Square W Ranch Quarterhorses

03/09/2024

Set your clocks forward tonight!

02/03/2024

Camille Woodall

😒😂😂😂

02/03/2024

01/24/2024

Credits to Scott Metzger Cartoons

02/08/2023

02/08/2023

So my pig decided to let herself out and go on walkabout almost half a mile away. Best way to meet the neighbors is to go around “you seen a pig?” Needless to say she wore herself out and could “barely “ walk home. She’s in piggy jail for the next few days 🫤

02/07/2023

01/25/2023

Episode 30

01/25/2023

When you don’t pay attention and let the ponies out you get to find them in the dark and make the walk of shame a half mile home in 30* weather. Thank God for good neighbors

12/11/2022

It took me getting cancer to start being this way

11/18/2022

Like my new hairdo?

09/11/2022

Full moon over the Ranch

09/06/2022

Evening sky on a Monday

08/25/2022

Intensity is a normal state for many humans. They talk about “Type A Personalities” all the time. Athletes are pushed hard to be more, more, more. More driven, more competitive, more successful.

Meanwhile, the horse, a grazing animal, has about a zero work ethic. The horse doesn’t prance around the pasture to “get fit.” If he does run around, the nano-second he gets sick of it, he stops.

So now we have this paradox, a driven animal (humans) wanting performance from a grazing animal (horses).

And so we drive them crazy, some of the time, by bringing human drives and needs to a species with absolutely different kinds of drives and needs. We read things like, “My horse has a great work ethic.” What that actually means is that the horse tolerates being pushed. He doesn’t push himself.

Driven humans project their needs onto all sorts of things, golf clubs, footballs, boats, skis, motorcycles, cars, planes, and, yes onto horses.

But those other recipients of those sometimes frantically desperate human needs, being inanimate, are immune to the forces that can create counter intensity. Not so the horse.

To be better riders, better trainers, better horsemen and horsewomen, maybe tone it down a notch. Or ten notches---

Too many humans make the horse anxious, then punish the horse for the anxiety which they humans created in the first place. There are lots of riders who ought to have a motorcycle instead of a horse.

08/21/2022

Truth

Gentle horse🐎 🥰🥰🥰