A lot of kids dream of the day someone agrees to buy them a horse. For most, though, it’s not exactly a practical purchase, and so that dream just remains a dream. For Kimberly Lewis, though, it actually came true, but not until she was a grown-up, and not before she learned a bit more about being selfless and kinder than the average horse-demanding kid.
As a gift, her husband said he’d buy her a horse; anyone she wanted. After checking out some horses, Lewis was having a hard time feeling a real connection to any of them. Driving home, though, Lewis spotted the horse she’d been looking for.
The horse was in a field at an animal shelter and was far from the majestic creature that she might have initially imagined. Instead, this horse was in a truly, and worryingly, sorry state. “She was a heartbreaking sight,” Lewis remembers.
“Total skin and bones, hair matted, hooves overgrown.” And that’s when Lewis knew that this sad, lonely, and the mistreated horse was the one she’d been looking for all along. She wanted nothing more than to give the horse the chance to run, play, and enjoy life, like so many other rescued horses across the country.
