08/06/2026
“Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them.”
~Charles Bukowski
When we attended the Piceance Basin helicopter round up in 2022, my life was forever changed💔 Although not my first, I finally understood things I wish I never knew😭
Although I’m grateful for those who document what happens, I have never taken a single picture of the horses during the round up. That year we were given a walk through in the traps😔 And it brought emotions I could have never prepared for😥
As the current helicopter round up is happening there I’ve been spending extra time with our Piceance mustangs here🥺 Because that’s what we do🩵 We help them heal after they lose everything and these horses are some of the wildest in our care😱
And many people don’t see this as advocacy and I will never understand why there are people who think what we do doesn’t matter as much as those trying to stop the round ups🤯 So we’ve stopped trying to explain. We simply do it day after day after day . . . .
Image (and haunting live audio) of the day we walked through the trap in 2022😭
