Hi there! Welcome to our Wild Mustangs kids pages!
Wild Mustangs are wild horses that live in the United
States of America. Some live on santuaries and some live
on government lands operated by the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM). Both of these groups help us to survive in the
wild, especially during the winter time.
There are a lot of us Wild Mustangs that roam free, but
it wasn't too many years ago that we almost became extinct.
We don't have too many natural predetors that want to
eat us. Maybe the wolf and the mountain lion, but since
there aren't too many of those animals around anymore,
we are able to grow the size of our herds. Problem is,
our herds have grown too big and there aren't enough wild
lands to house us. So, the BLM gathers some of us up and
let's people adopt us.
We don't like being gathered up too much. You can see
some photos of us being herded into captivity. It's very
scarey for us, but after a while we start to get used
to it. Then, we go to new homes.
Going to a new home is sometimes a good thing and sometimes
a bad thing. It's good when we get to go to someone's
ranch or farm. There we learn to become tame so people
can ride us. That's how we learned to become healers.
You can read more about that here.
A new home can be bad when we're bought by the pharmasudical
companies. Those are the companies that make drugs. One
of the biggest buyers of us Wild Mustangs is the drug
companies. They buy the mares, that's the girl mustangs.
And then they get them pregnant because as weird as this
sounds, the urine from a pregnant mare is used to help
human women with menopause symptoms. And, that wouldn't
be so bad except when our foals, that's the name for our
babies, are born, the drug companies kill them. You can't
imagine how sad that makes us.
Some nice people have come to our rescue. These are the
people who are sponsoring the Route 66 events. The monies
from this event are going to help save our babies. We
don't mind being pregnant, but we want our babies to live.
Do you think you can help us? See how you can help by
clicking here ... Route 66.
