ACTHA Monthly September 2015 | Page 19

ACTHA Monthly | August 2015 | 19

The now 15 year old RD joined Patti's family in 2010. His prior owners were in Colorado on a cross-country horse camping trip when they saw him for the first time. They had rented stalls for the night from a horse trader. Standing in one of those stalls was a bright eyed 7 year old RD. All the rest of the horses were heads-down and depressed, it was quite sad to see. When the couple discovered the trader had only received the gelding the day before, they bought him on the spot and brought him home to San Diego. They didn't need another horse, but they couldn't bear to leave him and allow that light to go out of his beautiful eyes. Three years later they would sell him to Patti, where the next chapter of his life would begin.

Patti tells an interesting story about a visit with a Pet Psychic at a local horse show, where RD received a "reading". The psychic claimed that RD felt he had been kidnapped by

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