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Complaint Review: Guest Ranch Association - CDGRA - DRA - Parshall Colorado
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Guest Ranch Association - CDGRA - DRA
447 CR 3 Parshall, CO 80468 Parshall, 80468 Colorado, U.S.A.
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Guest Ranch Association CDGRA DRA Guest Ranch Rip Offs and Non Horsemanship the business that doesnt give a dam about thier customers Colorado
This is to let the public know that when you go to a Guest Ranch, you know the whole story. First, many of the owner's of these Guest Ranches are not lifetime Horseman or women. Many have quit, been laid off or fired from their "real world" jobs and up and decided to buy a ranch. In order to escape from their misfortune.
Many have no experience what so ever with livestock and rely on the "help", that comes with the ranch when they purchase it. ( There are some, very few who actually have experience) Most make a complete buffoon of themselves and we who have been in the business all of our lives are ashamed of the image they portray. They believe that since they have business or teaching background, they know better than those of us who live the western life on a daily basis. And forget about telling them how to do something. They know it ALL, because they have bought their way into the Dude and Guest Ranch Associations and "discuss methods of ranching" with the other "ranchers", I use that word lightly describing them.
One Ranch that comes to mind in Parshall, Colorado is a pool of amatuers and slick talking wanna be cowboys. J, the owner and his wife, C think they have a complete grasp on the whole ranching idea. C is a ex teacher who thinks she knows all and forget about telling this woman about doing anything. Oh she will tell you, she has had a horse since she was a kid. A pet does not make you a horseman!!
They had a couple that lived with them until they could not stand one more day of it and finally moved to a nearby town to work on a real working ranch. Then they hired another couple and that lasted about 2 years. Then they hired a real cowboy who had worked on ranches for all his life, he quit also. These 2 rely on guest who like to come and work for them at the opening of the season, then slick talk their way into a job with them!!
These 2 individuals originally were guests at the ranch. Now they work there? They have no livestock expeirence, oh yea, C can show them...yea right. As long as you suck up to J...any female that is and do not come across with the, " a woman cannot do that" attitude you are good to go at this BS ranch. J is basically a flirt who likes to get drunk and screw around with the young girls who work there. This guy should take his slick talk back to the city where he belongs.
C is basically an insecure female on a power trip who can't stand to be proved wrong and has no business in the ranching business. All the while these 2 pay their staff $500.00 per month and J manipulates their bonus to cover his own butt. He is a scam artist and a B-S businessman in a cowboy hat. He likes to tell the staff that Colorado makes him take out 30% taxes...liar. Working for these 2 is fine if you like to wander mindlessly through your job.
Jim
Granby, Colorado
U.S.A.
Many have no experience what so ever with livestock and rely on the "help", that comes with the ranch when they purchase it. ( There are some, very few who actually have experience) Most make a complete buffoon of themselves and we who have been in the business all of our lives are ashamed of the image they portray. They believe that since they have business or teaching background, they know better than those of us who live the western life on a daily basis. And forget about telling them how to do something. They know it ALL, because they have bought their way into the Dude and Guest Ranch Associations and "discuss methods of ranching" with the other "ranchers", I use that word lightly describing them.
One Ranch that comes to mind in Parshall, Colorado is a pool of amatuers and slick talking wanna be cowboys. J, the owner and his wife, C think they have a complete grasp on the whole ranching idea. C is a ex teacher who thinks she knows all and forget about telling this woman about doing anything. Oh she will tell you, she has had a horse since she was a kid. A pet does not make you a horseman!!
They had a couple that lived with them until they could not stand one more day of it and finally moved to a nearby town to work on a real working ranch. Then they hired another couple and that lasted about 2 years. Then they hired a real cowboy who had worked on ranches for all his life, he quit also. These 2 rely on guest who like to come and work for them at the opening of the season, then slick talk their way into a job with them!!
These 2 individuals originally were guests at the ranch. Now they work there? They have no livestock expeirence, oh yea, C can show them...yea right. As long as you suck up to J...any female that is and do not come across with the, " a woman cannot do that" attitude you are good to go at this BS ranch. J is basically a flirt who likes to get drunk and screw around with the young girls who work there. This guy should take his slick talk back to the city where he belongs.
C is basically an insecure female on a power trip who can't stand to be proved wrong and has no business in the ranching business. All the while these 2 pay their staff $500.00 per month and J manipulates their bonus to cover his own butt. He is a scam artist and a B-S businessman in a cowboy hat. He likes to tell the staff that Colorado makes him take out 30% taxes...liar. Working for these 2 is fine if you like to wander mindlessly through your job.
Jim
Granby, Colorado
U.S.A.
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JOHN
Trenton, NJ,New Jersey,
U.S.A.
MANY GUEST RANCHERS MAY BE LIKE "C" AND "J"
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, April 21, 2004
Jim, I like to think of the Rocky Mountains--Reno to Denver and Tucson to Kalispell--as my second home. However, I'm the first to admit that I still have a lot to learn, and master, about riding. When I visit a ranch I expect two things (1) Honesty (or "full disclosure") and (2) Patience and ordinary humility. In return, I promise to keep my mouth shut, and listen. On Honesty: If a ranch has only 3 or 4 horses, I guess they need to be extra careful about how and where they are ridden. If this is the case it would be helpful--to everyone--if the wrangler let the guest in on this fact and let the guest know if there was something he was doing with the horse that should not be done. Waiting until after the ride, and everyone is seated at dinner, for this "state secret" to be revealed seems to accomplish nothing, except feed some sick egos. On "Patience, etc:" I hope to benefit from the knowledge and skills of the wrangler when I visit a ranch. On the other hand I don't expect the wrangler to stuff her knowledge and skill in my face. As stupid as it may seem to others I will gape at a setting sun or a spectacular vista from a ridge. Where I live, the only "vista" I can see are rooftops and power lines for a distance of 500 feet. In my case my wrangler was from Connecticut and got her job pretty much like the help at "C" and "Js" place--she and hubby came as guests and became wranglers. Since having visited the "Connecticut wrangler" I've discovered a ranch in Wyoming that tends to offer less ego and more positive attitude and honesty.
