Tears

I have said before that this is a very special place.  This is a place where horses come that have not always been loved or taken care of and the farm people help them heal and feel safe and find them new families that will love them forever. Do you remember me telling you about that in my very first letter? 

Well I hate telling you this part because it is sad, but sometimes a horse comes to the farm that is very sick.  And sometimes it turns out that neither the farm people, nor the animal doctor, can help them get better... no matter how much they want to. Sometimes all of the medicine and love in the world cannot help. Everyone just hates it when that is the truth, but sometimes that is the way things are.

We just got a new girl horse from the auction and it was a good thing because Unspeakable Things would have happened to her if we didn't bring her here.  We named her Ginger.  But when the animal doctor came to give her a check up we learned that she was a very sick girl who could not get better. Let me tell you, that was a sad day and the start of  very sad week. The farm people cried about the news and all of the animals were sad too because we wanted her to feel better and have a wonderful life.  Well, that could not happen so the farm people had to put her to sleep.  Sometimes that is what they have to do.  They buried Ginger here on the farm.  They cried a lot and were very sad and also very mad at the people who had not taken care of her.  I think they hate those people, I really do.

So sometimes it is pretty tough around here. The farm people have to deal with a lot because they love animals so much.  I don't know how they do it, I really don't, but I know they are all glad that Ginger came here so that she could feel love at the end of her life and that she did not have the terrible ending that would have been her fate otherwise.  She felt love, I know she did, because that is what we do. We just wish it could have been a different ending....

I think we are going to be crying for awhile around here... So please say a prayer for my farm people, that the big sad feelings will stop hurting so much, and please say a prayer for sweet Ginger, that she will always, always remember the love she was given...

Love,

Donkey