My sister has taken on a new role over the weekend. The role of mare. My aunt's horse died, leaving its two-day-old baby foal orphaned. The situation is a desperate one. No one who knows horses would claim otherwise. It is not rare for a baby horse in these circumstances to lack the will to live or to encounter complications that otherwise endanger its life. But, lucky for all, Jamie had just arrived in Black River Falls to spend five weeks on the homefront. Both Mom and Jamie are job-free for the rest of the summer and theoretically capable of waking up every two hours to bottle-feed an infant horse. Mom says that raising a baby horse in such a manner is actually more labor-intensive than raising a baby. Mom comes from the 'raise yourself' school of child rearing, so this is not an exaggeration. Jamie and the horse have thoroughly bonded.
It would appear that Jamie has given the baby horse reason to live.
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