Adopt a Wild Horse from your Uncle Sam for Only $125

Wild Mustang Business Card Case

From time to time, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management finds that it has a surplus of wild horses (and burros).

To reduce size of its herds, the BLM routinely holds a series of Wild Horse Adoption Events just like the one they held last Sunday at the Livermore Rodeo Grounds at Robertson Park.

Prospective buyers at the Adoption Events first participate in a silent auction, and bid for the stock they like.  After the silent auction is concluded, the leftover horses (and burros) are sold on a first-come first-served basis, for $125 each.

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Only Qualified buyers are welcome.  Just because you show up with $125 dollars doesn’t mean that get a new wild pony.   You do actually have to have the means and the facilities to care for your new adopted pet.  In fact, be warned that the BLM sends people out to your home during the first year to check on you and the horse.

But if you are a qualified buyer, this could be a neat way for you and your family to get your 4-H on.

Nationwide, the upcoming adoption events for the rest of 2009 are here:  Upcoming BLM Wild Horse Adoption Events.

The Luckiest Mustangs compete in the Extreme Mustang Makeover

Some of the luckiest Wild Horses auctioned at these events are selected to compete in an Extreme Mustang Makeover:  Dedicated Horse Trainers each have 100 days to get their wild mustang ready to compete in a series of events.  At the conclusion of the event, the trained Mustangs are auctioned off… at a price I’m sure is higher than $125.

Paulano is sad to report that due to the economy, adoptions this year are way down - about 50 percent . My understanding is that horses that aren’t bid on will go on to the next Adoption event.  After 5 events, if the horse is still not sold,  the horse either goes to a horse santuary like the one in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or someplace else much, much less desirable.

Dispense Vitamins to your new Horse or Burro with this cool Pet Med pill box

At this recent Livermore Adoption Event, only 10 out of 40 horses found new owners.   The good news is that all 6 of the Burros up for adoption in Livermore found homes and had something to hee-haw about.

So please, if you have the space, welcome a new horse or burro into your family.

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