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Friday, July 30, 2010
Auction Day: Calico Mountain Mustangs  Dear Readers, Ghost Dancer will be traveling with me to the Wild Horse Sanctuary in California. Shell Flower won't. I'd never been part of ANY kind of auction, before (except fictional ones!), let alone an EBay style Internet auction, but my friend Anne advised me to hang back. I made initial bids on Ghost Dancer and Shell Flower to make sure my computer worked on the Auction website, then waited 'til the last minutes of the auction to bid again. That doesn't mean I wasn't WATCHING from the minute my eyes opened Wednesday, and I noticed (so did lots of you!) that a Texas bidder -- if you're reading, wow, you have fast fingers! -- had replace me as high-bidder on both horses. My hands were shaking. My neck got stiff. I spoke harshly to Sherlock the cat when he sat on my lap and tapped the computer keyboard with a gentle gray paw. And I worried. It wasn't likely, but what if the other bidder had Bad Intentions? I decided I had to make GHOST DANCER my first priority. At fifteen years old, she was listed as a sale authority horse. BLM discourages bidders from selling such horses for "commercial purposes" but she could legally be headed for out-of-the-country slaughter as soon as she was in the wrong hands. BLM, in theory at least, is supposed to keep an eye on adoption horses like SHELL for a year. But Ghost Dancer won't be traveling to California alone :) ! At the advice of a nice woman in BLM's Eastern States office, I picked a "safety net" horse. I narrowed my choices down to mares no one had bid on. Among them, I searched for one captured on the same day, in the same place as Ghost Dancer. I found her! Little sorrel #0795, is now named Sage. Hug your horses, Terri  p.s. GHOST is 15 and SAGE is 2. Who knows? They might even be mother and daughter. Labels: Calico mountains, ghost dancer, Internet auction, mustangs, Sage, Shell Flower Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 5:09 PM 5 comments  
Saturday, July 24, 2010 Ghost Dancer and Shell Flower in PV  Photographer Cat Kindsfather captured Ghost Dancer's open curiosity -- in spite of all she's been through  Shell Flower lipping up some civilized chow  Terri telling Ghost Dancer plans for a jail break Labels: ghost dancer, Palomino Valley, Shell Flower Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 10:42 AM 1 comments
Friday, July 23, 2010 Ride along with me ?  Dear Readers, My application to bid on Calico Mountain horses during the Internet adoption has been approved! This is a bittersweet moment. Ghost Dancer and Shell Flower shouldn't have human names. They should be free. While freedom on their home range is out of reach, though, I'll bid on them, and if I'm successful, purchase their transportation to a sanctuary and sponsor them for their lifetimes. They'll have a website page for right away ; even if I'm unable to keep up with the bidding (they're glorious mares & I'm certainly not the only one who thinks so) the process will be interesting. This is a brand new experience for me, and I hope you'll ride along. Hugs, Terri Labels: bidding, BLM adoption, ghost dancer, Shell Flower Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 3:00 PM 2 comments
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Palomino Valley Tuesday  Dear Readers, Today I returned to the Palomino Valley wild horse holding corrals. Approximately 80 "special" Calico Mountain horses have been taken from the Fallon facility to Palomino Valley. Unlike my last trip there, the Calico horses have the place almost to themselves. According to manager John Neill, most of the other horses have been taken to Broken Arrow in Fallon to make room for MORE WILD HORSES which will be rounded up this summer. Shell Flower is back in the "special mares" pen with Ghost Dancer and her bald-faced, white-streaked back leg buddy. They are all alert and interested in what's going on around them, though they only flick their ears when the heavily pregnant burros bray. Best, Terri Labels: Calico mountain horses, Fallon corrals, ghost dancer, Palomino Valley, Shell Flower Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 4:28 PM 0 comments
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