Hi, I'm Gary

I hope you enjoy my website.  At least, I hope it won't be offensive to you.  It won't be if you care for animals.  I am concerned with animal welfare. I care especially when animals are unnecessarily abused or not cared for.

Owning horses and dogs, or any other animal, obligates you to them and it is much more fun if done so with care and concern for them.  And neglect is really stupid. Persons who have animals need to care for them.

If you see animal abuse, don't let it go.  Do something.  I am against animal abuse or neglect of any kind.

Our Mission

KCR Ranch is dedicated to tell our story about our animals and make other animals safe and happy and strive every day to do something that will make someone's day, or some animals day, a little better than it otherwise would be.

Thank You!

I have a high regard for everyone associated with our Ford County Humane Society.  They are very important people to the animals they help.  Their volunteer efforts make a lot of difference in the lives of the animals they care so much about.  Please help if you can.  If not in our County, maybe where you live.  Animals looking for help can be found by clicking here.

Exceller made more than $1.6 million for his owners.  After retiring from racing, with his first crop of 2-year-olds in 1994, he was second on the stallion list (as a sire of 2-year-olds) with 14 runners and five winners. In 1995 he was sixth on the  general list with 29 offspring and 13 winners and third on the 2-year-old list with 11 runners and four winners. In 1996 he was fourth on the general list with 29 runners and 10 winners. 

Then he was led into a slaughter house to die.  How sad for this great horse who beat 2 Triple Crown winners (Seattle Slew and Affirmed).  The only good thing to come from his death was horse rescue.  "The Exceller Fund" helps retired race horses who gave their all and can no longer make a profit.  It's not their fault.  Click here to visit The Exceller Fund. 

They're better friends than we are!

Dogs love people and depend upon people and, too often, we let them down and treat them bad. We need to be their friend and keeper. After all, we domesticated them and they will do just about anything for us.

Click here to learn more about Magnum!

Excerpt from a local newspaper:  The little dog, dubbed Magnum, was brought to the clinic with wounds resulting from torture. Patches of skin had been burned off with chemicals. Its front legs were wired together, cutting the flesh. One paw was stuffed into his mouth with suffocating effect. A leg was broken. Maggots squirmed in open wounds. He wagged his tail, licked the doctor and fought for life.  He died five days later.

If this is disturbing to you, do something.  You don't have to go out.  Just go to the sites at the bottom of this page and offer your support.  Poor little Magnum helped make animal abuse in Kansas a felony.  His death caused awareness and lawmakers responded.  Don't count on lawmakers though.  One emailed me that he couldn't vote on the bill because it might make it more punishable than child abuse.  It passed anyway.  Maybe he doesn't have the will to help defenseless animals or children.  We should vote for someone who does have courage.

We did it for Magnum in Kansas. We now have a felony law against animal abuse.  Now if you live in one of the other 8 states that don't consider cruelty to animals a felony, write your congressman and ask that animal cruelty become a felony.  It is shameful that any state's lawmakers care not for animals who give us so much entertainment and pleasure.  Just hug a horse, dog or any animal, then write your congressman about animal protection.

Hugo's owner got jail time and its not enough. 

He let Hugo slowly starve to death!  These people live among us.  Join the fight.  Help your Humane Society.

Only two short years ago, PETA delivered a custom-built doghouse to Hugo, a sweet dog who had been chained outside without any shelter from the broiling sun or the freezing cold. Thanks to kind supporters, we regularly bring the same comfort to hundreds of neglected "backyard" dogs every year, animals whose mean owners will not give them away and will only do the minimum within the law—if that. Hugo's owner knew that local laws did not require shelter for dogs, and we were lucky not to be thrown off the property when we arrived with our "gift."

PETA field workers checked in on Hugo last New Year's Day to fill his house with new straw bedding. They found Hugo curled up inside his doghouse. Hugo was dead, and his body was just a bag of bones.

We gained custody of Hugo's body and had him examined by a veterinarian. Hugo had been starved to death, his stomach empty except for some grass and orange peels. PETA immediately put a case file together and pressed local officials to file cruelty-to-animals charges. Through hard work and PETA's own testimony, Hugo's abusive owner was convicted and has received jail time and five years' probation. We also asked that he not be allowed to own or set foot in any home where an animal is present, and the judge granted that condition as part of his probation.