Don Shaw has successfully adopted horses from Elm Creek, "We adopted a mare and a colt 14 years ago about and she broke out great. They have no bad habits if they haven't been around people very long — you don't have to fix the bad habits. They said, If they got any, they know where they got them from and you're the only one to blame so that's one thing I liked about that."

But it'll take more than a year before Don tames his wild horses, because you can take a mustang from the wild a lot easier than you can take the wild out of a mustang.

Shaw has some tips on taming the adopted horses: "You talk to them before you stick your head around the corner. You just don't pop your head around the corner because that is what a predator does. Anything that sneaks up on you and sticks their head out is a predator. You just don't do that. So you talk to them, they know your voice. It's the first thing that they know so talk to them and yell at them or anything you want. They know you're coming — got their attention. Then they see you coming and they put your voice to this body then they're not afraid of you no more. And you start from there and you work your way up." Though Don recently had his stallion gelded it's still dangerously unpredictable.