Thank you to everyone who has posted or emailed us such wonderful sentiments about Roy and Scout. We really appreciate it! I wanted to let you know that Roy is doing better. Last night, about 8 p.m., Alayne and I looked out the living room window and were startled to see Roy had made his way down to the sighted horse corral. This is about 100 yards from Beauty’s Barn, and thus the first sign — and a very healthy one — that he was starting to explore again.
I got the camera and walked out to take the photo above of Roy greeting a couple of the sighted horses. The white horse is Lilah and Blueberry is behind her. Since Roy arrived last summer, he had only been with Scout and the other blind horses who live at Beauty’s Barn. So I think he was a bit surprised to notice that, holy smokes, there are some horses at the ranch who can actually see!
We would never put Roy in with our small herd of sighted horses because they would, sad to say, chase him around and pick on him. And given his rickety and creaky old joints, that’s the last thing he needs. I think that thought was crossing Roy’s mind just about the time I took the photo, because the greeting lasted only a minute or two and then he wandered through that open gate and made his way back down to Beauty’s Barn. This morning when I went out to feed, I found him standing in the barn aisle again, outside Scout’s stall. But we were pleased to see him venture that far afield last night.
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