Gypsy

September 13, 2016: A page of Darwyn turns…. Gypsy16 years ago, I took him in as a boarded owner’s horse…. Within months of his arrival, his owners were faced with the sudden death of one of their family members, forcing them to part with their horse, Tzigane.
Tzigane then joined my little group of survivors….I was working part-time outside the home to take care of all these little people, as the association was still so young that finances were too meagre to cover the costs of the horses I had taken in. At the time, I lived on a farm with my twenty or so horses. In the mornings, I rushed to feed them and put them out to pasture before going to work at the office, and in the afternoons, I cleaned the stables, looked after the horses and maintained the farm… I was 25 at the time, in 2000. By living the daily life with horses, unique bonds with horses are created and remain forever….
With the lease on the farm I was renting coming to an end, I decided to move my horses back to a stable and put my retirees in the canton of Fribourg to offer them a green retirement.
Tzigane spent many years at Tatroz until 2004, when he moved to the Bois Maillot estate, where he spent another ten years grazing. Until, in June 2014, the weight of the years began to take its toll on his general condition, and he returned to the Refuge with his acolytes Atlon and Saratoga. For the past 2 years, Tzigane has been pampered, pampered, pampered, loved and finally cared for with so much attention by the whole team that today, surrounded by everyone, Tzigane breathed his last.
For the past 10 days, a digestive problem (suspected transit paralysis) has prompted us to decide to spare him from a painful end.
A mixture of feelings comes over me…
The sadness of seeing a horse who has become a friend leave us, the pride of having been able to offer him so many years of retirement, but also a feeling of joy when I look at all the people who have met him, who have sponsored him, cared for him and, above all, loved him…
Thank you all for having contributed to his happiness on earth…and from now on, it’s in the other world that our little horse will continue to make his long, distinctive noises…
Hi little hafling…you’re going to leave a big hole….