Kathleen wrote:

> I worry for my soft-hearted daughter, but I also know that she is
> stronger and tougher than I ever would have given her credit for.
> Several weeks back she was out on her horse with Scully, her BC, and
> Yak, the stable dog, miles from anywhere, alone. Yak flushed a deer,
> ran it down. It crashed into my daughter's horse, fell and Yak was on
> it in a flash and mangled both of its hind legs.
>
> It was screaming, there was no help and no hope, so she walked up on it
> from behind, put her boot on its head to hold it still and put it down
> with the knife her dad gave her for her 18th birthday. She didn't cry
> until she got home.

Poor kid, I am sorry she had to go through that. Life is tough
sometimes, but she made it.

Becca