Chica (Will be leased for spring)

Chica is a 3-year old 11.3H Mustang Pony mare and is available for lease/possible permanent adoption to a pre-approved home only. She is halter trained and has now been started as a saddle/riding pony and will make an excellent youth horse or for Pony Club. Chica was initially halter trained through the BLM program that selects a small number of horses to be specially trained by correctional inmates in their Colorado holding facility. With her gentle personality, amazing trust of people and wonderful “joy of life,” Chica will make a fantastic partner for a special child or children. She is well started in her groundwork and has a beautiful gait.

NEWS! New for Adoption: Small black mare, approximately 19-20 years of age; sweet and gentle. Excellent for a child just learning to ride, a true beginner or a small, older person needing a great starter horse. This wonderful small black horse is a perfect Christmas gift for a child, for your grandchildren, or for a super beginner.

Also: 4 Well-trained Riding & Packing mules with lots of trail experience, about 20 years old, now available for adoption. In addition, we need to find homes for about a dozen halter trained 5 & 6 year olds with about 60 days training.

These horses are in need of immediate homes! Please Call 406-880-0683 - Ask for Janet (Horse Haven Montana)

Apple - Adopted!

GREAT news!  Apple, was lucky enough to have a visit from two human Angels who immediately fell in love with her when she nickered a cheerful greeting, licked their hands like a dog and gently took almonds out of their palms.  They are now off to Quality Supply to buy her a winter blanket and supplies to wrap her hock to help keep it warm.  Her previous owners will be delivering her to her new home this afternoon.  Her old owners are delighted and her new ones are too….so this story has a happy ending.      

Lucky

Our first "rescue" was Lucky. While she initially needed reassurance that she would not be all alone and left to fend for herself, once we paired her with our mini, she began the bonding process to both horse and human. As she learned that daily feedings would be the norm and not the exception, she began to relax and just live life like a normal horse, a very funny one we might add. Then came some tune up training and riding time in an effort to understand what she knew and what she was capable of.

Happy to report that Lucky is now living a very contented and well fed life on the ranch with her new best friend, a teenage boy who picked her above all others, to be his pal. Joseph told us he loved her personality, “she’s funny,” he said, and now Lucky and Joseph spend lots of quality time together every day in ground work or just "hanging out" having fun. Lucky loves her other equine companions too and will soon be going on trail rides with the whole family in warmer weather. Congratulations Joseph on finding your best new equine gal friend!

Cody

The best way to describe Cody was gentleman extraordinaire. Cody had been extremely well cared for throughout his life but as a wilderness pack-horse and turning 21, he just couldn’t keep up on those long, arduous rides anymore. With a little soreness in his back legs, we knew he could still make a perfect beginner horse and confidence builder and that’s the home he found. With other geriatric equine pals and a mom who is learning to ride with her young daughter, Cody has found the best home for him and his new family has fallen in love!

Angel

True to her name, Angel is a little girl’s dream pony. An Appaloosa POA, Angel was donated to Horse Haven Montana to ensure that we would find her the best home for her needs and training. We’re happy to say, Angel is living the life of equine luxury and making a 9-year old New Mexico girl very happy. A match made in heaven, Angel and her new human pal named Tiger are getting to know each other on a beautiful ranch with other horses and gentle, slow trail rides, exactly what both the little girl and the little pony were looking for. Happy Trails!