Dreaming Fields Equine

11/05/2025

If you are a horse person, the picture tells the whole story.

Here at the end of the year when the veil thins, now that she has been gone over a year, and the pain bites less deep; perhaps I will tell you her story. The story of a Short Life- that Mattered.

Her name was Keiko. She was my Friend. I couldn’t save her. Her Sister waits still, while I dream of bringing her Home to Dreaming Fields.

11/04/2025

Maisie has settled in really well and using Vetrycin to treat the raw infected skin around her eye has made a huge difference in just six days-
I swear to you, this stuff is magic

10/29/2025

🫣😱impressive stickability

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

This sweet girl is Maisey.
She has had a really long day.

She’s already been unlucky once:
she was homeless and in a shelter,

and then very lucky, when her Mom adopted her. Since then it’s been mostly just her and mom, Together. Mom was disabled so they were always Together.

Maisey’s Mom wasn’t in close contact with her children. So the day Mom got sick and was taken to the hospital by ambulance, no one in the family knew. Maisey was Alone.

Luckily, the neighbor was Maisey and her Mom’s friend. She saw the ambulance and she started coming over to feed Maisey and let her out. But in between visits, Maisey was Alone.

Mom’s human children checked on her and found out she was in the hospital and unfortunately was in the transition to hospice care. Maisey’s mom had only one request- find someone to take care of Maisey.

Mom‘s Human kids have never met Maisey and someone told them that she didn’t like men and someone else told them that she didn’t like other dogs.

They went to their mom’s house and found the conditions that they had been living in were pretty awful. They started cleaning and they came to the house and worked on things.

Maisey’s Mom passed away. In between family working, and the neighbor Friend, Maisey was alone. 

Our local county animal shelter, switched from open admission to no kill a couple of years ago. They immediately filled up with unadoptable pitbull mixes and stopped taking in dogs. All of our other shelters and small rescues are flooded because we have no county shelter to handle strays- if you find a dog in Montgomery County Ohio, unless it is aggressive or obviously injured, you will be told to turn it loose again.

Maisey’s Mom’s human children were not able to take her in, but they tried really hard to find a place for Maisey to go. The family were given a list with 30 different organizations. They called every single one. No one had room for Maizey. The end of the month is coming the house reverts to the landlord on Friday. And Maisey was still waiting, Alone.

Maisey‘s mom‘s son asked his coworkers if they knew anyone who could help. Cate Palumbo works with him when I don’t steal her for Dreaming Fields events and she called me. 

Yes of course I will help. I set up to go and meet her do an evaluation: if she’s good with other dogs and she’s good with babies, she can come home with me as a foster while we take care of some minor medical issues and lose a bit of weight.

She has to be ok with my long-term blind foster, cat and foster human baby to come with me and honestly that’s not what I expected her to be.

Shelter dog supposed to be Shepherd and Rottweiler doesn’t like men doesn’t like other animals;
did not sound like a good candidate for Dreaming Fields Equine homebase. But I just have to meet her and see what she Says about who she is.

So we did. She is the softest sweetest, most willing personality. She is submissive, showing her belly. She melts into my body

The only thing that she keeps saying is my person left and never came home and I am Alone.

Let her meet baby. She did great so I packed her up and brought her home with me. She doesn’t mind the cat. She doesn’t mind the other dog she doesn’t mind my friends who’ve come over.

She is so emotionally attuned. I’ve had kind of a rough week and when I was talking with my friend and got a bit upset, she kept coming and checking on me.
She is a GOOD DOG. Her entire focus at all times is to try to anticipate what you want. She’s also likely Shepherd Collie or maybe Shepherd Aussie there’s no Rottie in her.

I have not had a dog that was Mine with me for a couple of years now and it is possible unless the perfect situation comes up, she may stay. Either way welcome Maisey to Dreaming Fields.

From now on she will not ever be Alone. I’ll take care of her now until she sees You again. You can sleep easy Mom.

10/21/2025

🧠💥 COPING MECHANISMS

(aka “Why you deep-clean the tack room, scroll TikTok till 2am, or suddenly decide to move to the Outer Hebrides and start an alpaca farm.”)

Let’s make it pony simple. 🐴
Because coping and keeping ourselves safe isn’t weakness , it’s your nervous system doing its best. Every behaviour once made sense, even if it doesn’t fit your life now.....

Meet the Five Ponies of Coping:

🤍 The Functional Pony – does the job, stays busy, looks fine. Keeps the yard spotless while quietly avoiding eye contact with emotions.
(This one’s the “I’m fine!” text when they are definitely not fine.)

🖤 The Flight Pony – runs. Changes stables, jobs, partners, entire continents. The emotional equivalent of a thoroughbred mid-spook.

(It’s not avoidance, it’s strategic relocation.)

🤎 The Freeze Pony – stands in the field, blank stare, brain buffering. No energy for fight or flight, just… stillness.

(If you’ve ever sat in your car after work for half an hour doing absolutely nothing—hi, that’s this one.)

💚 The Fawn Pony – people-pleases to stay safe. Nods, smiles, says “no worries!” while quietly disintegrating inside.

(The emotional service pony—adorable, exhausted, and due a week off.)

❤️ The Fight Pony – kicks the stable door when scared. Looks angry, but underneath it’s just panic in a saddle. Fierce loyalty, quick temper, heart of gold.

(This is why you argue with your loved one when you really just need a hug.)

💡Coping mechanisms and trauma responses aren’t bad. They’re clever adaptations that once kept you safe.

The goal isn’t to get rid of them.......it’s to recognise when the danger’s passed and the pasture’s finally calm.

10/14/2025

If you give a girl a horse…💜

10/05/2025

Beautiful