11/23/2025
A hard post to post,
but it’s time to let it out, and air my heart out.
As everyone knows we lost Flynn this fall. Who was diagnosed with EPM and then two months later he progressed into a humane euthanasia. It hurt my heart, but not just for me personally, but for the lesson kids and for my program.. my dreams.. and this whole business I wanted to create.
It took years for me and my Mother to find GOOD horses that we trust with us and children. And once we finally did, my idea and dreamed blossomed. Then suddenly to feel like it got stripped away instantly is a hard pill to swallow.
As the loss of Flynn is devastating alone.. me and Mom decided to go ahead and test General and Black for EPM (equine protozoal myeloencephhalties) to be preventative for our horses and herd. Just to find out they are positive too. And at greater values than Flynn, -
but just A - symptomatic. Even if the protozoa isn’t active we are still trying to kill it before it does.
At this time, I feel in my heart it is best to let them rest and do treatment. I don’t want no added stress or work for them. I want them to rest and take their meds and pray we see results in a month.
Thankfully, for the kids it’s around winter and Christmas and we don’t do a lot of lessons now anyways. However, it sometimes can take multiple treatments.
Pray with me, that we can get the numbers down and that we can continue to enjoy these amazing horses.
It hurts my heart to have to tell these parents and kids it’s all on hold.. but it’s for the wellbeing of the horse we all love most. As much as it would hurt to lose them for their sake, it would also hurt us just a bit more cause they are our heart horses. The best two me and my mother have ever found.
God laid it on my heart before I lost Flynn that I should take some time off and enjoy my horse for myself. I only have rode him twice this year, if that. My mother with black about the same. And as we all age, and as they aren’t completely healthy, I feel as though 2026 may be the year me and my mother ride our horses together. I deeply enjoy teaching.. and watching the smiles of the kids learn and ride our horses but we haven’t had that for ourselves as I look back.
I just want no regrets. I don’t know our outcome , or what’s to come. We may find a replacement come spring and everything be normal for Learning to Lope again.
But I want and need healthy horses to be rode every day and multiple times a week and when they are compromised I am uncomfortable.
I hope everyone understands my stance. I just pray for healing ❤️🩹 God is capable and I know He hears us 🤍
