K.Moore: Blog 2- Summer Mentorship

1. List the contact name, phone number, and organization of the person with whom you volunteered.

2. What qualified this person as an expert in your topic choice?

My trainer has gentled and trained 14 wild mustangs and has trained domesticated horses as well.

3. List three questions for further exploration now that you've completed your summer hours.

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

Since I had adopted a wild mustang a little over a year ago and need help with the training process my mentor came to my barn to help and I had the ability to watch and do some of the training along side of my mentor. Even though I had done all of my horse's training to that point I wasn't getting to the point I should have been at (things like riding,saddling,trimming,fly spray, etc.). My mentor started working with us and had my horse doing somethings in less than a hour which I had been working on for a little over a year.

5. What is your senior project topic going to be? How did mentorship help you make your decision? Please explain.

My topic is going to be wild horses. Mentorship helped me with this decision since during training I would notice that my horse would react differently to new objects, one reason was because of the treatment she got after her round-up and while she was in BLM holding facilities. My mentor is also very involved in the Mustang Heritage Foundation as well as working with mustangs from the BLM. When training my wild mustang I had to understand some of the things she went through and what has caused her and many other mustangs to have a sense of PTSD.

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