Chloe met Queenie, a thoroughbred race horse boarding at Treasure’s farm. The two touched noses, as horses do, and later started chasing after each other. This is typical of horse encounters, it may go on for a few days, but Chloe seemed quite at home with Treasure and with the hay placed out in the pasture in neat piles, so the horses could get away from each other and still eat.

Treasure has done this many times, and we are happy Chloe is there. There will soon be kids and grandkids swarming around her to ride and groom and fuss over her. She will be much loved and busy, and in the company of her nation, other horses.

I have this odd feeling about horses that they don’t belong to people in the way dogs and cats do, they live on another place. I could see that clearly today. Chloe was right where she belonged. Good for Maria for putting the pony’s interests above hers. it was a tough day for her.