Follow these easy steps to make money gentling a Mustang:

• Download Application
  (also be sure to read the TIP Rules & Regulations and Trailer and Facility Requirements)
  
• Send in Application
  
• Get Approved by Mustang Heritage Foundation and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
  
• Make an appointment with BLM
  
• Pick up Mustangs
  
• Gentle Mustangs
  
• Find Mustang Adopters
  
• Get Paid!! 

Approved trainers, pick up a Mustang, gentle it and find a qualified adopter within 90 days. The reward? Trainers are guaranteed $700 per horse. Qualified trainers can pick up one to four horses at a time. Facility and gentling requirements apply. To be eligible, trainers must complete an application and be approved. Trainers have 90 days to gentle the mustang and find an adopter, but the horse may be adopted after 10 days if it meets the gentling requirements. Mustangs in the TIP program must be halter broke, must be able to have each of its four feet picked up and cleaned, and must be able to load and unload from a trailer. Horses are not typically trained under saddle in the TIP program.

TIP-trained mustangs are placed up for adoption after basic halter breaking takes place. The cost to adopt a TIP horse is only $125 – the same cost of adopting an ungentled Mustang from a BLM facility! Trainers and adopters can enter into a contract for additional training services such as saddle training once the horse is adopted.

TIP trainers are responsible for all costs associated with the humane care of the animals while in their possession, including facility maintenance/repair, veterinarian care, farrier or disposal costs, and feed/grain and other needed supplements. Trainer will be paid once the horse is adopted and all paperwork is complete. Trainers must be at least 18 years old and have no prior convictions for inhumane treatment of animals or for violations under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.