Petunia is incredibly smart—even above average for her Mustang heritage—curious and affectionate. For example, she managed to open the gate and escape twice in the first week I brought her home. I later heard and witnessed her pulling on the gate chain that I had since locked with a snap link. A lot of horses start avoiding the halter in the pasture when being trained, especially during initial schooling and hard pressure (trailer training, roping/desensitizing, etc.) but she is still as attentive and easy to catch everyday. For example, the video of her loading in the trailer was only two days after I had initially spent an hour trailer training her, whereas she had zero prior trailer loading training. She is very sensitive and responsive, as can be seen when I approach or barely touch her legs/feet and she immediately responds and lifts the hoof. Again, working with her feet prior to that video went from extreme uneasiness the first time, but after about a total of only 15 minutes of work is the result of what the video shows. If that doesn’t mean anything to you then fine; but anyone that has ever worked a horse knows how rare that is, especially for a mustang.

She lives with my other horse in a diverse environment of pasture, woods, creeks, and steep holler and gets good natural training/exposure.

I have only had Petunia for 3 weeks. I was searching for a companion horse for another I had just purchased (the paint), thinking I would be in Indiana for a while, but then received a job offer I couldn’t refuse across the country. As a master horseman, my mission is always to help get horses to good homes, so when I came across Petunia being held in a stall with minimal turnout in a muddy little pen and untrimmed feet, I immediately wanted to take her home and away from there. The people lied and said she was 15 hands (I could tell just from the pictures and from experience that she would be around 14) and I assumed since they had her for 1.5 years that some basic training would have happened—it hadn’t.

As always, the video speaks for itself. If you are patient and kind, Petunia will respond accordingly. She will remain perfectly still, without being haltered, for you to pick or rasp her feet, groom her, or anything reasonable. She loves managing work and will follow you around the pasture while you are mucking and generally likes when work is being done where she can muzzle and pester you and keep you from completing your task in exchange for scratches.

Petunia is a typical mustang, smaller and petite, built to survive. She is basically a big dog at this point.

Dewormed (Ivermectin/Praziquantel) 3/20/26
Vaccinated (5-way) 3/28/26

Delivery available for a fee within a reasonable distance from Bloomington, Indiana.