26 March

Chloe Leaves Bedlam Farm

by Jon Katz
Chloe Leaves The Farm

Chloe left us this afternoon, Chad Gulley came in his trailer and drove her to Shushan to live with Treasure Wilkinson and Donna Keays. Maria walked Chloe out of the pasture and down the driveway and into the trailer, she went easily and without a fuss, as is her nature.

This was a very hard thing for Maria to do, that’s really for her to write about. We both felt it was a good thing to do, and that feeling did not waver. I got a final kiss on the nose, but we will be going to see her in her new home tomorrow to check on things.

We drove to Treasure’s farm with Chad and helped her get settled. There are two other horses living on the farm, Queenie and Mickey, and there were some fireworks, as there often are with horses, some shouting and nipping and kicking. Treasure got bounced off a fence post in all of the posturing, but she seems indestructible, Red stayed outside of the pasture and wanted nothing much to do with the goats and horses inside.

It is a wonderful place for Chloe, Treasure and Donna are passionate and experienced animal lovers, and Chloe settled in immediately, grazing in the pasture, and on the very fine second cut hay Treasure and Donna buy for the horses.

So it is done. I’ll put up a couple more photos along with this one.

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