On day three, Twix is moving around the pen a lot more freely. Although he's still pretty spooky and reactive, he's understanding that a good place to be is standing still, facing me. We continue to work on that as I try to make more physical contact with him. I bring out the driving whip to use as an extension of my arm. You can see him finally start to settle the more I touch and rub him with it. I've found with most mustangs, the sooner you can make contact and get your hands on them, the sooner they start to become more gentle.
Twix is a 7yo gelding from the Cold Springs Herd Management Area in southern Oregon. He was gathered in the fall of 2016, gelded, then picked out by me at the Oregon Wild Horse corrals in April of 2017 to be gentled, halter-broken and found an adopter. He now lives near Philipsburg, Montana with his new owner on a working cattle ranch.
