Bye Ri...

Ri went to his new home yesterday. We dropped him off in the afternoon at an acreage not too far away. His paddock mates are an Appaloosa mare and two tiny donkeys. Ri only seemed interested in the hay, so the mares advances towards him were met with indifference, or an angry swish of a tail when she threatened to disturb his eating...so she passively stayed back.

But then the mini Donkeys became inquisitive of the new horse; and Ri gave them an angry "don't disturb my eating you mutant rabbit horses" look and shook his head at them...well that brought out the mothering instincts in the mare...and she let Ri know that the Donkeys were her babies and that he best stay away from them! She put on quite a show....Ri just went back to eating.

Poor Amanda struggled to leave her "baby". They came so far together...from an unstarted half starved gelding desperately in need of baby oil, so the show champion he became. Ri did not share the sentimentality though...on his part he just kept eating.

Karen