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Our mission is to rescue and rehabilitate at-risk or discarded animals, to connect those animals with people, and to promote healing for animals and people through the horse/human relationship.

Rafe said this about Trigger after he was adopted: “Trigger has been such an amazing addition to our family! He is such ...
14/06/2024

Rafe said this about Trigger after he was adopted: “Trigger has been such an amazing addition to our family! He is such a good teacher for the kids, being careful to make sure they are safe but also pushing them just enough to keep them learning. And he has definitely enjoyed bossing the mares around in the pasture and chasing them off his senior feed!” 5 of 6

Check out our story to see Trigger with the Pery family.

Trigger reminds us all that age is just a number. Even though Trigger passed away in 2016, his legacy lives on at WTR. T...
14/06/2024

Trigger reminds us all that age is just a number. Even though Trigger passed away in 2016, his legacy lives on at WTR. Trigger reminds us to look out for the senior horses who have so much love left to give.

Karen used to describe Trigger by saying “He was like an old sports car left getting dusty in someone’s garage. He didn’t look like much, but once we got him cleaned up and running again he was so much fun!”

By supporting senior horses like Trigger, we can ensure they live their golden years with the dignity and joy they deserve. Every donation helps us provide the care and comfort the golden oldies need. 6 of 6

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14/06/2024

Angi shared some of the issues that make life more difficult for senior horses,

“Pain management is a big one. Sometimes they need extra massage and PEMF so they feel not as cranky from pain. Determining when is the time to let go based on quality of life. Allowing them to have fun in turn out without over doing it and becoming in too much pain. Sometimes they have no teeth and need to eat just soup. I strongly encourage people to look past the age of a horse and if it belongs in your herd give it that chance. They will change your world completely!” 4 of 6

“He belonged here as a ranch horse and there is a hole now in that herd of forty horses. The hole is Trigger shaped. It ...
14/06/2024

“He belonged here as a ranch horse and there is a hole now in that herd of forty horses. The hole is Trigger shaped. It was filled by a horse that would never hurt anyone but was also not quiet under saddle. A horse full of opinions. A horse who thought he could breed the mares even though he was an ancient gelding. A horse that would take his rider where HE felt he wanted to go and who would rear and lope sideways with Karen because he knew she could ride it. A horse that had a heart that would never say never.” 3 of 6

The day after we said goodbye to Trigger, Angi shared this: “Today there is a hole in our herd where a Trigger used to b...
14/06/2024

The day after we said goodbye to Trigger, Angi shared this: “Today there is a hole in our herd where a Trigger used to be. One less crunchie bucket. One less horse to yell at for chewing on the wood fence. The horses all knew he was going. Trigger had the heart of a two year old and a body of a horse that lived in the time of Jesus. I didn’t know how sad it would be to look in his pen today and not see him. He wasn’t my special horse, like he was to Karen, but he was special.” 2 of 6

As we continue our senior spotlight on Trigger who passed away in 2016, we are sharing some words from Angi Murray who l...
14/06/2024

As we continue our senior spotlight on Trigger who passed away in 2016, we are sharing some words from Angi Murray who loved him at Lifesavers Rescue and even more when he joined the herd at Wrong Turn Ranch. “He had sass that kept him alive longer than his body would have without that strength in spirit. Also he only gave enough trouble as a person needed and never enough to get them in trouble, he took care of the tiniest ones.” 1 of 6

Angi giving Ellie a lesson on Trigger in 2014
13/06/2024

Angi giving Ellie a lesson on Trigger in 2014

Trigger took great care of all of his riders.
13/06/2024

Trigger took great care of all of his riders.

Look at the difference between the day Trigger was adopted and his last adventure out at the beach. You can see in how h...
13/06/2024

Look at the difference between the day Trigger was adopted and his last adventure out at the beach. You can see in how he carries himself that he knew how special he was.

It was love at first sight when Karen Pery saw Trigger at Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue. She adopted him knowing his time...
13/06/2024

It was love at first sight when Karen Pery saw Trigger at Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue. She adopted him knowing his time as a senior might be limited, but the three years they shared before he took his last steps on June 13, 2016 were truly golden.

Sharing memories of Trigger's time at Wrong Turn Ranch in honor of the sixteen seniors currently living out their best lives with us in Somis.

Have you ever loved and lost a senior horse? Consider making a tax deductible donation in their honor to support the golden oldies at Wrong Turn Ranch.

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20/07/2023

The adventures of Puff.

20/07/2023

Silly mare on a trail adventure around the ranch.

Reverie is looking for a person of his own to either lease or share his life with. He says his perfect human would be on...
02/05/2023

Reverie is looking for a person of his own to either lease or share his life with. He says his perfect human would be one that is an intermediate rider (he has tons of go!) and would like to have long trail rides or start some endurance with him. He is here being conditioned for his first endurance ride. He is a good one. This gelding is friendly, energetic, and playful.

Flutters is back to work in preparation for some endurance riding. She looked much better the second time riding around ...
02/05/2023

Flutters is back to work in preparation for some endurance riding. She looked much better the second time riding around the ranch. She has SO much energy that it always surprises me when something this big can move that much!

The before and after photos of the defluffing of Dorito. 🤣Dorito is really happy that he has figured out how to let me s...
30/03/2023

The before and after photos of the defluffing of Dorito. 🤣
Dorito is really happy that he has figured out how to let me stand behind him and scratch his butt with both hands. He still gets a bit worried and has to leave every once in awhile but mostly he is just in heaven. He also LOVES the curry comb. I did most of it while he was not haltered but put the halter on just for the training sake.

28/03/2023

This was her first saddle and I am SO proud of her! Baby Aria is growing up fast! She is just three this year so all of this is preparation for next year when she starts to have a rider on her back. Before this I had sat the saddle on and off her back a few times but she really just didn't care. We make sure to have a horse or two in the round pen with them for the first saddle so they have someone to take comfort from. We will start ponying Aria out on trail so she can learn the trails and get some light conditioning without a rider this year.

20/03/2023

So this day's ride didn't go at all accordingly to plan but isn't that endurance?! Saturday's ride started with Debbie on Kaya, Kaileb on Josiah, Rafe on Orlando, and Will on Butterball. In the start Kaileb and Debbie turned around (more on this later) and Orlando threw a shoe so Will ended up ahead of Rafe. When Rafe came into camp walking Orlando (they did about 6 or 7 miles on foot) we borrowed a rasp and hoof nipper, cleaned up Orlando's hoof and fit it in Kaya's boot, and sent them back into the desert. Alone. First time ever....... 😁I am SO proud of them both.

This is my favorite photo of all times. Catalina and Impulse after their first 50 mile ride together. What a great job t...
20/03/2023

This is my favorite photo of all times. Catalina and Impulse after their first 50 mile ride together. What a great job they did! Impulse was VERY strong and ready to go back out afterwards.

This horse! It took three tries before he was able to complete a ride, the first ride I wasn't there and he ran away wit...
20/03/2023

This horse! It took three tries before he was able to complete a ride, the first ride I wasn't there and he ran away with his owner for 7 MILES before even slowing down. His owner was REALLY ouchie from hitting the back of the saddle and chose to pull. The second day of the ride this last weekend Kaileb rode out but was not looking forward to having to pull on him all day so he turned him around and came back into camp. The next day we started out behind the start (about 15 minutes) plus Kaileb was feeling much stronger from getting a day of rest and was ready to help Josiah succeed. I was on Kaya for support and we had a LOVELY ride in the rain. Kaileb rode Josiah very well and got him through the ride nicely with some decent speed. Yeah!!! Next ride for all of us is Montana De Oro. I can't wait!!!

He is ready for the snaffle bit now 😁and a grown up K.C. He got his teeth floated last month and now he can start carryi...
09/03/2023

He is ready for the snaffle bit now 😁and a grown up K.C. He got his teeth floated last month and now he can start carrying the bit and learning to ride in it. This little gelding came in from Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue and they have lots of future endurance horses there waiting for someone to adopt and take to a trainer to get started (this one is already adopted). These horses are SO brave and strong. Please consider adopting a horse through one of the rescues that we often work with here at Wrong Turn Ranch.

Artemis working on stuff with Aleesha.
09/03/2023

Artemis working on stuff with Aleesha.

Western Mojave XP ride finished..... It was a beautiful ride despite the weird place it was held at. I mean, what exactl...
07/03/2023

Western Mojave XP ride finished..... It was a beautiful ride despite the weird place it was held at. I mean, what exactly is Valley Wells and why do they have a golf course out in the desert?
The ride had snow capped mountains, wild burros, a rock waterfall in the middle of nowhere, lovely trails to ride on just the perfect texture for your horses feet (I think we could have ridden with our horses barefoot because it was so lovely), and as always we were well fed at lunch. Lilia was riding the 50 with Jojo so we didn't get to actually ride with her but she brought over some apple sauce bread cake that Abby and I were happy to eat and not share. What a great adventure!
The next XP ride in California (Cuyama) will be the last XP ride done in our state and I have to say I am SO sad. Dave and Annie have done a great job keeping a lively camp and a well fed group of riders each ride I have been to. I have to admit I have whined a little bit at a normal ride when I learned that they did NOT have a lunch break and there was no Annie making sandwiches to keep us all going. I mean I am food motivated and needed those to keep me happily riding out from a vet check. 😅 I learned to pack sandwiches in my water bag on other rides.
The fact that so many XP rides are multi day rides have given us reason to bring a ridiculous amount of people and horses to the rides. I mean who doesn't want to ride for 3 or 4 days each one done on a slightly greener youngster. 😜
Seriously though, I love this group of people that show up at the XP rides and the amount of fun they all have. Thank you Dave and Annie for your hard work at creating such a wonderful camp atmosphere and telling us stories of places you have seen and been yourself. We are so thankful to have gotten to ride at your rides.

This one is EXTRA special. Sometimes one of us say yes to a horse that just feels like it is supposed to be here. I mean...
07/03/2023

This one is EXTRA special.
Sometimes one of us say yes to a horse that just feels like it is supposed to be here. I mean none of us NEED another horse but really sometimes the horse needs to be here.
In the case of Ke'ahi Lani there were a lot of reasons he needed us. He was no longer a safe horse where he was living and had no real options. The owners were responsible owners and did not want him to hurt someone so they were about to make some hard choices that no one could blame them for making. Rafe and Karen opened up their hearts and created space for him at our ranch since we have often handled lost causes.
Ke'ahi had a trailer accident that created trama in him. It made a horse that would get in a trailer then come UNGLUED and kick until he broke his leg. He was dangerous, and I don't say this lightly because everyone knows that I rarely consider a horse ACTUALLY dangerous. He thought he could breed people. He believed striking was an option ALL of the time for ANY reason. He had bad stall habits because he was not catchable and therefore had not been given turn out and had to get his exercise on line. He was a wreck. It took us tons of drugs to keep him quiet enough to get him seven miles to our ranch from where he was without him hurting himself inside that trailer.
Once he was in his new home with us Seth started working on fixing the trailer trauma with clicker training and a target. I mean it took months and months and small tiny steps to help this horse but Seth is really great with target training. I am his fan 🥹even without being his wife. During this I was working on showing him that breeding people was NOT an option and striking would mean work. We came to an understanding. We started him under saddle (which even as a 10 year old stallion he came along SO fast) and at some point realized we wanted him in a herd so he became a ten year old gelding. Those mares of ours TORTURED him but taught him some things about being in a herd.
Fast forward a few years and a few moves where he trailered no problem thanks to Seth's hard work. We started conditioning him for endurance and this last ride he got tossed on the trailer last second because Hermes was a tiny bit sore from who knows what. He loaded up and went on his first adventure. We told Abby, who has in the past worked for me and ridden green horses with me, that she had a new riding partner. Seth gave her some pointers on some of his green horse habits (like he has only been on trail a handful of times and it takes a mile before he feels okay but he wants to be good). Abby got up early to make sure he was nicely calm before the start of the ride, walked around on him a bit to help him feel good, and then we started out. Words can't even express just how many emotions I felt on that ride watching this gelding start his life in endurace. Abby rode him flawlessly even when the first mile he thought jumping sage brushes were what they were doing and when mid ride he thought he may want to lope faster than Abby wanted him to. Abby taught him to keep a pace she wanted, to get behind Kirri and listen to the boss mare, and how to take care of himself. I am beyond proud of this horse and Abby for taking his first endurance ride! What a HUGE accomplishment!!! I can't wait for the next ride he does, this guy is going to be a POWERHOUSE! Rafe has a really nice horse in this guy.

When it is rainy for quite awhile and the ponies are feeling CRAZY on the one sunny day of the week. Bahir got to turn o...
02/03/2023

When it is rainy for quite awhile and the ponies are feeling CRAZY on the one sunny day of the week. Bahir got to turn out and be a coocoo head in the arena. Afterwards we taught him all about how to walk on the hot walker for warm up and cool down time. Teaching a youngster how to use the hot walker has been fun for Catalina and I. First we turn it on and have the horse walk around beside it while it is running, then we attach them to the hot walker (with a zip tie to release if they REALLY panic and pull hard) and walk with them, and finally we leave and let them walk and walk and walk. 🤣 Ahhhhh! Exercising horses without all the hard work!

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Angi shared some of the issues that make life more difficult for senior horses, “Pain management is a big one. Sometimes they need extra massage and PEMF so they feel not as cranky from pain. Determining when is the time to let go based on quality of life. Allowing them to have fun in turn out without over doing it and becoming in too much pain. Sometimes they have no teeth and need to eat just soup. I strongly encourage people to look past the age of a horse and if it belongs in your herd give it that chance. They will change your world completely!” 4 of 6

The adventures of Puff.

Silly mare on a trail adventure around the ranch.

This was her first saddle and I am SO proud of her! Baby Aria is growing up fast! She is just three this year so all of this is preparation for next year when she starts to have a rider on her back. Before this I had sat the saddle on and off her back a few times but she really just didn't care. We make sure to have a horse or two in the round pen with them for the first saddle so they have someone to take comfort from. We will start ponying Aria out on trail so she can learn the trails and get some light conditioning without a rider this year.

So this day's ride didn't go at all accordingly to plan but isn't that endurance?! Saturday's ride started with Debbie on Kaya, Kaileb on Josiah, Rafe on Orlando, and Will on Butterball. In the start Kaileb and Debbie turned around (more on this later) and Orlando threw a shoe so Will ended up ahead of Rafe. When Rafe came into camp walking Orlando (they did about 6 or 7 miles on foot) we borrowed a rasp and hoof nipper, cleaned up Orlando's hoof and fit it in Kaya's boot, and sent them back into the desert. Alone. First time ever....... 😁I am SO proud of them both.

We have new friends here at the ranch. Tiny little baby peeps.

When the rain comes and you need to move the two unhandled horses into the barn area. The mare motel is still soggy ground but at least it has a lovely shelter so that is where Dorito and Bubbles get to go for the next rainy time.

Making the giant plastic not a big deal by including Pie in clean up duties around the ranch.

Wolfie says that if he hides his feet maybe they won't get trimmed.

When we had a break in the rain, and the #3 arena was dry enough, we spent the day turning out horses so they could play. Ulysses and Juno were fire breathing dragons! Ulysses is fit for his first 50 mile ride coming up in March and Juno is a fireball on a good day. Juno is slowly conditioning so that she can ride her first LD endurance ride at the end of the season or next year if all goes well. 😁

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