Please note that "California BLM Adopters Assistance" is just a website - not a formal organization - maintained by volunteers, to help people and horses and burros.

WANT TO ADOPT BUT NOT SURE YOU CAN HANDLE A WILD ONE?
HIRE A TIP TRAINER!

Thanks to the Mustang Heritage Foundation, you can arrange for a TIP Trainer to do the early gentling work, at no extra cost to you!  Under the TIP program, certified trainers are paid by the Foundation to gentle and halter-train wild horses at their own BLM-compliant facilities. When the horse is ready, you finish the adoption paperwork and take the horse home. Go to the Information booth at the adoption, for information about hiring a TIP trainer or contact one of the TIP Trainers listed below. Please note that you must work through the TIP Trainer at the adoption (The Trainer must do the paperwork with BLM at the adoption, and then you will do your own adoption paperwork when the horse is ready for you). If you adopt first, before engaging the trainer, your horse will not qualify for the TIP program.

NAPA AREA TIP TRAINERS: