Last year GEMS rescued Maia, a wild mustang mare from the Delta holding facilities that had sustained an injury possibly during a BLM round up. She had to have her eye removed while in holding and there was little hope that she would have been adopted until GEMS came to the adoption event and adopted her. I knew this mare while she was free on the range and I am eternally grateful to GEMS for giving her a safe home. This sanctuary is top notch in all aspects of mustang life on and off the range. Thank you for all your hard work and devotion.
Have you ever, in your lifetime been able to make a difference, to intertwine the past and present, that's what a Mustang adoption did and the Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary accomplished. It was an adopted Mustang yearling, a young girl barely 12 years old and a new world to navigate through. The Mustang forced to leave a family and home once seen as family, only to learn family takes on a whole bigger dimension. Thus a Mustang, a curious girl together with patience, time and friendship, created a bond, memories, and character that wasn't known prior. Not even a smart phone, Ipad, or social media outlet could deliver the newfound life lessons for a youth. Only a young girl and her determination to train and domesticate a once wild Mustang, to be her Mustang made her present and future, into a difference. Her young friends were in awe and eagerly shared their stories to other friends and parents about a friend who has a Mustang that was once wild, and now she could touch it, brush it and even got it into a trailer! While this eager 12 year old girl transitioned a mustang, she too enveloped life skills within herself; patience, trial and error and to seek out knowledge. Ha even the Mustang unknowingly was learning and an equal adoration for each other is visibly seen. Her Mustang friend now whinnies for her after school and eagerly practices new tricks. He will someday become her riding companion. Their pasts entwined, making their today a forever future full of hope and knowing, with perseverance, trial, error, diligence they will forever hold new memories. Their todays are better days, the past is the past, and the future glimmers just like the twinkle in a Mustangs eye, and his girls.