When animating my film in the realm of 3D, I sometimes find it helpful to draw out or rough animate a movement traditionally. Here's a little rough pose-to-pose that I did for my Mule's walk cycle in copic markers. Animation-wise the drawings aren't perfect, but they were extremely helpful process-wise. I'm confident I could animate any quardoped cycle in my SLEEP now!

Aaaand ADORABLE RAM! He'll eat your soul with CUTENESS.