Kira - 24 year old mustang mare

[zebradreams07]

Kira is the mare I rescued on Monday, in place of Summer. She's a 24 year old captive bred mustang, or so I was told - no brand or papers. Very sweet old gal, slightly underweight and needs her teeth floated, but otherwise in very good health. Her feet are hard as rocks. She rides great in a hackamore (saddle optional), and as I found out today, still has lots of go! We did an hour of fast paced trail riding and she worked up a good sweat, but was still ready to go when I was cooling her down. She's just what I needed to settle Tae (my 3 y.o. BLM mustang) down, and teach him the ropes. She was free with no strings attached because the owner couldn't afford to feed her.
Here's a couple pictures, I'll take more at some point:

[coconut]

Oh she's adorable!!
I'm so glad I got to hear here story tonite.

Congrats & Happy Trails to you both

[zebradreams07]

More pictures from yesterday:








I found out that she's quite the old grouch. I went riding with a friend yesterday, and every time Kira got near her pony's head she would make nasty faces at him, laying her ears back and threatening to nip. Then we went back to her place. Her old Arab gelding has the run of the yard, and came up to see Kira. He leaned over to sniff her neck, very politely, and with no warning she spun around and kicked in his direction - and guess who was in her line of fire? Yep, I have a nice bruise on my leg now. Nothing major, but we definitely have some work to do on ground manners.