Greener Patures

As crazy as the radio commercials make me, the words of the LDS Social Services adoption campaign keep coming to mind: "I'm not giving him up-- I'm giving him more." I have to keep reminding myself of this. Flash the Wonder Horse has moved to a new home. Since losing the property where my horses have always been kept, after entrusting my horses' care to someone who didn't love and attend to them as I would have, and after searching long and hard for the right adoptive home, I finally met April and Joe. Thanks to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, I was put in touch with this lovely family in Southern Utah who have a large pasture with no one to live in it. They wanted to rescue a horse or two, and I happened to have one who needed "more." On Thursday, I drove him to their place, where we all met for the first time. It was beautiful, with big, billowy Utah clouds and belly-deep grass. The pasture is right on a small river, and his new horse friend was there to meet him when he arrived, having arrived just before he did. Flash was excited to see the new surroundings, excited to see the expanse of his new home, and very excited to meet his new family and friends. He was quiet and gentle and the sweet boy that I know him to be. It was a bittersweet moment, knowing he was in "horse heaven," where he will live out the rest of his retirement in the situation I wish I could have given him. He was suddenly noble and beautiful, at peace. I will miss him. Terribly. But I know he is where he was always meant to be.

Enjoying an apple

Meeting his new Girlfriend

Going to the Pasture

Checking out the new digs

Looking towards his future...