I Love my Mom!

I am very upset as I stand here in my stall, eating the delicious hay mom bought for me, because I learned that my mom has been feeling very lonely and neglected and that she found out some she felt were friends have been thinking she spends too much time talking about me and praising her love for me. That they have avoided her and made her feel unwanted when I know my mom has given a LOT to the humans at the barn... she offers her help, I have seen it, she loans out her stuff (some of it MY stuff; I am not as giving as my mom. I don't want any other using my stuff, but that's me)


I know I am only a horse, but what is so wrong about this bond and love my mom and me have together? I know my mom is not like other humans. She has cried on my massive shoulder on more than one occasion and I kissed her and nuzzled her with my muzzle to try and make her feel better. I am her world, but I know she is lonely and longs for the companionship of other humans. I can't always be there since I cannot live in the house with her. I don't think I would even fit through the door!


Mom told me that we are leaving this barn that I have lived in for the past year and a half. She said that she started to think about leaving because people she loved and considered friends began to make her feel very left out and lonely. She knows they don't do it on purpose, but it hurt her anyway. Personally, I think she is oversensitive and should just kick them in the shins, but then I am a horse! I go out in that pasture and I DEMAND respect in the herd! They might not all like me, but they all respect me!


In any event, mom is much more sensitive than I am; the show circuit taught me to be tough.


Mom told me about the new barn; she said it's what she has always wanted for me and that this place is as close as she has ever come to the way things would be if she had her own barn and farm. I am fairly happy where I am; I like being respected by so many other horses, but I am not an attention-seeker (like mom is... don't tell her I said that) and mom said I will have a big stall and a huge paddock with grass and trees, all to myself! There are other horses around so I can still talk to them (I hear one is a horse I knew from the past), but to have all the grass just for ME! Wow! 


Mom says there's enough room for my need to move around, yet not too much land that I can get into trouble (like *I* get into trouble!! Hmmph). And the land is flat. Mom says Uncle Jerry, my farrier, says the flat land will be better for my feet problems. I have to admit those hills can be tough, but I manage.


I have to admit since I lost my best friend, Gulliver, I really haven't been hanging around with anyone else or playing. I really miss him and I know my mom misses his mom. I miss Auntie Sarah too. Mom hopes that she will come see us more at the new barn, since she won't have bad memories there.


I don't know what to expect with this new move and it's a little scary, but mom assures me I will be very happy there. She said I can have a fan on my stall and in the barn during hot days and I can stay out at night. As a matter of fact, she said my stall opens out to my big paddock so I can come and go as I please. Mom told me that's what she always wanted for me!


And I will be able to wear my fly sheet so the flies stay off me. I really hate those bugs. They bite!! I miss my fly sheet! I can also go out in the rain more, even if it's colder, since I will be able to wear my rain sheets. Mom says I can't wear sheets in the pasture where we are now because there's so much land and trees and bushes and other horses, it would be unsafe. If that is true, then I guess it is a good rule, but I do miss my fly sheet!


Mom said I will also be able to have my heated water bucket again this winter, so no more fighting through ice to get my water, and since I have IR mom says I need to have access at all times. I won't tell mom that I never had any problems fighting through ice and it sort of gave me something to do. Neeighhhahahaha. But, I can remember when I had that heated water bucket several years ago at a barn called Nutmeg, I always had water I didn't have to break the ice on...sometimes I am tired and just want to drink!


I have no complaints, personally, where I am, except that I miss Gulliver terribly, but mom insists this place will be better for my health needs and that there are fun places to ride. So, if she feels it is better for me then I believe her.