advocating for horses

Nube: What Retirement Means

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And so, Nube [pronounced new-bay] retired in limbo. Undiagnosable. Sometimes, the solution for a long-running struggle is to just stop the fight. No answer is an answer. Let it go because peace was better than the ugly struggle of focusing on what was wrong. Let the anxiety of multiple vet visits stop and the desperate … Read more

A Call to Arms. (or how to get on the wrong side of a horseperson.)

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You’ve had this happen. Someone finds out you have a horse and they ask, “Do you know my sister’s friend, Diane. She has a horse.” Like there are eleven of us in the state. People who own horses are a wide and diverse group. We divide ourselves by breed and riding discipline. Some of us … Read more