A nice family came out to see Vegas yesterday morning. I put her through her paces and she was a total rock star, even though it was windy and spitting rain at us. I explained to them just how green she is and her quirks. I told them how special she is and how amazing she is going to be with more time on her. When they left, I did my chores then messaged Jennie and told her that I thought our meeting went well. She said that they'd already contacted her and were very interested in adopting Vegas.
Fast forward to yesterday evening, I get a message from Jennie. They may want to pick Vegas up on Thursday. All I could think was, 'holy crap, that's really soon!' They apparently finished the paperwork yesterday and after a property inspection later today, Vegas will be officially adopted.
It feels like I'm having to return a half-finished book to the library. I'm not ready for her to go and she's not ready to go, but it seems that our time is up. I've done what I can and she has come a long way but I'm pretty bummed that I won't get to see the final product. And I'm going to miss her uber-fuzzy face greeting me every morning, wondering what we're doing today.
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For the next few days, as long as Vegas can handle it, we're moving into hyper-drive. I'm going to attempt ground-driving today, as she is not yet making the connection between voice commands on the ground and in the saddle. It's probably not going to go well at first, as I expect she will take off on me a few times before she starts to understand the concept. The goal: Vegas walking quietly under saddle, with breaks and steering and no outside help, around the round pen on her own before her people take her home. Fingers crossed.
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