Lovely excerpt. I'll check the other thread for the author and title.

When I was in high school we engineered a similar experience for Dad. One of the horses had foaled about a month earlier and the girls lead the little colt, Brandy, in to the room where Dad was sleeping. He was attracted to the strange sounds emanating from dear old Dad and went to investigate. Dad awoke to find himself eye to nose with a very curious and out of place horse-let. Fortunately there were no "accidents" to clean up.