Working with an unhandled Mustang | Training Tuesdays

[@rodandjudibowen5665]

Felix is gorgeous, isn't he?! Oh, and Kory is a handsome dude! 🙂🙃😉

[@topazzsky]

Thank You Kory for the essential work you put in to these horses, especially Mustangs. It's absolutely the best thing for them to learn BEFORE they leave any rescue. Their future absolutely counts on them being handleable, and even rideable! Humans in general can be quite petty as I'm sure you see all the time in rescue. Doing what's right isn't just the last act of kindness, but preparing them for the real world of humans.

[@patriciahayden8955]

Kory is wonderful with training.

[@carlabryan277]

He's got the magic touch. He amazes me.

[@stardust949]

He's handsome, young, and healthy---I hope he gets a good home with a committed trainer soon. Kory makes a great start with these unhandled horses, but he's got so much on his plate. It would be nice for Felix to move on to his next stages of learning.

[@northwoods3d]

he is a darn good looking mustang! such a pretty face and intelligent eyes. Thank you, Kory, for being so gentle in your approach. I love the way you work with these horses. That he didnt bolt out of the chute says a lot about the training method... even if he has only been handled just a little bit. Keep up the great work! I wish i could have a horse or two again, but i am afraid those days are behind me - too many physical problems these days, so i get my horse fix vicariously thru you guys and Pony Tails. =)

[@sandrajebb2790]

Same here, I sure miss the "old days"

[@kmsbanr]

I cant imagine what this boy has been through. He groans in fear and warning like a rodeo horse when its in the chute. Cory is doing supreme work gentling him and allay his fears.

[@randybutler4772]

Good work Kory. He is making progress. Thank you for sharing.🐴

[@jasminepotts9062]

His ears going every which way shows that he’s trying to understand. I love these training videos. It’s so cool to see a horse go from unhandled and terrified to confident in himself and people. I can’t wait to see that with him

[@maxine7088]

He's a beautiful horse! Kory has made some pretty good progress with him. Kory is truly a pro trainer.

[@francineherron1940]

That was a great lesson for Felix 😊 thank you Kory for being so patient with the horses.

[@CrimFerret]

The amount of progress just in this one session is pretty amazing. He's a really handsome horse and I bet he does well and ends up adopted.

[@elainaworsley470]

I love watching you training. You're correct he is a handsome boy. You have a great way with horses, Cory. 🐎

[@HughLlewellyn]

Wow, what a handsome boy Felix is. He's got a good mind. You can see the wheels turning as he figures things out. He's gonna make a great riding horse someday. Love watching Kory's calm training techniques with these scared horses.

[@EagleSoul]

I love when Félix🐎 snorts like trying to tell Kory how scared he is of " The brush". Great job as always Kory👍

[@terrifrye2803]

Felix is a quick learner, and handsome on top of that. Hopefully, he finds a for ever home shortly. Nice job Kory, on breaking the session down so it can be easily learned by horse and owner. Thank you for sharing ❤️

[@Adeline9418]

Well he's gorgeous.

[@topazzsky]

Kory, your training videos are vital and needed

[@gaylfreestone5358]

Kory I love the way you work with these beautiful animals,your love and compassion shines through with every stage,these horses are lucky to have you looking after them and Felix is gorgeous.

[@lay996]

Felix is such a handsome boy, and his eyes are so beautiful too 😍

[@sandrajebb2790]

Felix is such a handsome boy! Kory, this is one of your best!! One can almost see the connections building. Love what you do!

[@kajinsautumn9833]

He's a lovely horse! Nice to see the rubber mats on the sides of the chute. You are amazing, Kory!

[@teresalubeck8044]

Love watching Kory work with horses. Kory has the right temperament 😊

[@WriteSign]

He's wonderful... he needs to come over my way 🥰😍💓💖💞💟🖤💙💚💜

[@annatetiad.4991]

Great work with the rope and the resistance. He does need to learn for himself that the reward is the release. Thank you for reminding everyone never to wrap the rope. He is a gorgeous horse, and lucky to have you working with him.

[@trishmcgarvie5053]

Cory you are best 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@moccasinlanding]

How beautiful he is! I admire your patience, Kory.....

[@terrygreen5814]

Watching his ears. Listening to you.

[@victoriacohen3319]

Just exceptional horsemanship Kory, one day Felix will be an awesome mount, with super strong constitution, strong feet, body, sound mind & soul.. Good luck to that awesome person who buys him… With many source blessings with truth clarity love light laughter happiness joy fun play creativity adventures abundance wisdom wealth and may peace be with you all! Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 xox

[@wallymartini4274]

What a beautyful Mustang!!! Well done, Cory! Thist is the First step for Felix! Love your smooth training Everytime you do a great Job to train Horses, who are sso scared Thank you, Cory! 🐴😊

[@bcgrote]

Felix is a handsome horse. He's smart, brave, yet cautious. He will get there!

[@bettyechristain9711]

That was a beautiful experience Kory!! I am in love with Felix.

[@ruth.b.5261]

Ein hübscher Mustang und sehr gelehrig dazu.Ruhe, Gelassenheit und Sicherheit vermitteln, das lehrt Kory in jedem Training. Großartig😊😊😊😊

[@suesheldon6875]

So good kory I learn a lot just watching you you are so good with horses I have always loved horses but never owned one🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@hopalstudiosjuliehattis]

Awww Kory I have been training my puppy like that, with the same concept you were explaining. Felix has great potential. He's very smart for a 4 year old. You do an awesome job working with the beginners. 😊❤

[@LastTree]

He is a beautiful horse. I love these training vids.

[@KayGiddens-ms7fe]

Hes a very stunning Sorrell !! Props to you, Cory. You do really good work with these horses.

[@blessedfire365xgf]

A fabulous horse i can tell ❤

[@erinf4810]

Didn’t we just see this one? I swore I saw this lady week. No matter always love watching expertise with horses. Amazing work.

[@diannaleefolkers-sarber2393]

Beautiful animal, and he has alot going for him.

[@velvet5922]

Kory is awesome with the horses - so calm. You could see Felix trying to work things out. Absolutely beautiful work.

[@ecobouwen]

He is beautiful! Good job Kory!

[@akantiia]

Felix is beautiful, loved the comment "I haven't even eaten anything today, I don't know what I'd smell like." Scary things clearly 😂

[@lindag4484]

Just beautiful!

[@vickilynn1204]

He is a beauty

[@evabetlyon2693]

He is one beautiful horse..coming along nicely😊

[@memphis2375]

Very exciting to see his progress! Such a handsome boy!!

[@jeanninewriedt6150]

He's pretty

[@dreamcatcher3861]

What a beautiful proud, intelligent boy Felix is. He’s absolutely stunning. In time, he’s going to make an experienced rider, a great little horse. Thank you for giving this beautiful boy a great chance at life. It’s horrendous to think the BLM are rounding up these magnificent animals and sending them to auction where they run the risk of going to slaughter. God it’s heartbreaking. Well done Kory, this was a beautiful, gentle session to watch. I can see how much you like this boy.

[@geminidream4347]

He's actually beautiful Kory. I love his face and his kind eyes. He will make someone a very special companion if they treat him right and love on him a lot. Because they brand them like that, it doesn't help with them thinking people are not going to hurt them and they will be touchy around that area thinking here we go again. I've had a lot of experience with abused animals and if you pay attention while working with them, you'll soon be able to figure out what happened to them to cause them to fuss. Being an abused person myself I know that physical marks can be seen until they heal, emotional ones can't. So be gentle, be patient, pay attention, you'll soon find out the what and where.

[@dianebradshaw7955]

❤

[@kajinsautumn9833]

My TWH used to try to root or pull the reins out of my hand and a friend told me to just keep my hands in position, not pull or jerk on the reins, just hold with a bit of slack and when my horse tried to throw his head down and nose out, he would learn real fast to stop cause HE was making himself uncomfortable, NOT me. It took about 4 weeks or so for him to stop and it sure works! I've had him over 9 yrs. now and I had to really work with him to change bad habits from bad riders and he is AMAZING now! I've always been firm but kind and patient. Just want to add that letting them run into the pressure THEY cause is an excellent training method!

[@ellenstloukal9743]

He's WILD, for sure Wow

[@topazzsky]

It's a bit hard to get experience with a Mustang if no one will give you a chance with the first one to get experience. I owned a part Mustang, and handled and worked with abused horses so I would hope that would count if I chose this endeavor. Honestly though, I really think it best for him, because he's already at your facility and you have the equipment and people, that for his sake he should be started there. So kudos to Kory for getting him handled as much as possible, because a lot of the trauma for horses is moving from place to place constantly. No stability, so they don't learn to trust easy. Programs need to consider this and do their best to shorten the process for these guys, just because they weren't raised by humans.

[@barbaramilbradt2188]

You are an awesome trainer!! Maybe he woul d like a softer brush that doesn't pull his hair or scratch his skin.?

[@mathildetherasse2501]

Weird how such a pretty horse ended up unadopted in the mustang program

[@chantelbarrios2502]

I tried to adopt him months ago but the person on the phone said i had to be experienced with mustangs when his bio says that you could take him to a trainer- 👁👄👁

[@LUMITYmuffin]

🥳🥳🥳🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍

[@sherylalisbo9042]

2000 Summer Olympics

[@Caity_kayy]

If y’all ever get a mule can you please do a training series with it!! There’s not any good videos. Most of the videos are of trainers, just whacking their mules 😢

[@archangel807]

Get some treats...or alfalfa grass and he will follow Kory....

[@CDN_Bookmouse]

I don't agree with all of Kory's methods or approaches--I think the horses experience unnecessary stress at times--but you can see that he really cares about them and is very thoughtful in how he goes about working with them. It's not always the way I would prefer, but I'm confident that they end up as sound-minded equine citizens. I appreciate that he rewards them for trying and thinking about what he's asking or what is expected of them.

[@terrygreen5814]

Looking at the walls see some gaps. Been kicked?

[@Lynn-ux4zc]

Lots of mustangs get adopted from BLM here where I am. You might get the mustang for $25 but after one year you get paid $2000 for adopting. At one year you have to show the inspector your training progress, get the $2000, and get ownership. So how is it possible HPHS had to buy this mustang, and it is unhandled? The adopter got $2000 for adopting and training it. PS- donkeys are usually free from BLM, at least here, plus you still get paid at one year of adoption.

[@debiewers651]

If this horse is only getting worked with once a week or every couple of weeks as Kory seems to indicate, you'll never get him very far. Anyone who works with Mustangs will tell you they need daily handling and consistency. As a matter of fact this goes for any horse in training. Hit and miss training won't get these horses very far.

[@debiewers651]

@@fairygodmomma2313 obviously you know nothing about training horses or you wouldn't make such a asinine comment!

[@judyives1832]

@@debiewers651 Wow. You are so rude! Maybe it’s yourself that doesn’t understand. I retrain rescue dogs for service dogs and I’m sure it’s a bit different but there are many similarities and one thing you never want to do with an abused or untrained animal is to “flood” them. This just sets you back so far, that you are causing more damage than you are fixing! It’s not like the horse is not being socialized if it not in a formal training session! It is being fed and interacted with every day. We have much better training understanding now, than we used to have and we understand something called “latent learning”. This means that the animal continues to learn and remember after a session. It’s so much more effective to do a short train and then let the dog (or horse) do something else for a bit and then bring them back in, than it is to do a full hard training sessions. Until the animal has learned to LOVE training, you are just going to sour them. Too much training, too fast, is not the way to go with these guys. An unhandled animal needs time to process what’s happening to him and change his attitude from fear and “fight or flight” to eagerness for more contact. Horses and dogs CAN NOT LEARN!! if their brains are not relaxed enough to use their frontal cortex instead of their limbic/reactive back brain.

[@angeladupre4521]

Are his eyes blue? Or is that just my old eyes illusion???

[@topazzsky]

I have a cotton flat braid lingerie that stretches, so it doesn't pull out of your hands. I'm curious why you don't do round pen work.

[@Skye_cash_woody_dolly]

Did chance get adopted and candy

[@mariaforsstrom1931]

Can You not set them free after they are caught? The mustangs?

[@judyives1832]

No the problem is that the mustangs are on public land and the policy is to keep the numbers down by rounding up groups of horses and removing them. The authorities do not want them there. If they were released, they would just round them up again and there are many of them in holding pens, around the country, (sometimes for years), eventually the state just auctions them and the kill buyers get them. In my opinion, it’s a flawed strategy because we disrupt their natural ways of balancing their numbers and we have some better strategies, like going in and neutering and vaccinating then releasing them. That way they stay in their family groups and keep other herds from increasing to fill the territories created by removing random groups. We have done this with stray dogs in some countries and it’s very very effective. If you just keep removing them, more just move into the area. If you neuter and leave them in place, they control their territory and keep it stable. This really cuts down on fighting and injuries and wandering into other areas. A stable group will set its territory and stick to it, causing less damage to neighbours properties.

[@archangel807]

Cattle ranchers want all the horses gone because they eat the grass....they pressured for laws to remove the horses that end up slaughtered for meat.....There has never been "too many horses"......

[@addywalker477]

I was looking to adopt him he would be my first horse but I have been riding my hole life and if I did adopt him would I be able to send him to a trainer and if you see my comment can you please tell me his height he looks about 13-14hh but idk 🌸🤍

[@archangel807]

Have those poor Mustangs been gelded?

[@carlabryan277]

Beautiful little Mustang. Butt ugly name IMO . Who gives these horses their name? Felix, it reminds me of a fat short old man who smokes cigars. LOL. It actually feels like abuse to me. A horse should have a name that gives him/her pride or describe their nature or color. Maybe something endearing, but Felix??? It feels like this horse was done wrong.

[@TheresaO1]

I disagree. Felix brings to mind felines. Stealth, nimble and beautiful. Wondering what type of experience you have had with an old man named Felix in your past 😂. Regardless, to say it feels like abuse is just odd.

[@hphs]

The animals are typically named by our Facebook fans.

[@beckysmith7778]

I think the name fits him just fine beautiful horse ❤❤❤

[@jamesbonham5383]

That was my first thought, what a terrible name for this beautiful Mustang.

[@jamesbonham5383]

@@fairygodmomma2313 I’m glad that you like it, but we are all entitled to our opinion and my immediate reaction was what a horrendous name for a Mustang.

[@pinklight2754]

Anyone have advice for me? I recently purchased a mare and gelding under five years and have a 10 acre land. I’m training and they’re actually super great. Everyone keeps telling me I’m biting more than o can chew but I’m patient. They were rescues and extremely malnourished.. beat.. but they are good you can tell! Any advice would be highly appreciated. My grampa tamed mustangs for a living and we had a mare that we rode bareback until I was 10. So I have experience. Some niches would be highly appreciated.

[@hphs]

Sounds like your doing an amazing job keep it up!