"Curious Aria"
She kept walking toward me with this look of curiosity. She'd take a few steps, watch me, take a few more steps, watch, more steps and watch. She was so curious. She was probably wondering "What is that thing she is holding that keeps clicking?"
I love Aria's story. Aria is the foal of Alexandra, one of Misun's mares. Misun and his band are all from the Red Desert in Wyoming. But Aria isn't exactly from the Red Desert. Mare Alexandra was in BLM holding pens for two years before Return to Freedom was able to get her out through the mustang adoption program, to reunite her with Misun and his band. Alexandra was released in the San Luis Obispo Sanctuary and a few months later, little Aria was born! Misun is gelded, which is the policy when the BML rounds up mustangs. They geld the stallions. So apparently, the BLM had mistakenly placed a stallion in with the mares in the holding pens and he didn't get gelded (at least not for a while). As the story goes, many who adopted mares that year got surprise foals and Aria is one of them!
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