Running Wild Page #3

You'd like to know what I did to

get in there, wouldn't you?

No...

Yeah, sure,

do you want to tell me?

Goodnight, Stella,

see you in the morning.

Everything's gonna be just fine.

Guys, roll camera.

Okay, your sister is

already here. You look great.

Rolling!

Meredith,

tell us why we're here.

The object of our mission

is to save these animals

and our moral and ethical

integrity is on the line here.

- All right.

- We got that.

Hey, honey.

- Thank god you're here.

- What's happening?

Honey, it's as bad

as what daddy did.

They're hurting the animals.

All right, we got 90 days

to get this horse tame enough

that someone will buy it.

Start slow. If you get impatient

or rough with this mustang,

mustang's gonna come out on top.

Just like you and chopper

in the shower, cupcake.

Hey, man, get me out of here.

Why I gotta go first, man?

Take a breath and focus on the horse,

he's more scared then you are.

He's never seen a human before.

Go on over there and try

and touch him gentle

on the muzzle

with the back of your hand.

Just like chopper.

Debrickshaw, focus!

If you can't get your

hands on that horse,

how are you gonna saddle him?

How am I supposed

to get my hand on him,

- if he keeps running around like that?

- Talk to him, calm him.

Talk to him?

Sh*t, and say what?

Just like chopper.

Not another word

out of you, Irish!

What you want me to say to him?

Think of the first nice

thing someone said to you

when you went to prison.

Say that.

Go on.

Hey, bro, hey...

Just calm down,

everything's gonna be okay.

That's it.

Hey, look, man, I

know you don't wanna be in here.

- Keep talking to him.

- You cool?

It's working, it's working.

All right, that's it.

Back off, slow.

Hey, hey, hey, look

here, man, look here.

You don't wanna be here,

all right,

and you didn't do nothing wrong,

you just got unlucky.

You just help me out here, man,

you get your sh*t straight,

maybe we can get

your ass out of here.

Maybe we both could.

Yeah, you hear me, don't you?

Mm-hm, you do.

We're gonna get out of

here together, ain't we?

You just be cool and

everything's gonna be all aces.

Just be...

Just be cool, just be cool.

Shh...

That a boy, we cool.

How does it feel

to touch a wild animal?

Aw, it's so sweet.

All right, that is

enough out of you, Irish!

It's Scottish, you arse.

Whoa!

I don't have time

for your bullshit!

If you're not gonna

be a help, you're gone!

It takes one phone call!

I'm sorry, miss Stella,

I was just joking.

It won't happen again,

I promise.

Nice job in there.

Don't pay attention to what

anybody out here is saying,

you keep it in the ring,

you'll be fine.

If I'm not mistaken,

your horse needs a name.

Aces.

I'm gonna call you aces.

What's up, buddy.

Fourteen new horses, huh?

Think you got another

monarch in the bunch?

- Oh, no, he's one of a kind.

- Sure is.

Hay is delivered

Tuesday mornings, miss Stella.

Hey, thank you, Walt.

Sounds like you could

use some glucosamine.

Those mustangs can be

predisposed to arthritis

and joint pain and glucosamine

can reverse all that.

Yeah, I have a

sanctuary for them,

kind of the love of my life.

Have we met?

Meredith parish.

I got a ranch down in Texas.

Wow. Stella Davis.

Yeah, I think you

might know my sister.

Hey, Walt, do you

have any glucosamine?

Yep, but supplements

can get pricey.

Yeah, the program

I'm working with

is on a very

restricted budget, so.

Well, that's all right,

I'll get it.

No, no, that's okay, I couldn't

possibly let you do that.

Sure you can.

It's for the horses.

In fact,

here's a few of my babies.

- Oh.

- Pretty proud of them.

Glucosamine is

pretty powerful stuff.

My horses don't look

anything like this.

Nobody takes care

of them like I do.

They don't lie, they don't

betray and when you love them,

they love you right back.

Gotta protect that.

That's what I'm trying to do.

Hey, why don't we grab lunch?

That's my cell phone.

Yeah, sometime

later in the week.

- Markent's, Noonish?

- Sure, yeah.

Okay.

Thanks, hook her up, Walt.

The wild mustang is an American icon

and should be left wild and untamed.

As the widow of a billionaire,

Meredith parish

is much more used to

traveling in private

jets or limousines,

but she's not afraid

to get her hands dirty.

Aren't they gorgeous?

Meredith owns

a giant ranch across Texas

and new Mexico and has turned

it into a horse sanctuary.

She just bought

500 wild mustangs

that wondered onto a Hopi

reservation in Nevada.

These horses

can run free on my sanctuary,

they will never be

subjected to ranch owners

using them or abusing them.

Now they can live out the

rest of their lives in peace.

It's my goal to keep

these magnificent animals

from ever becoming property.

So, are we doing

the right thing?

Come with me.

Hey, doc, thanks for coming out.

- What you got there, Bratt?

- Glucosamine.

Miss Davis wants to know if she

should give it to the horses.

Tits on a bull.

Not gonna help them,

not gonna hurt them either.

Think if you return it,

you'll get your money back?

Oh, Mrs. Meredith parish

bought these.

Meredith, of course.

Who is she?

What does she want?

She thinks all horses should be

left to run free in the wild

and she'll take on anybody she

thinks is interfering with that.

Me?

If she thinks

you're hurting them.

Look here,

that's a pocket of puss.

This fella's got strangles,

a glandular bacterial infection.

It's contagious and rampant.

No, George b...

Imagine, hundreds of horses

drinking out of one

small infected waterhole.

- Is it fatal?

- It can be.

If left untreated it'll

travel the horse's innards.

You're doing the

right thing here.

What's going on out

there is not fancy math.

All online, you look it up,

make up your own mind.

I'm not late, am I?

Have a seat.

I ordered your lunch.

- Beets are in season.

- Looks delicious. Thank you.

Any trouble giving

the horses glucosamine?

Um, I saw a vet and...

And he said they

don't really need it,

so you decided to

give it back to me.

Listen, I don't want to get

in the middle of anything,

I'm just trying

to save my ranch.

Yeah, by exploiting

wild animals.

You should have seen them

when they broke through

the fence to get onto my

property, they were starving.

I guess they were so

lucky that they found you.

So you could brand them

and geld them

and saddle them

and take away their freedom.

Well, it was either that

or turn them over to the OLM.

Those horses are done.

I'm sure, they'll work as

slaves for a couple of years

and you'll Fawn over

them as your pets.

Then they'll get old and then someone

will shoot them in the head.

I've seen what happens when

they're broken by human hands.

Why don't you just

leave them alone?

In a drought where

there's no food or water?

Where they overpopulate

and starve to death?

Exaggerations propagated

by the ranchers.

The New York times, science

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