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Wyld Dog & Pony Show

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𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗘𝗥 // 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝘖𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴 & 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘴.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Sep 24

Beatrix MRW
Pura Raza Española (Pure Spanish Horse)

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Sep 4

The best view!
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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ride with us …

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 26

Is it really National Dog Day? ☯️
#TheOtter
#IAmCoradorable

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fast forward to today … sound, healthy, and her FIRST RIDE! I am so proud of this horse.
#Triumph
#QueenBea

Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 19

It was a very slow-healing injury, and I couldn’t have saved her without the help of an excellent veterinarian and farrier, who made the therapeutic shoes and cast her injured foot for 8 months. I drove her 900 miles every 6 weeks for new shoes & x-rays.

Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 19

She is a huge, powerful, and emotional horse, which can be quite intimidating. At the same time, she is also exceptionally kind and intelligent.

Nearly one year ago, just as I was about to start her under saddle, I thought I was going to have to put her down because she broke a bone in her hoof.

Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have a pretty strict *no humans rule for this page, but this achievement warrants an exception. Here is the story —

Beatrix is a Pura Raza Española (PRE: Pure Spanish Horse) who I have raised since she was 18 months old.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is the dam for the reservoir that gives us our water. We rode completely around it today.
#Zydeco
#HorseSky
#HighDesertHorse

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 13

Beatrix MRW

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 13

Beatrix MRW learning to be led by a foot. #HorseSky #QueenBea

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 8

The cuteness of sleeping dogs is endless. #IAmCoradorable

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 3

I just have to re-post this image of Beatrix for #Stunday, since I’ve been working with her lately. Beatrix is a MASSIVE horse & her size often intimidates me, but she is really very kind. She can appear very homely in her downtime and very fancy when she is up … more than fancy, really: STUNNING.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 2

Now that I have long ago abandoned the idea of making her into something to suit me, she seems to be more of a “ranch dog” than ever — my constant companion, always quietly stationed somewhere nearby happily watching my every move and just waiting for her opportunity to tag along.

Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 2

Reba never measured up to the job I had in mind for her — she proved to be an avid wanderer and always had an unquenchable desire to nip at the horses’ heels rather than stay nearby or take on the mantle of trail boss.

These days, spinal stenosis and hip dysplasia has slowed her down just a little.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 2

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Gratitude
Subject: Reba Valentine
I rescued her from the dog pound nearly 15 years ago. I was looking for a “ranch dog” to help me flesh out my self-image as a horse person, and the Universe gave me Reba.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 1

When you sleep like you’re almost human, but luckily you aren’t. #TheOtter

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Aug 1

Gemma #TheOtter had her first mountain hike today! (5.5 miles.)

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 30

My horses are usually barefoot, but Beatrix is still in treatment for a broken bone in her hoof, and we are trying synthetic shoes on Jasper so he can grow out a better hoof. Zydeco is along for the ride. Zydeco and Jasper were excellent. Beatrix was decent 😐.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 28

Whatever you do today, make it something that fills you up! K?#EnjoyEachDay

Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 28

#TheOneThatGotAway The cattlemen in my small town got together for a little ranch rodeo yesterday. A ranch rodeo is a fun competition, a test of skill & teamwork, and also a demonstration of the hard physical work that ranchers have to do every day to tend their cattle.

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 27

of our lives …
of our relationships …
still flows.

Still. Flows.

Singing that song we’ve heard all our lives: the one we must still learn to love about the mystery and the certainty of change.

#Stunday
#EastCoastKin #TheWest #MusingsFromBetweenTheEars
#GrandCanyon
#Uplift #HorseSky

Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 27

🧵 Remembering Cynder and the Grand Canyon North Rim. Cynder is gone now as is the historic Grand Canyon Lodge. The North Rim still burns, the Dragon Bravo Fire being only 25% contained.

Beneath the ashes and the loss tho, the sometimes turquoise // often muddy waters of the Colorado …

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Wyld Dog & Pony Show @wylddogandponyshow.bsky.social · Jul 26

Today was my Volunteer Day for a NATRC (North American Trail Ride Conference) event. These riders are waiting with the cows for their lunch inch break to be over. #ThisHorseLife