Little about us
Dunn Western Horses is located in Mesa Flats County, just a couple counties away from Appaloosa Plains. Whole county is quite cowboy spirited, there's only a few horses around that do English better than western or do English at all. Overall atmosphere is quite similar to the larger county of Appaloosa Plains, Mesa Flats is just slightly smaller and perhaps therefore a little more on the "everyone knows everyone" side.
The ranch
The ranch was established around mid 20th century by current handler's grandfather as a small cattle ranch and source of fine all round ranch horses. By the time his son took over the operations, close to three decades later, the place had changed more into horse than cattle ranch, having only a few heads for training purposes. And now when about the same amount of time has passed to pass over the place again, the ranch is most of all well known for its quality western performance horses and is set up accordingly.
All in all the ranch is quite compactly build. The main house with barns, paddocks and round pen are situated in 64x64 lot where gate points south. The stock and training grounds are situated in 0x0 lot south of the house, other side of the road. Next to the stock and training grounds on east side is transportation parking on 0x0 lot. Pastures are mostly off lot design.
The main house is two story with two bathrooms, four bedrooms, kid room/nursery, kitchen + dining, hallway joined living room areas. The original barn has five stalls, a loft with hay storage, hanging out space and lodging for four. The other two both have four stalls in doors opening straight to yard setting - in foaling barn these are naturally foaling size stalls. Stalls are mostly for temporary situations, our horses reside in the paddocks on everyday basis, if there's no explicit reason to keep them inside.
All in all the ranch is quite compactly build. The main house with barns, paddocks and round pen are situated in 64x64 lot where gate points south. The stock and training grounds are situated in 0x0 lot south of the house, other side of the road. Next to the stock and training grounds on east side is transportation parking on 0x0 lot. Pastures are mostly off lot design.
The main house is two story with two bathrooms, four bedrooms, kid room/nursery, kitchen + dining, hallway joined living room areas. The original barn has five stalls, a loft with hay storage, hanging out space and lodging for four. The other two both have four stalls in doors opening straight to yard setting - in foaling barn these are naturally foaling size stalls. Stalls are mostly for temporary situations, our horses reside in the paddocks on everyday basis, if there's no explicit reason to keep them inside.
See the gallery for more pictures of the ranch and surroundings
The people
The ranch has always been a family run ranch operated by the Dunn family. Handling of day to day operations is currently in the hands of third generation with previous generation still participating by looking over the shoulder.
Current head of operations and main rider&trainer is Michael Dunn, his father William being the one looking over the shoulder and giving a hand with management when needed. Other primary rider&trainer for performance horses is Michael's younger brother Zachary. Michael's wife Kathleen pitches in by working with non-performance horses and being the primary pair for performance ones in halter and pleasure classes. More information about the Dunn family |
Behind the scenes
The real person behind all of this is female simmer going by Dorms, although complete screen name usually is dormilone. When contacting Dunn Western Horses (or DWH for short), addressing the real person is preferred over the characters. Referring to characters won't do any harm to anyone, no worries. It's simply just about preference, I don't really do this in role playing way. I'd say something in the lines of a storyteller suits better, hence rather addressing Dorms than one of the Dunns.
Getting in contact
Perhaps the best way to get in contact is using email [email protected]. This email isn't solely for DWH though, so please specify in subject or in the beginning of your mail, that it's related to DWH. Obviously no need for this, if your matter isn't directly about the business of the ranch, but something more general instead.