What We Do
DreamCatcher Mission
DreamCatcher is committed to creating safe and enriched sanctuary environments for victimized wild and domestic horses that fosters new ways of thinking about the role animals play in society.
How Horses Come To Us
DreamCatcher takes in previously rounded up and/or adopted wild horses and returns them to a life similar to what they experinced in the wild.
DreamCatcher also takes in aged and/or retired domestic horses. Those wishing to retire a horse to DreamCatcher are required to pay a one-time fee.
Our Herd Of Spanish Mustangs
DreamCatcher was able to save a herd of Pryor Mountain Spanish Mustangs. The horses are naturally gaited with high-stepping, floating trots. Our herd is one of under a handful of privately owned intact herds in the U.S.
Do We Adopt Any of The Horses?
Because DreamCatcher is primarily a sanctuary, the only animals that are available for adoption are captive born colts and fillys that have not formed family units. Potential adoptors are carefully screened, each adopted colt or filly is given a registered name for filing in the DreamCatcher Spanish Mustang resgistry and all adopted horses must be microchipped for lifelong identification.
The Sanctuary
The DreamCatcher sanctuary is 1200 acres with another 800 leased. We have 100 acres in alfalfa/grass, a special 20 acre pasture for older horses, a smaller pasture for the very aged and large wild and open range areas for the mustangs. All aged horses receive special care and senior feed.
We do not keep horses in stalls or small paddocks for longer than a few hours each day. All domestic horses are encouraged to "just be a horse" and given the room to do so.
What Is The Real Job Of Rescue
DreamCatcher believes people can learn about their own inherent value and place in a modern world by examining the value and place of animals. As humans are brought face to face with the attitudes that facilitate individual and institutionalized abuse, neglect and slaughter of sensitive sentient beings, the challenge then becomes one of internal reformation – the process of changing human perceptions, notions and values – which becomes life acted out in its most ordinary and extraordinary way. Animals and humans are, after all, eco-allies on a finite planet.
So...Rescue, at its base, is to educate toward this internal reformation. Anything less is not worth doing.
