About the Mustang
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" ~ Audrey Hepburn
Rain Dancer was born in 2003 in a wild herd out of Spring Creek Basin (Disappointment Valley) in Colorado. She was captured in 2006 with her sister Star, and they were separated as both were adopted at a BLM auction. After undergoing the roundup, "adoption", and being placed with a family, this little beauty ended up being too much for her new family to handle, and was turned the Fresh Start Horse Rescue, who ironically enough adopted Star from the BLM. Fresh Start named her Puzzle.
Rain has been living wild on the rescue's 40 acres of pinon-juniper forest for the past few years, enjoying nature and being passed up by people who are looking for a fully broke (or at least approachable) horse.
I found her via horse-welfare.org, where I was introduced to Fresh Start's website on their "rescues near you" page. I immediately fell in love her story, and I loved how honest the rescue was about her overly proud disposition. (I quote, "In the round pen, I have been as unyielding as a block of granite to you silly humans."
I had to meet her. After corresponding via e-mail with the rescue for a few weeks, I set up an appointment and drove the 4 hours to go meet the little mustang who captured my heart, and it was love at first sight!
...Well, for me anyway. Rain's pride kept her from being very friendly at first, but as the day went on, she was following me as I ran down the rail, stopping every once in a while to look at the curious little person who so badly wanted to get close to her. She finally let me, by walking up with her head and neck outreached, and stopped within an inch of my outstretched hand before turning and trotting the other direction. It was close, she just wasn't ready yet.
But she wants to be, I can tell! And I'll keep trying until I make out of her the friend that I've been searching for and she let's me become the herd mate and leader that she's needed since 2005.