Red Dog Ranch

Morning zoomies time for the , Hooper & Timber

Different species, same obsession with eating half rotten pears off the ground 😆

Working Apple 🍎!! Nice 8 year old pony will be ready for sale soon….

The floor is lava! 😝

✨🌲Timber day 2/30!🌲✨

“What? Do I have something on my face?”

Moonboy enjoying the view after his first trail ride with us 💛

The PNW is back to its soggy shenanigans but Reaper doesn’t seem to mind

things

Never really noticed how small our BLM mustang River is till she started hanging out next to Prince’s giant self.

TFW you’re trying to go for a ride but your clingy bottle calf has other ideas 😂

I took 25 pictures and not a single one where they’re both looking at me and being normal 🤦🏻‍♀️

And then I leave early because there’s horses to feed 😂

Reaper thinks we made up this cozy stall just for him 😂

Meet the herd!! Listed in order of arrival
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1. “Hooper’s Girl (Hooper)”, 7 yo registered thoroughbred mare. Never ran an official track race but we all know she’d clean up if only we’d let her at ‘em. Red mare ears personified when anyone but her is getting loved on.
2. “Moonboy”, ~12 yo Morgan/AQH gelding who landed here through a series of unfortunate events and turned out to be a perfect pony ride pal. Thinks he’s all that (and isn’t entirely wrong).
3. “Apple”, ~7 yo Shetland gelding. You know what they say, ‘the shorter the pony the closer to Hell’. Apple is…..quite short.
4. “River”, 3 yo BLM Mustang from the Antelope Valley HMA in Nevada. Adorer of human children and merciless biter of cows.
5 (left). “Aqua”, ~22 yo paint mare. Rescued at a very low weight, gentle as can be with all creatures great and small (until there’s hay involved🫣). More kid safe than the average bicycle, but currently taking a break from work while she gets her voluptuous figure back.
5 (right). “Timber”, ~13(???) yo unregistered thoroughbred gelding. We were told he was head shy, aggressive, and hard to handle (and 5 years old lol) when he was dropped off. We were his last stop before the auction (or worse) and, plot twist, turns out he’s the snuggliest muffin on four hooves we’ve ever met. Still figuring out how treats work. Bit mom once but in his defense he was aiming for the hay and he said he was sorry.
6. “Prince”, 6 yo OTTB. Temperament = finely tuned race car or very large lap dog, mood and weather dependent. Probably the only one here who is actually as fast as he thinks he is. Newest arrival, already trying to unionize the thoroughbreds for a grain ration increase.

Should we introduce the dogs and cats, small mammals, or cows next??🧡

Did you know we also have Really Good Boys?

POV: you got their stalls all clean and ready but the kids wanna play in the rain 😂

Our barn cat Arlo diligently supervised our apple picking guests today from start to finish. Here he is blocking in a car to be sure no one forgets to pay the toll (ear scritches) before leaving 😂🩷🐯

Country moment of the day: my schoolbus stop cow friends were rotated to a different pasture and I miss them 🥺