19 November

Fate At Work

by Jon Katz
Fate At Work
Fate At Work

It’s difficult for Fate to remain still when she is near the sheep. In the morning, Chloe tends to go and eat hay with the sheep, the donkeys go to the feeder. Horses like to eat from the ground if they can, the lower the food the better. So I work with Fate on her directionals. “Come bye” means move in a clockwise direction (as in the photo), “away” to me means do the same thing in the opposite, or counter-clockwise direction.

Like Red she loves doing outruns,  she runs in ever widening circles, looking to me as she rounds the turn for hand signals. At some point, I tell her to lie down and watch the sheep. They are still challenging her, she is still hanging in there. It does not seem possible to intimidate her.

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