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GentlewoodFarms
October 11, 2017

AGC #4 ~ Yummy

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It usually takes about a week for horses that don't know each other to become friends. With these two it's taken a little less than that - for two reasons.

#1. Java has been by herself since mid-August, and she's been lonely. She's kind of desperate to make a friend, so she's been a lot less bossy than she usually is when a new horse comes to visit. She's been happy to follow Bonnie wherever BONNIE wants to go rather than making Bonnie go where she, Java, wants to go. Because if she doesn't, Bonnie just walks off and leaves her. So it's been kind of funny watching Java struggle with her decision making process and figure out which is more important to her - being the boss or being a friend. I think friend is winning.

#2. Bonnie is a master at open gate radar. She's the only horse that has ever gotten out of the pasture on her own and chasing her down as a long yearling was a memory that I'd forgotten about before today when my farm hand accidentally left a gate unlatched. He just got busy and forgot about it, went out through a different gate, and didn't check the one that isn't visible from the driveway. When I got home from work today, these two were out in the front yard. We have fencing against the street and a gate across the driveway that we ALWAYS close, so there wasn't any danger of their getting into trouble in the street or anything, but Java is pretty impressed with Bonnie's ability to get her out into forbidden territory and they've been thick as thieves all evening.

Nothing like a little criminal masterminding to build strong bonds between cohorts. That's Bonnie on the left and Java on the right, both safely back in the pasture.


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