarter Horses) I have owned so far. We live in Durango, the southwestern part of Colorado, where 90 percent of all rescue missions are in steep and rocky terrain. Since Sunny is still a very young horse, I have not used him on actual high-country rescues yet, but I have used him on plenty of trainings where he did wonderfully. We are also in the process of continuing his training and education as a scenting horse (just like scenting K9s). Sunny and I went to a scenting clinic this past April, and I am proud to say that he did best of all the horses; that is probably part because of my preparation for the clinic, as well as Sunny's upbringing in the wild. According to the clinician, mustang horses do consistently well during scenting classes. My wife and I look forward to being able to use Sunny on search-and-rescue missions. It’s such an important job, and it only helps to have an animal as talented as a mustang on the trail.
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Official Newsletter of the National Wild Horse and Burro Program
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