Services we can provide to groups include:

• Mentoring assistance - Navigating the state approval process.

• Mentoring assistance - Applying for grant funds.

• Logistic and coordination assistance - Obtaining horses from the state facility.

• Publicity assistance - Participation in the Adopt-a-Comstock Wild Horse world wide web campaign.

Groups must meet state requirements.

Groups must have the resources necessary to appropriately house and maintain animals taken until they are placed. These resources include:

• Appropriate pens or corrals; minimum height 6 ft, hard material (wood or pipe panels) with shelters and windbreaks appropriate for local weather conditions.

• The ability to provide sufficient water and feed for the number of animals held.

• The ability to safely manage animals while in the group's facility (e.g., people with appropriate wild horse experience, safe and humane handling techniques, etc.)

• Some form of squeeze chute or handling chute so that horses can receive proper veterinary attention, if needed, including booster vaccinations and worming.

• The ability to safely transport animals from the state holding facility in Carson City, NV to the group's holding facility.

Groups must have the ability to monitor horses placed with adopters, make at least one after-adoption compliance visit (more if problems are suspected or found), and verify that the animals have been appropriately maintained and cared for at the time adopters apply for title. Groups, as agents for the state, will be responsible for all horses until their titles are issued.

Groups are encouraged to provide after adoption mentoring assistance to adopters, or either affiliate or associate with one of the established wild horse mentoring organizations to provide after adoption support services.

Groups are expected to conduct themselves in a responsible and ethical manner that will reflect well on the state adoption program and the participating adoption organizations.

Groups may set and keep adoption fees for animals placed.

It is our intent to assist any groups that meet these requirements, and groups that are organizing to meet these requirements, by providing peer support, coordination and mentoring assistance.

Examples of qualifying programs and projects are:

• Recognized equine facilitated therapy programs.

• Demonstration farms, agricultural programs and projects including rural setting hospice and handicapped programs.

• Animal welfare organizations (subsidiary adoption agents).

• Approved educational programs (horses appropriately used as subjects for equine science programs such as horse behavior studies and teaching low resistance gentling and training techniques.

  

• Approved private trainers capable of gentling and placing horses as subsidiary adoption agents.

The same conditions and criteria apply as for bona fide adoption groups (above) wherever applicable.

Fee waiver programs and projects shall conduct themselves in a responsible and ethical manner that will reflect well on the state adoption program and the participating adoption organizations.

Fee waiver programs and projects shall be responsible for supervising any horses placed with private adopters (e.g., verifying compliance, maintaining records, submitting quarterly reports, etc.)

Operators of qualifying programs and projects may set and keep adoption fees for animals placed.

LRTC adoption fees ($125.00 per head) will be waived when the program or project meets these criteria as set forth in a formally executed fee waiver agreement.