Willis and Sharon Lamm have created a vast website full of totally useful information about working with mustangs. The Kickin' Back Ranch website is one of the best and most altruistic horse resources in existence. The Lamm's are motivated by what's good for horses, not what sells. Bcause of the extensiveness of this website, before I met Willis, I expected him to be a geeky cyberspatial web-rat whose pale fingers were permanently embedded in a keyboard. It turns out that Willis is a handsome, healthy ex-fireman who moves like an athlete. He writes a regular safety column in the Trail Rider magazine and you quickly become aware that if you were having an emergency of any kind, you'd want him on your lifeline. So pondering as to how a man could be so prolific, so engaged, and so committed to horses, I wrote to him about the upcoming Mustang Adoption at the Jicarilla Ranger District here in NM. Willis was going to send some literature to the adoption organizers to hand out with the mustangs, then he gave me a clue as to how he manages his time. He said there were 3,000 unread emails in his mailbox and I was lucky to have got his attention. The man needs a secretary!
So, maybe Willis and Sharon will never know, but the Kickin' Back Ranch gets about 20 gold horseshoes in my book.
This is just a link to the training part of their website and if you start wandering around there, you will quickly discover that it is a vast realm to explore. This is just a beachhead on the KBR continent: KBR Training Information
- their apparent total dedication to the welfare of horses;
- providing a mountain of practical information;
- and being an inspirational model of passion and committment to the creation of a better world.
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12 years later and Willis is still one of my heroes. I keep track of him on FaceBook where he mostly describes technical rescues of wild horses in Nevada. Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue
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