How I got my human....

Fall is here, summer is over. In just a few weeks my mom will have had me a entire year. It's hard to believe I went from being someones transportation, to a riding horse.  I still remember the first time I met my human.

My human had gone through a horrible loss, during a move her gelding was being looked after by a friend of the family. She was constantly told he was fine, until the day she went to get him. When she got there she found out he had been given away!  When the person who had him was found, even after hearing what had happened they refused to give him back.  My human was devastated. The family friend wouldn't even tell her why they did such a thing other then, who the gave him to loved him and wanted him badly after seeing him at their farm.  My human tried everything, police, pleading but to no avail.  She lost complete faith in everyone she had trusted, and the justice system.

She spent weeks in tears, and could barely make it through her work with out crying when a client asked how her horse was (she was just starting her first year out of school as a vet so was dealing with horses everyday).  The barn she had gotten ready for him, she couldn't even go near.  She had lost her best friend and worried constantly about how he was (he was 26).  

After my old human found out what had happened (he had helped my human get the barn ready), he felt horrible but had an idea.  He was going to take me to auction since he didn't want me anymore, but felt I might be just what my new human needed. So his kids brushed me up and took me down the road to put me right in the barn. He made sure the water bucket was full and gave me some hay.  I was given a pat and told this was my new home, and to be a very good boy. On her kitchen door he left my papers signed over to my new human and a note that said "from one horse lover to another".

A little while later my human came racing in to the barn in tears. I was a little confused as nothing was wrong but she was crying.  She spent the rest of the day feeding me carrots and apples. Soon other humans  came to see me even my old human! I was apparently very popular now.

Over the last few months I've leaned how to be a riding horse, that horse cookies are yummy, polo's must be bright colours, and there is no one in this world that loves me more then my human. 

This my horsey friends is how I got my human!