The Wild Horse – Sakima’s Journey with Creative by Design

There has to be more to Life than work.

Life is more than work and Creative by Design has to have a soul and a caring beyond its major purpose of helping people sort their lives of mess and chaos.

Being part of the Creative by Design team is more than solving our client’s storage problems.

We support various projects that make a difference to Australia as a country.

Over the years, Creative by Design has supported bird and animal sanctuaries, the bushfire victims of Victoria and indigenous health initiatives in the Northern Territory.

Lynn, one of the owners of Creative by Design, is passionate about the company being about more than just business. Every little effort to change things for the better makes a difference. Small steps add up to big steps.

So this year, Creative by Design adopted a wild brumby. Why?

Lynn’s passions drive the focus that Creative by Design takes in being more than a furniture company. Horses have always been part of her life and the decision to adopt one of Australia’ heritage horses from the wild was driven by her love of horses, a family connection and the horse needed someone with time and patience as he was labelled a difficult horse with extreme flight responses to any danger.

The journey has been joyful and traumatic for both Lynn and Sakima, the brumby. After each weekend, the team would hear about the challenges and progress.

The pathos was felt by everyone when Lynn failed to come to work for three days as she searched for Sakima when he escaped into the adjoining National Park and the joy when he was found and came home.

By the challenges that Sakima has had to overcome, he has become part of Creative by Design and his journey to become domesticated is shared by all the team.

It is a wonderful story that we want to share with you, our clients. Our wild horses need support and understanding from Australians if there are to be any of our heritage horses left to carry their proud war history to future generations.

Unknown to the general public, each year thousands of brumbies are slaughtered in National Parks around Australia. Only a lucky few are adopted by caring Australians.

The rest end up at what is known in the horse world as the “doggers”. They are sent to the abattoirs to be killed for dog meat.

We can slow this slaughter by being aware of what is happening and supporting organisations like Save the Brumby who find homes for the horses that they can rescue. There are many more not so lucky and Sakima is lucky to have escaped this fate.

As Sakima learns what it means to be a domestic horse, we will share his progress on his Blog.