07/25/2025
“Rescues. Mustangs. Kill pen saves.
It’s become a trend.
A badge of honor.
A romanticized idea.
🙏🏻♥️🐴
Because it takes more than just love & light and a bit of grit to rescue and rehab.
Which often leaves the horse left stuck in the cycle of being blamed, given up on and passed along again.
The rescue isn’t complete until the horse is set up to thrive. Not just survive the same way he has been, just in a new location.
If you want to help one, do it with eyes wide open.
Get educated. Get support. Get committed.
Knowledge is power and it protects the both of you. “
Rescues. Mustangs. Kill pen saves.
It’s become a trend.
A badge of honor.
A romanticized idea.
But behind every dramatic before-and-after reel, there are hundreds of horses that never got the “after.”
Because saving a horse isn’t just about pulling him from a bad place.
It’s about knowing what to do next.
It takes preparation, time, skill, money, patience, compassion, consistency, and clarity.
He doesn’t need a hero.
He needs a student,
A student of the horse,
Someone willing to learn his language and earn his trust.
Many are adopted and rescued because they were cheap. And the cowboy fantasy, the redemption arc, or the adrenaline rush of “taming the wild one” sounded tempting and rewarding.
But after initially taking on the horse, the reality sets in.
Because it takes more than just love & light and a bit of grit to rescue and rehab.
Which often leaves the horse left stuck in the cycle of being blamed, given up on and passed along again.
The rescue isn’t complete until the horse is set up to thrive. Not just survive the same way he has been, just in a new location.
If you want to help one, do it with eyes wide open.
Get educated. Get support. Get committed.
Knowledge is power and it protects the both of you.
Do it for the horse. He deserves more than just another version of being misunderstood.