Day Twelve

(Written April 2)

I can't get past the feeling that his acceptance of everything we do when he's in the squeeze chute is a result of his fight-or-flight response being subdued because he knows he cannot fight. He seems like a broken animal when we've got him caged up close. But I don't know what else to do in the time frame we've got left. This has become so much more than a class to me, and I truly wish it wasn't a class with a short time limit...more than getting an A, I want to give this horse a future.