Dharma Darling
It was a simple mission : We were headed to Bertram, TX, to adopt a burro as a companion to eight-year old Janet, which we’d adopted a year before in Belton, TX – a burro that was shy and fearful of people and that the horses generally shunned. We also had three mustangs, two ponies and a Morgan-cross filly, so we didn’t need any more horses. Just one burro. Well, we thought, if we see a mustang there we just can’t pass up, we’ll adopt just one mustang – no more. On May 29, 2008, my husband, Sherman, and I drove down to Belton early with to our third Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction. We headed for the pen of jennies, and immediately, a woolly-looking two-year old came up to the panel to sniff our hands. S he was a cute as a button, and I announced, this is our burro! We took note of her tag number and had some time to kill before the auction began, so we walked the perimeter to look at the mustangs. Because of our limitations as trainers (we’re not), we never even look at mustan