The Luckiest Racehorse Alive

The Luckiest Racehorse Alive

This story appeared in the Lancaster Sunday News, written by Pat Johnson The day Ron Hevener called to announce the birth of Naja, he was as excited as any new father. To Hevener, Naja's birth was evidence of just one more miracle in the unfolding events of Nahgua - a...

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If Animals Could Talk

If Animals Could Talk

Winter’s aching fingers pinched my ears as I hurried to the barn. My toes, cozy and padded by woolen socks in a new pair of work boots, bent with each chunk of frozen mud beneath them and sent fluffy, mindless snow bouncing away on my path. A shepherd amid his flock...

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So Much Alike!

So Much Alike!

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."- John Shedd One of the things I like most about horses is their emotional honesty. By emotional honesty, I mean a horse’s direct connection to its natural impulses. These can be impulses of...

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