A little more. 20 July 23
Today my best four legged friend moved. I shared a post/video a while ago about why I had to move her, I’ll link it below.
It was hot, and windy and humid. But we made it. My car…well, it still started up, but something is going on with the battery, that I jus put in in April.. anyway, I digress.
Sadie is settling in and I’m seeing a totally different horse…she’s acting like a horse instead of a giant dog. She was not with other horses, just deer and cats for the past five years. She never acted anything but glad to see me and was calm and docile.
Since we’ve arrived, she’s done the normal squealing and being bitchy. There will be some adjustments. She will have her own area, and she wasn’t turned out to battle it out with her new/old friends. We don’t want anyone getting kicked…and there’s always some kicking and squealing with horses and introductions.
She won’t have the pasture to run in anymore…but that’s ok.
She looks at me, with questions…but then she walks away to get closer to the other horses.
She is a herd animal, and I’ve wondered since I’ve had her, if she needed a buddy. What I’ve seen over the last couple of days is that she does need another horse buddy. Horses need horses.
The hardest part of this whole thing has been acceptance. Acceptance first that I couldn’t afford to sustain her quality of living like I had been, acceptance that I had to accept THAT. Acceptance of the physicality of the entire thing….moving her three hours away from me. Acceptance that I need to learn to not try to control every single thing. That’s impossible. And finally acceptance that life is about change, even if it hurts. I’m still here, still learning, so that’s a bonus.
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Shassy
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