This afternoon we took our 9-month old blind foal Brynn out to meet our 5-week old blind foal Cash for the first time. We had planned to do this earlier, but we’re in the "big melt" right now and our corrals are too icy and muddy for these little guys. (This is our two-week "ick" period each spring, when if you’re not standing in mud, you’re standing on ice.) So we took them out to a nearby pasture where they could meet each other in the round pen and start the "getting to know you" thing.
I turned Brynn loose in the round pen and then brought Cash up to her, so they were nose to nose. At first neither one knew what to make of the other … they sniffed and sniffed ("hmm. horse. I think. hmm") … and then little Cash reared up on his hind legs, front feet in the air, and spun to the left. That startled Brynn, of course, who wheeled around and spun off in the other direction.
This was Cash’s first encounter with another horse other than his momma, so we’re going to let the introduction occur slowly over several days. After the nose-to-nose in the pen, I put Brynn’s lead rope back on her and we led both of them out. I stood there for a while, in between them, while they sniffed each other again. Then all three of us posed for Alayne so she could take this photo!
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