🕊️ DON’T CRY FOR ME, MY WHOLE LIFE WAS WILD AND FREE.
We are sorry to inform everyone that our beloved Faith, one of the oldest Salt River wild horses, has passed on. But instead of being sad, we invite you to celebrate her beautiful long wild life with us.

These days, there is something rare and amazing about a wild horse being born free, living free, lovingly raising 8 offspring, growing old in freedom, and passing peacefully in the home she knew.

It is literally why we do what we do. Faith was managed humanely, which means that she did not need to continue bearing foals in her older days. PZP fertility control gave her that break, and we know it contributed to her living a few more quality serene years.

Sweet Faith passed on her own, and from what we observed, quite peacefully. She was lethargic, but her heartbeat was not high and she did not appear in severe pain or distress. Her lead stallion, Rascal/Citrine, defended her from other stallions until the very end, and our hearts go out to him for his loss.

Faith outlived 3 of her own offspring, but still has 5 offspring in the herd, which she had with Wisdom and later with Champ. The adorable foal in this picture by SRWHMG Rick Blandford, is Serenity, born in 2019, now a healthy 7 year old mare. We had already left her “open” for future offspring, which we are so glad about.

🐴 How old was she exactly? The first photographs we have of Faith, date to 2005, where she was already a fully grown mare in them. We therefore assigned her an approximate birth year of 2001, although she could have been born much earlier. So Faith lived to be at least 25 years old, possibly older, because her teeth certainly showed very old age. In 2014, Simone produced and released a short documentary about the plight of the Salt River wild horses, and Faith and Wisdom were center stage. You can watch it in a link in the comments!

🌿 This is what protecting wild horses and managing them humanely is all about: giving horses like Faith the right to live their entire lives in freedom. Faith was never chased by helicopters, separated from her babies, or loaded onto a slaughter truck. She also never felt the pain of a whip, the pressure to perform, or the confinement of a 12-by-12-foot stall. Instead, she knew nothing but pure freedom, living her life exactly as she chose to.

Faith will stay in her home and go back to the earth, just as nature intended. So if you happen to come across her body, plesse don’t be sad, but celebrate her beautiful wild and free life.

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🕊️❤️RUN FOREVER FREE, FAITH! 🐎
Thank You, SRWHMG.

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