Shetland ponies come from the windswept islands north of Scotland, where winters are brutal and food is scarce. To survive there, they grew thick double coats and sturdy little bodies.
For their size, they're among the strongest horses in the world.
In the 1800s, after an 1842 law banned women and young children from working underground in Britain's coal mines, thousands of Shetlands were sent down into the dark as pit ponies, hauling heavy carts through tunnels too small for bigger horses.
People look at a Shetland and see something small and cute. They don't see how much it has carried.
You may have been underestimated your whole life, but look at everything you've carried anyway. That strength was always there.
Stay wild,
Chris