Mustang Horses

Wild Mustang with Paint Pattern

This horse was reddish brown and white with a black and white mane.

Wild mustangs roam the western USA.  They are a beautiful animal that evolution has preserved.  In the wild it is survival of the fittest.  Go watch the movie Hidalgo if you want to see how evolution can do similar things as selective breeding.   They started out as domesticated horses, brought to the USA by Spaniards.   About 70,000 mustangs are estimated to be in the western United States.  The land can not sustain any more than 27,000 wild horses so the Buereau of Land Management of the US Federal Government (BLM) has for years had a capture and adopt program.  People can adopt these beautiful animals and train them for riding, pulling carriages or wagons, etc.  I have seen these animals after capture.  They are beautiful.  Some are a solid color like black or white or brown...and some have the "paint" pattern I drew in this first picture.


 I have seen these beautiful animals and although I know they were not native to the Western US, they are beautiful animals. By the way, if you go to Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Southern Idaho you will see that many many many years ago there WERE wild horses in the Western US. I have seen these beautiful horses after capture, waiting for adoption. They are amazing.


I drew this latest picture because of something I saw on the news yesterday.  .   .   .
Right now the funding for the BLM to capture wild mustangs and put them up for adoption is drying up.  The current proposed federal budget cuts the funding for wild mustang capture and adoption by $10,000.00.  A congressional committee in the U.S. Congress approved a bill to make it legal to sell the captured horses for slaughter meat etc.  .   .  rather than take care of the horses until they can be adopted.

 IF you are a US Citizen please consider contacting your representatives in the US Congress and push for them to restore the money for the adoption program .  Also ask them to drop the idea of selling the horses for meat or glue factories  etc.

Stallion in the Desert