You've seen the posts. A photo of a horse, thin and dull-eyed, with a deadline stamped across the caption. "Ships Friday." "On the truck tomorrow." And something in you says — I could save that horse. Maybe you can. But there is a process between "I want to" and "I did it safely" that most people don't know going into the process. And the steps you take — or skip — in the first 60 days make the difference between a success story and a situation that's hard for everyone involved. This is the guide I wish more people had before they bailed their first horse. No skipping the hard parts. Just the real information you need to do this...
Most people think they know what wild horses mean to America. They picture the West. Maybe a cowboy, maybe a painting they half-remember from a museum somewhere. A symbol of freedom — beautiful, distant, and mostly in the past. Here's what most people don't know: the wild mustang didn't just symbolize American history. It made it. And right now, for the first time in recorded American history, there are more wild horses living in government holding pens than running free on public land. This is the story of American history that could not have been written without the wild horse. And it's the story of why losing them now would mean losing something that can never be replaced. Chapter 1:...
Her name is Sirocco. She is nearly 30 years old, which makes her our oldest wild horse at Nirvana. She moves with the slow, unhurried confidence of a horse who has been through more than us humans could ever possibly imagine. She knows where the water is and she knows where the best grasses grow.. She knows when the herd needs to move. She has been making those calls for decades. She is an Alpine Wild Horse — a group of Wild Horses most people have never heard of, from a place most people never knew existed, with a history that stretches back more than 500 years. And she is alive right now. On thousands of acres within sanctuary. With...
You love horses. Maybe you've always loved them. You see what's happening to America's wild mustangs — the roundups, the kill pens, the slaughter pipeline — and something in you says: I have to do something. And then reality hits: you don't have land. You don't have a barn. You can't adopt a horse. You live in an apartment, or a neighborhood, or a city. You are, by every traditional measure, not someone who can "help horses." Here is what I want you to know before we go any further. Nirvana Mustang Sanctuary was built for you. Not just for the horses. For you. For the person who cares deeply and has felt, for too long, like there was no...
Something happened quietly in America. No big announcement. No news coverage. No national conversation. For the first time in recorded history, there are now more American wild horses living in government captivity than roaming free on the land they were born on. That fact should stop every one of us in our tracks. Wild horses are supposed to be federally protected. There is a law — the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 — that was passed specifically to protect them. Americans flooded Congress with letters. They demanded it. And Congress listened. So how did we end up here? The answer is one of the most infuriating stories in American history. And once you know it, you cannot...
