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How to Catch You Horse in the Pasture
A Guaranteed Method
Book Trailer
Born Wild – The Soul of a Horse
The anxiously anticipated sequel to the National Best Seller
The Soul of a Horse – Life Lessons from the Herd
For everyone who has ever loved a horse or loved the idea of loving a horse
Book Trailer
The Soul of a Horse – Life Lessons from the Herd
From the soul of a floppy-eared dog to the soul of a horse.
“You will never look at horses the same way again.”
Here We Go Again
For those who remember Noelle and Malachi, you’ll know why the video is entitled Here We Go Again. It’s the beginning of a brand new journey with yet another pregnant mustang from the wild and her new baby. This begins at the BLM and ends in her new home. A mustang who had never willingly touched or been touched by a human.
Here We Go Again from Joe Camp on Vimeo.
Born Wild – Chapters 6 & 9 – Malachi – Our First Baby Conceived in the Wild
“I had never laid hands on an unhandled horse. Or touched a new foal, handled or otherwise. Never mind one conceived in the wild. So you might think I’d be nervous. For reasons unknown I didn’t think I was. I was just anxious. Excited. At least that’s what I kept telling myself. The appropriate term, I believe, is naive.” Thus begins Chapter 6 of Born Wild. The anxiously anticipated sequel to Joe Camp’s National Best Seller The Soul of a Horse Life Lessons from the Wild.
Born Wild – Chapters 6 & 9 – Malachi – Our First Baby – Conceived in the wild from Joe Camp on Vimeo.
Miss Firestorm
A mustang conceived in the wild, born to us. From two hours old to two years old.
Miss Firestorm from Joe Camp on Vimeo.
Relationship First!
The most amazing thing happened on this day! It reminded me why we have been so obsessive about getting the relationship right with each of our horses before anything else. Even before training.
The Soul of a Horse Paddock Paradise
What We Did, How We Did It & Why
When we first discovered that the genetics of a horse prescribe a lifestyle of living out 24/7 with lots and lots of movement we threw up our hands in frustration. We had no access to land other than a tiny plot behind the house that was virtually straight-up-and-down steep some of it totally unusable. Horses in the wild out in the Great Basin of the western United States – where their genetics evolved – travel 10-20 miles a day looking for grass forage, water, and staying away from predators. How could we even get close to replicating that with what we had to work with? But we did, all covered in this video.
Born Wild – Chapter 11 – Two Mustangs from the Wild
and their First Trip into a New Paddock
Two months ago Miss Saffron, a BLM pregnant mustang from the wild, had never willingly been touched by a human. Only those BLM folks moving her in and out of squeeze chutes and trailers. Eight weeks ago (3 days after we brought her home) she gave birth to her baby. Both of these mustangs have been nothing short of astonishing. See why.
First Romp in the Pasture
for Saffron and Stormy
A short but joyful romp across the pasture, Stormy’s first ever. And a
cute interchange from a very interested peanut gallery.
Two Dominant Mustangs
Rounds 1, 2, & 3
On Miss Firestorm’s 10-week birthday we decided to see how her mom Saffron and Noelle, both mustangs out of the wild, would do sharing a pasture; the goal being to finally get the herd all together as one, all out 24/7 with both pastures to roam. The result was a disaster. Big mistake. You might have seen the still photos on the blog but only now have I risen to the occasion of getting the video edited and up. It’s brutal. Mostly because Saffy simply would not give up, and Noelle kept coming. That was Round One. Clearly too early. Too soon. We now believe that Saffron had more than dominance on her mind. She was protecting her baby.
Back to the drawing board. Or to separate pastures in this case. For the next four-and-a-half months we rotated horses and pastures every day so that both Noelle and Saffy would have time with all members of the herd – except each other – and everybody would get equal time in the east and west pastures. What a a logistical nightmare!
We’re now up to Round Three, and they’re all compressed into a five minute video cleverly entitled: Two Dominant Mustangs – Rounds 1, 2, & 3 :).
Kathleen and I believe you’ll enjoy and might even get a little something out of it. Please let us know. And let me know if you pick up what’s unique about the music :)
Follow all three of these horses at: https://thesoulofahorse.com/blog
Benji Gets a New Baby… Horse
This is Benji and Malachi, our first baby conceived in the wild.
You just have to see it. Much fun. Almost 40,000 Views as of this writing.
Benji Gets a New Baby… Horse from Joe Camp on Vimeo.
Stormy Sits on her Beanbag
Before Miss Firestorm was a week old she was lying in my lap, then sitting next to me on Allen Pogue’s famous bean bag. Soon she was sitting all alone. Now, at three months, she’s quite comfortable relaxing for long periods of time all by her big self, often dozing off while sitting. For more on this sweet baby conceived in the wild and her amazing mustang mom visit: https://thesoulofahorse.com/blog
Why Our Horses Are Barefoot?
Joe talks about the “lightbulb” moment he and Kathleen had, and all the reasons that left them no choice but to take their horses barefoot.
Why Our Horses Eat From the Ground
Joe Camp discusses why he and Kathleen changed from feeding their horses at table height to feeding from the ground. Another “lightbulb” moment.
Benji Movie Memories
Over the years Joe has written and directed five Benji movies starring three different Benji’s. These are clips from all of them.
See if you can tell who’s who.
Benji Movie Memories from Joe Camp on Vimeo.
Mouse – Our Rescue – Two Years Later
It took six big men to wrestle Mouse into a trailer to go to Monty Roberts’ farm where we met her. She had been rescued from horrendous conditions by the Animal Rescue League of Iowa. She was under a year old. Skin and bones. Her feet looked like elf shoes. And she was terrified of people. This video is two years later.
Dancing Barefoot
A delightful music video of barefoot horses, free from cages and stalls, happy as clams, living as nature intended.
Cash Goes to a TV Studio
My cover boy Cash makes his very first trip to a TV studio. Watching the huge camera crawl all around him is watching pure trust in action.
Noelle Loaded at the BLM – Day 1
Noelle, our first pregnant mustang fresh from the wild, was loaded at the BLM facility in Reno on December 20, 2008. Camp-like I had forgotten the video camera so Kathleen shot this with her little point-and-shoot; thus, sorry, no sound. She made the trip from Reno to our (then) home in Valley Center, CA is about 12 hours, very little the worse for wear. Her baby, Malachi, was born on March 3, 2009 and her entire story is chronicled on our blog: https://thesoulofahorse.com/blog.
Don’t Ask for Patience
God Will Give You a Horse
Day 18 with our mustang Noelle who had never touched or willingly been touched by any human before coming to us. Kathleen captured this my favorite Noelle video with her little point-and shoot camera. I was sitting on a rock holding the bowl, just being silent, and still. Waiting. It’s a great lesson in the rewards of patience. And somehow just knowing that such results actually do materialize helps me with my genetic disposition to always hurry up. There’s no sound but if you can make it through to the end you’ll never forget it.
Noelle’s Progress – Day 46
On this morning Kathleen said to me, “Do you realize that you’re always saying, ‘I wonder when I’m going to be able to do this or do that with Noelle.’ Just a few days ago you were saying you couldn’t wait until you could scratch her on the neck. Seriously, just a few days! And here you are scratching her neck, her chest, her leg, her ear, her face and are you satisfied, even just a little bit? Have you taken a moment to just sigh happily and say gee this is only Day 47 and look how well we’re doing?”
Noelle’s Progress – Day 70 – Molting Not Foaling
Day 70: Noelle had begun to bag up so we were expecting any day. This was probably not the best day Noelle and I have had, but I suspect she had other things on her mind. It was an unseasonably warm 87 degrees for March (in an unusually warm California winter) and the flies (the little bitty bitey ones) and bees were bothering all of us. You’ll hear Kathleen complaining as she shoots the video.
Grandpa’s New Years Gift
My youngest son, filmmaker Brandon Camp (Love Happens), put together a lovely video of moi, the horses, and two of my grandkids over the New Year holiday. Very special.
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The story of our journey with horses (to date) is told in the two books that follow: the national best seller The Soul of a Horse – Life Lessons from the Herd and its sequel Born Wild – The Soul of a Horse.
And what a story it is as two novices without a clue stumble and bumble their way through the learning process so that hopefully you won’t have to. If you haven’t read both of these books already please do because with that reading, I believe, will come not just the knowledge of discovery but the passion and the excitement to cause you to commit to your journey with horses, to do for the horse without waiver so that your relationship and experience will be with loving, happy and healthy horses who are willing partners and who never stop trying for you. Horses like ours.
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“Joe Camp is a master storyteller.” – The New York Times
“One cannot help but be touched by Camp’s love and sympathy for animals and by his eloquence on the subject.” – Michael Korda, The Washington Post
“Joe Camp is a natural when it comes to understanding how animals tick and a genius at telling us their story. His books are must-reads for those who love animals of any species.” – Monty Roberts – Author of New York Timers Best-seller The Man Who Listens to Horses
“Camp’s tightly-written, simply-designed and powerfully drawn chapters often read like short stories that flow from the heart.” Jack L. Kennedy – The Joplin Independent
“Joe Camp is a gifted storyteller and the results are magical. Joe entertains, educates and empowers, baring his own soul while articulating keystone principles of a modern revolution in horsemanship.” – Rick Lamb – TV/Radio host – The Horse Show
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