My Two-Year-Old Daughter Loved Spending Hours with the Neighbor’s Horse — Then We Learned Something That Changed Everything === Growing up, I was the kind of kid who always smelled faintly of hay. My childhood was stitched together with mornings spent feeding chickens, afternoons brushing ponies, and summer evenings chasing barn cats across the fields. Animals weren’t just pets to me; they were companions, teachers, and a source of comfort I could never quite explain. So when I became a parent,

MY TWO-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER COULDN’T GET ENOUGH OF THE NEIGHBOR’S HORSE — UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES. === Growing up, I was the kind of kid who always smelled faintly of hay. My childhood was stitched together with mornings spent feeding chickens, afternoons brushing ponies, and summer evenings chasing barn cats across the fields. Animals weren’t just pets to me; they were companions, teachers, and a source of comfort I could never quite explain. So when I became a parent, I se