10/14/2025
Please share ... if you or anyone know someone who can help ...
These beautiful mustangs of the Canon City program in Colorado do not deserve this fate
A program being cut .. leaves 2000 mustangs / burros needing a new place to call home ..
Please .. sharing saves lives
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Good Day, Friends,
I am preparing this post especially for Wild Horses advocates, but I would greatly appreciate help getting the word out to anyone and everyone with a heart to care.
As many of you no doubt know, for the past 30+ years, the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has partnered with the Colorado Department of Corrections on the innovative Wild Horse Inmate Program (WHIP).
This program has provided unique vocational and rehabilitative skills to the incarcerated population while supporting the BLM's mission to manage and protect Wild Horses and Burros. Incarcerated workers at WHIP learn a variety of meaningful skills, including stockmanship, animal care practices, hoof maintenance, basic vet care, the importance of animal welfare, welding, heavy equipment operations, and “soft skills”, like responsibility and accountability.
Unfortunately, the Bureau of Land Management has chosen to cut Wild Horse Inmate Programs all across the nation, so WHIP is coming to an end. To read more, please see the official press release here: https://cdoc.colorado.gov/news-article/press-release-bureau-of-land-management-announces-the-conclusion-of-the-colorado
Regardless of why this highly-respected program is being discontinued, the more immediate concern must be the safety of the 2,000 Wild Horses currently in Cañon City prison facilities.
I humbly ask your help in circulating the below flyer and getting the word out about this last adoption event hosted by BLM in Grand Junction, from October 31st-November 1st, 2025.
With community organizing, we can still help to ensure these Wild Horses find loving forever homes. Please share this flyer as far and wide as possible.
With Gratitude,
Marlon Reis
First Gentleman of Colorado
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