Renegade Equine

06/06/2026

Massage day yesteday for Apple, Cora, Kalvin, Autymn, Izzy and River!

06/03/2026

We’ve missed Jack here at the farm, but are so excited for this blossoming friendship and for Jack to have a donkey friend 💕

As we continue to move forward in our rehoming process, we would like to update you on our donkey Wally and introduce you to temporary resident, Jack (donkey on the right).

Jack is with us from the wonderful Vermont based rescue, “Ayla’s Equine Revival”.
We connected with them, and learned that they were looking for a suitable donkey companion for their lone donkey, Jack. Knowing that the best suited situation for Wally was to have a donkey companion as well, and having heard great things about Ayla’s Equine Revival’s compassionate, knowledgeable and understanding approach to equine training and management, we really hoped Jack and Wally would be a match.
At the time, Wally and Cooper were still bonded and it didn’t feel appropriate to prematurely separate them; in an effort to reduce emotional stress and trauma. It so happened that Ayla’s Equine Revival also had plans to reconfigure their fencing where the donkeys would reside, and it made sense for Jack to relocate temporarily.
And so, Jack traveled to us.
We have slowly been acclimating the two boys and are very happy to report that they are getting along great. They are developing a sweet “big brother” and “little brother” relationship, with Jack being twice Wally’s current age and a bit more confident within himself, and Wally being more withdrawn, inquisitive and playful. They are developing a nice balance between their personalities, bringing out bits of one-another’s temperaments in the other.

We will be sharing more about these two sweet boys in the days ahead, as they continue to acclimate to eachother, and we prepare Wally for his next chapter.
We know it is going to be a great one.

05/30/2026

This guy, I remember this moment like it was yesterday 💕
A little story about vulnerability, love, dedication, and patience💖

05/30/2026

Join us for TWO priceless training clinics, in Redmond, OR : July 11-17 and July 20-26. Wild b***o gentling July 11-17; learn to gentle and begin the training process with a BLM wild b***o from AZ. Then the following week, join us for Simple Solutions Training July 20-26, 2026. Learn from renowned mustang gentler and trainer Anna Twinney Holistic Horsemanship and instructor Katie Dixon of Renegade Equine. These clinics are fully immersive and hands on. For b***o gentling, you will work with one of our BLM b***os and for Simple Solutions, you can work with a horse from Safe Acres, or you may bring your horse and create a training bridge to success! Www.reachouttohorses.com to register, you can email any questions to either [email protected], or [email protected] 🙂

Join us for TWO priceless training clinics, in Redmond, OR : July 11-17 and July 20-26. Wild b***o gentling July 11-17; learn to gentle and begin the training process with a BLM wild b***o from AZ. Then the following week, join us for Simple Solutions Training July 20-26, 2026. Learn from renowned mustang gentler and trainer Anna Twinney Holistic Horsemanship and instructor Katie Dixon of Renegade Equine. These clinics are fully immersive and hands on. For b***o gentling, you will work with one of our BLM b***os and for Simple Solutions, you can work with a horse from Safe Acres, or you may bring your horse and create a training bridge to success! Www.reachouttohorses.com to register, you can email any questions to either [email protected], or [email protected] :)

05/22/2026

A few years ago, I would have called a horse “lazy” for not wanting to work.

That word came so easily back then.

Lazy.
Difficult.
Unmotivated.
Disrespectful.

I thought I understood what I was seeing because that’s how most of us were taught to interpret resistance. If a horse didn’t want to participate, the assumption was simple:
the horse needed better training, more discipline, more pressure, more consistency.

But over time, something in me began to soften.
Or maybe unravel.

I started noticing how quickly humans label behaviors when we don’t understand the experience underneath them.

Now, when a horse seems unwilling, I find myself asking very different questions.

Are they uncomfortable?
Confused?
Disconnected?
Overstimulated?
In pain?
Shut down?
Uninspired?
Grieving?
Exhausted?

Or maybe…
maybe they simply don’t want to do the thing we are asking.

And maybe that matters more than we’ve allowed ourselves to believe.

That question changes everything because it forces us to confront something deeper:
Do we believe another being is allowed to have their own experience if it inconveniences us?

Not just horses.
Anyone.

There is something unsettling about realizing how often obedience is praised while honesty is punished.

A horse pins their ears, walks away, braces, hesitates, disconnects, and we immediately search for techniques to overcome the response rather than curiosity about what created it.

We have entire systems built around making “no” disappear.

And to be fair, most of us inherited this mindset honestly. We were taught that leadership meant getting the horse to comply. We were taught that resistance was something to solve.

But what if resistance is sometimes communication?

What if the horse is not failing the relationship…
but revealing the relationship?

I think one of the biggest shifts in my life has been learning to stop viewing willingness as something that can be extracted.

Real willingness has life in it.
Choice in it.
Spirit in it.

It cannot be manufactured through pressure without becoming something else entirely.

And I think compassion often begins at the exact moment certainty ends.

The moment we stop saying:
“This horse is lazy.”

And start asking:
“What is this horse experiencing right now?”

Because the quality of our questions shapes the quality of our relationships.

With horses.
With humans.
With ourselves.

05/14/2026

Nala tells how fortunate we are to have the skills and amazing empathy of Katie Dixon to work with and ❤️our herd. -horses