From John: I got to see Fabio today for the first time since we took him to UF. I was so excited but didn’t know what to expect, I stay home and take care of the other six horses so Mom can take Courtney to see her boy. He does look so much better but he looks depressed, bored and like he doesn’t understand all of this. If you look into his eyes he looks like he just wants this all over and to go home. I couldn’t help but to think if I could only just talk horse for one minute that I would tell him first of all that we love him very much, I would tell him that we are doing everything we can to make him better, I would want him to know that no we did not sell him and this isn’t your new home and you will be coming home soon to your family, I would tell him that we don’t want to leave when we go and would stay there with him all day and night if they would let us. One or two hours a day isn’t enough for us either. I saw my little girl try to be strong for him and hold his head in her arms as he put it into her chest and hope that he could feel her love. I saw my wife try so hard to cheer him up like a mom would do for her baby son that’s not feeling to good. I saw tears roll from both of those two tuff girls as they wanted to fix this all and either one of them would take his place in a second to stop him from having to go through all of this. This has been so hard on all of us as we don’t think of our horses or any other animals as pets, they are our family, our babies our responsibility. I’ve heard that people are saying he’s just a horse or he’s from a rescue, like I said, he is one of our babies, he stopped being a rescue horse the day he got here. His first step off the trailer and on to this land made him a champion, a part of a family that will and can not turn their back on him ever. We are not a rescue here, we are home, he was rescued once for some reason but he doesn’t need to be rescued from us. He’s had his back turned on him enough, not going to happen again. I know this family is not perfect by any means but we try to be real, not someone we really aren’t. If we say we are your friend we try our best to be a real friend and understand that you and us are going to make mistakes at times but we are still friends. If we say you are part of this family you will get all the love and care you can handle. Our horses are part of our family. I know that there are people out their that have horses for their competitions and other reasons but we want ours to be and know that they are family. I’ve watched our horses turn into very lovable horses that can think for themselves and play like a horse but also try to be good when asked to and work together as a team to compete when asked to. I’ve watched Courtney and Fabio come so far in the last year, yes our way may take longer but we feel that it is just as great to get a hug back from our horses as it is to win a few dollars, the competition stuff is for fun and whether the horse and rider win or come in last it’s all just for that day, the hugs and licks are forever. It’s not that anyone is wrong, it’s just how we chose to be with our horses, we like to hear people say that they hit the lotto when they came here, we wish we could hit the lotto so we could do more for them. Fabio is one of my daughters best friends, as she says he’s her real boy friend because he tries not to hurt her. As a father I have such a hard time to see her hurting so bad and sometimes blaming herself. I watched her walk out of the stall at UF yesterday and as she was looking back, Fabio was looking back as well like she was saying I don’t want to leave you at all and he was saying where are you going, please stay with me. I try to be a man but I had to walk away so they could not see me cry. I know this all is going to cost a lot but we don’t want to put a dollar sign on our decisions with one of our baby’s lives. It may hurt at this time to put out all of this money on him but we know for a fact that we could not live with ourselves buy saying we can’t afford this and just walk away from a six year old horse that is always there for my little girl, he has changed her life and I can’t thank him enough for that. We will some how get through this financial deal with help or without but that will be easier then losing our Fabio. Just had to say what was on my mind and thank my wife for being the person she is, strong on the outside, enough said.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:25:11 +0000
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