and which would shorten mustangs’ lives, if left untreated here.
For equine therapy, the mustangs teach new skills to teens:
to get a halter on a horse requires that trust exist,
to lead the horse—another level, walking willingly.
These mustangs sense the feelings of the teens and may resist.
So teens will learn their feelings and their doubts affect their lives,
when mustangs are the partners rather than psychiatrists.
These horses may share friendship, after trust is slowly earned,
and help to form new memories, that teens can build upon.
Whatever obstacles that may have blocked success before
become less emphasized, since horse and human have a bond,
with boundaries, communication, gentling former trends.
These horses bring the nineteenth century to modern friends.