This week we had to end the love affair between Nitro and Zoe. Nitro a gelding doesn't seem to know it and wore out Zoe by chasing her around the paddock; Besides that Nitro was becoming a pain to handle. He was getting too attached and would not even stand in his stall without walking in circles and trying to reach Zoe through the bars. I've been treating some blisters in his feet and he was so unruly that he wouldn't have any part of it. In fact he kicked me for the first time in ten years. He was blinded by his feelings for Zoe and was upsetting the whole barn. What to do? Sad in a way he was only acting out a millions of year old ritual that has perfected horses to one of natures greatest survivors. They seem totally adaptable to any environment, they even work the big cities. Yet what to do? Shall I deprive him of his natural instinct or separate them and bring some order back to the barn? I only wish it were possible to let them loose together forever but neither would survive yet how do I keep them from the pain of separating.
Nitro has cried for Zoe the past two nights and most of the day since they parted. I only hope he forgives me and becomes my horse again. How selfish I feel.
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