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Cricket

Cricket wasn’t called Cricket when she came to us. My sister, Kim, renamed her the minute we set eyes on

I will tell you right now that Tootsie’s is an all-time great Rescue Story. I’m not bragging for me, I’m

For the first ten years of his life, Bruno belonged somewhere. I’m not sure what those circumstances were or how

A couple of years ago, Gordy, my sister, Kim, and I fostered and rehabbed a total of fifteen horses through

Maizey is crazy. We call her that and we are the ones who love her. Whether I tell Maizey’s story

Gigi’s life was spared by the simplest of lies, one invented by her previous owners, maybe even on the spot.

Old horses, like old dogs, are hard to rehabilitate. It takes a long time for their biology to respond and

Mya is 31 years old. I always lead with that; for a horse, 31 is a magnificent accomplishment. In Mya’s

I want to believe that Molly was wanted, was loved and attended to, for at least some part of her

It has been a year — no, more than that — since I have written here. I have missed it,

Not all the time, but fairly persistently throughout my youth and adulthood, I wished for the ability to connect with

I know what is hard about this. I know what is hard about losing an animal. Ask me about Andante.

My timid little blog has been sitting idle. One month has stretched to two and now three have passed without

I actually used that phase on someone this week. “Glad to hear you’re back in the saddle”, texted in response

There are a great many dogs in this house. It would be easy to conclude there are too many

There is only one Muppet, extraordinary little creature that she is; she is truly in a class by herself. Well,

I have a word of caution for you all: If you are at your vet office and someone sits next

Sometimes, change happens with such a slothful lack of urgency that it twists me in knots of pent-up energy for

Those of you who have been following along here since nearly the beginning, know Molly’s story. How, abandoned to the

So, um yes, if you read my last post you know that I was in need of some lifting up