Mule taken by wild horses returns home from the range
CARSON CITY -- Murphy the mule is back home after being nabbed by a band of wild horses and spending 21 months roaming the Nevada range.
Jane and Jack Pearson were camping in May 2010 near Hawthorne, and had taken their own horses and Murphy on the trip.
Despite being contained by a hotwire corral, a band of horses came through their camp at night and spirited Murphy away.
Jane Pearson says she went back to the area several times and would see her beloved mule. But each time she got near a large stud would run Murphy further off.
Murphy's adventure ended last Monday, when the skinny black mule was rounded up during a Bureau of Land Management wild horse gather.
Pearson says the animal is readjusting to domestic life.
