Volunteer Staff Wanted

I need an assistant on this project. The assistant must have time available to update the blog, computer savy, and networking capability. It requires being able to manage photos, copy and paste horse descriptions, and share to social media. It will probably be less than 3 hours per month, but it has to be timely.

If you want to volunteer for this exciting way to help animals, send me an email patricia at mustangcamp .org

New Mexico's way of Handling Estray Horses

Right now I have five horses that were unclaimed strays. When horses are reported to the NM Livestock Board as stray, the NMLB picks the horse up. The livestock inspector contacts the owner if possible, but many times no owner can be found. After five days in holding, if no owner has stepped forward, the animal goes up for bid. The horse rescues try to bid on horses to prevent them being sold at prices that would make it profitable for the kill buyers.

I run a horse rescue. Most of the rescues are full, no one has room. But no horse rescue organization wants to see healthy horses ship to slaughter, so we all try to squeeze room and get a few to safety. My specialty is the wild ones. I take the wild ones and train them before I try to find them homes. I also train BLM and USFS mustangs and burros.

In my opinion, it is far better for the animal to be returned to the owner if the owner is taking care of it. I want to find owners and get horses back home without clogging up the rescue system. Now, really this is totally self-serving because it saves me from having to rack my brain about how to rescue some poor horse from the NMLB pens.

Purpose of this Blog

This blog was created to help get stray horses back to their rightful owners. It is meant to be very sharable. Please assist in the effort to reunite owners and animals by sharing these posts with people from the area where the animal was found. This makes a real difference in the number of animals that get sent to rescues.