G applied again this year to participate in the Teen and Oregon Mustangs' Trainer Competition. After last year's experience she was eager and excited to have another opportunity to work with a mustang yearling and help this one be adopted by a loving forever family.
She received word on May 11th that she had been accepted into this year's competition and so we traveled to Yamhill on Friday May 20th in order to pick up her mustang on Saturday morning.
G and the other teens were required to meet for an introduction and received their "marching orders" for the competition. You could literally feel their excitement and desire to go see the horses that had been chosen for them. One change for this year is that Teen and Oregon Mustangs is now an official non-profit as a 501-c3. Therefore all donations to these ladies to assist in their training is tax deductible. When we saw the girl who would be coming home with us, we were all breathless. She is a sweetheart.
Please meet Faith. She is a yearling filly from the Stinking Water herd and it is believed that there is some draft blood in the herd. She spent her first months actually in the wild prior to being taking to the Burns facility for adoption. These round-ups are necessary to keep the herd sizes at sustainable levels for the lands. It is our hope that Faith will be adopted during the auction following the competition.
After picking her up on Saturday, Faith traveled 5+ hours to her home for the next 98 days. She rode very well and unloaded like a dream. She walked into her run and began checking it out.
In under 30 minutes Faith was accepting food from G by hand. You can see that we still hadn't moved the trailer from where we parked to unload her.
G fed Faith almost all of her first meal. She then led Faith to her water and while you may not be able to make her drink, Faith already showed a willingness to follow her leader. She drank.
Even though eating from G's hand was a big deal the fact that Faith was curious and came to G and even touched her was also a highlight.
Before we left Faith to settle in the other horses came to check out the newest member of the herd. Here is Jet saying hello. Wow, what difference a year makes.
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