Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

• I go to her barn sometimes and others she comes to me to give a lesson to my mustang. If I am at her barn I usually just watch her working with the horses and sometimes she will have me work with the horses as well. If she comes to my barn she will spend half the time working with my mustang and the other half working with both my mustang and I.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?  

• My old riding instructor introduced us when I was thinking about adopting a mustang since she has done it many times.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

• I would rate my comfort level a ten since I have been working with her for over a year now. This helps when working with a horse because I don't feel embarresed to ask questions.

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

• This interveiw helped me understand my mentors background with horses in general and about the BLM program that I didn't understand/know before. I feel like I need to work on more open ended questions because some of the answers were short.

interveiw link

https://soundcloud.com/kiley-moore/interview-2

Interview 2

Interview with Molly Jenks

1.       How long have you been working with the mustangs?

·         February of 2010.

2.       How did you get into working with the mustangs?

·         Well the economy had slowed down a lot, really slowed down and I had extra time. So I just decided I would give it a try. Honestly since it was in my hometown Norco, I just decided it wouldn’t  hurt to apply and when I got excepted I thought it wouldn’t hurt to get a horse. Then the rest is history, truly I had the time to devote because I knew it was going to be more time than just training a regular horse and since my business had slowed down so much, I knew I had the time.

3.       How did you hear about the mustang competions?

·         I had read about it in different publications and of course being in Norco the competion was in Norco, they  had really put out a ton of flyers and in the horse trader and stuff because the competion was in Norco, they had really tried to I think campaign to get Norco people to do it. So I had pretty much heard about it through Facebook, western, horse trader, because at the time I was not on their email list so mainly through social media is how I found out about most of it.

4.       When you were doing your first mustang did you have anyone helping you?

·         Nope all me. Even though it was the first mustang I had ever done, at that point I had been training horses for 15 years, so I just did what I knew to do.

5.       What mustang is your most memorable?

·         I would say Yeager since he was my first one and really not that I am overly, I don’t really believe in, well I hate to say that I don’t believe in destiny, but there was some reason that that horse was chosen for me and how he has become such a huge part of my life. So I would say the Yeager would be my most memorable mustang because he was my first one. Then out of the rest of them I would say that my second most memorable would be Pendleton who I sold in Texas in 2011. So he was, Yeager was the first one, I got Jake for a client, and then Pendleton. Yeager definitely takes the cake and Pendleton would be a really close second.

6.       Did Pendleton challenge you more?

·         Oh yes, oh yes. Pendleton is what they call a third striker, so he had been passed over for adoption and the competion that I did with him is more, well it is an invite only competion and instead of being able to apply for it. So Mustang Heritage invites trainers to compete in the Mustang Magic which is in Fort Worth every year. So that is because they give more challenging horses in that competion, they want to make sure that there isn’t any not quite as advanced people trying to train these horses because they are more challenging definitely. He was definitely more challenging, I was not on him until day 45 out of 100. Where I was on Yeager on day 14 so he was much more challenging

Link to audio

https://soundcloud.com/kiley-moore/interview-2

Title: Blog 9 - Advisory Prep 3

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person (I have completed the interview, I have scheduled the interview, I have not scheduled the interview, etc).

• I completed my interview with my mentor on October 17th.

2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic.  Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons.   

• I am going to focus more on the aspect of training wild horses.

3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next month to gain more research depth?  Where will you go to get them?

• I am looking into different types of training and how they work. I have been looking around at different trainers and the methods they use.

4. Write down a possible EQ.  Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers.  At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process.

• What are the key factors that will result in safe training session with a wild mustang?

Blog 8: Independent Component 1 Proposal

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• I would like to volunteer at a horse rescue and work with the trainer that is teaching the horses that humans can be trusted. I would most likely just watch the trainer working with the horses and will explain the process to me. I would also do some chores around the rescue like mucking out stalls.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I would write entries on a google docs about what I did/saw that day with how long I was there.

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This will help me with understanding how trust helps build a positive future and outcome for a horse with a negative encounter with humans and how a negative experience will effect a horse for the rest of their life.