Badger
Mystic
Hari
Gruyeres
Clio
My dearest friends,
always loyal and true,
I am so grateful for what
we shared. We will be
together again.
On the “street”, the horseheavenranch is known as the Circle G, for Gruyeres (after
the little swiss village). She gave almost 12 years of love and joy, a very long life for
her breed. Her favorite activity: looking for rabbits, from cottontails to jackrabbits.
We just called them all “jackbunnies”. No, she never hurt a single one. One time
she followed a cottontail into a large berry bush, leaves a flying. After about ten
seconds out she came, wagging her tail and prancing right over to me. I told her “sit”,
which she proudly did. Suspecting that her inflated jowls were hiding a secret, I told
her to open her mouth. Sitting on her tongue was a baby cottontail, like Jonah in the
whale. I told her to “drop the bunny”. She looked back lornfully, but she obediently
dropped her head close to the ground, opened her mouth, and the baby cottontail ran
as fast as it could back to its nest. Longingly, she watched her little friend go home.
Consolation milkbones soothed her gentle heart; she had just wanted to play with her little bunny friend. True story.
Appendix Quarter, 32 great years
Morgan, 28 profound years
Arab, 33 remarkable years