Introduction to Mustang Mission
Hello, I’m Erin Phillips, a life-long animal lover and owner! My love for wild horses began with the “Cloud, Wild Stallion of the Rockies” documentaries I would watch with my family when I was five years old. I remember the thrill of watching wild horses race across their range in freedom, then the sadness when the whole herd faced a government roundup by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Wild horse bands (families) were separated from each other, and stallions would desperately fight to return to their mares and foals. Two stallions living out their life in freedom - unless the BLM decides to remove them. For awhile, we didn’t watch those documentaries again (probably due to how much we had watched them!), and although I always knew that wild horses and burros graced our western plains, I almost forgot about them and their struggles. Then, in 2017, I began thinking about Cloud and his family again and found The Cloud Foundation’s website. There were man...