Since I've been at college, I have been missing my horses back home. I have a 16-year-old American Quarter Horse named Chicks Lil Wager and I've had her since I was about 12 years old. Over the past two years, we've bred Chick and gotten two wonderful babies from her! One of them is a friendly little colt named Chick's Brave Warrior and the other is a sassy little filly named This Chick Has Sass. Brave was the very first baby we had in the barn and is now nearly two years old.
On top of our barn full of horses, we have two dogs named Char and Nala. Char was the first dog we got and was around when both Brave and Sassy were born. Brave was born before we got Nala though. Before we had Nala, Char seemed to get very lonely around the farm. If no one was actively playing with her she'd try to entertain herself by tossing one of her toys to herself or by bothering the horses. However, everything seemed to change for her when Brave was born. Since he was just a tiny colt, he was the perfect size to function as her playmate. She loved to jump over him and lick at his face whenever she could. He tolerated just about everything she did, and, to this day, she still favors him over the other horses in the barn.
I was browsing through my phone the other day and thought I would share some of these moments with you! Here is baby Brave laying out in the sandpit. As usual, Char wasn't very far away.
Another thing she liked to do was lay with him. I came into the barn one morning and managed to capture the two laying down together. This was Brave's favorite spot to lay down because he wasn't tall enough to look over the stall door. Instead of trying to peek over, he would lay down and look under to see what was going on around the barn.
This is so cool! You see so many of these moments captured on places like animal planet and Twitter accounts, but you never really know the stories behind them! Does Char still get to see Brave in the winter time or is it harder for her to be out there when it's cold?
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