Cap De View Ranch

01/18/2023

This one….Sweet Phoebe

01/10/2022

12/08/2021

Clean, quiet barn located in Bend. Large paddock available with turnout. Indoor & Outdoor arenas. Call or txt for inquires (541)904-5262

09/18/2020

09/11/2020

Some additional info on locations and organizations accepting livestock. Thank you, Thoroughbred Real Estate Group.

Benton County Fairgrounds ⠀
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Columbia County Fairgrounds ⠀
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Oregon State Fairgrounds ⠀
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Polk County Fairgrounds (call 503-623-3048 in advance to let them know what type of livestock you have) ⠀
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West Hills Stables in West Salem (call 503-851-2214 to confirm availability) ⠀
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Clackamas County Fairgrounds ⠀
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Accepting horses only at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Frear St, Roseburg ⠀
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(please confirm availability locally as information is subject to change) Even if they don't have open stalls, these grounds have large lots to park trailers in and are good landing place to coordinate from)
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If you are watching this unfold from a safe place, please consider making a donation to Sound Equine Options, who have been working over time assisting in evacuations.

12/22/2019

Happy Holidays from everyone at Cap De View!

10/05/2019

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance
like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature.

That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

Written by Jane Smiley