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Oct 6 08 4:55 PM
Chocolate Nut wrote: FreeFilly wrote: I'm very sorry to hear you have to put your mare down. I know this has to be very hard on you. I'm also sorry for the delay, Like you needed more stress. Maybe it's nature's way of giving you more time with her? More time to spend braiding her mane, and just being together. She is such a pretty little girl. I would love to hear more about her if you feel like talking about her. Do you mind me asking what's wrong with her, That you had to make this very hard choice? Willow is a 10 year old appendix QH. She was born on a backwater farm that thought you could go anywhere with pedigrees (Good or bad, as long as they were recorded). Around fall of last year Willow started to show up lame at a trot, and she had been reluctant to canter (or canter without bucking) as well. I got the vet out and he said that she had a genetic degenerative condition in the tendons of both of her front legs. He said it was common amung horses her build, with such heavy compact fronts and shoulders. I got 2 other opinions just to make sure, they agreed. I have known two other horses from the same farm that have also been diagnosed as chronically lame. Willows degeneration was rapid and although she wasn't being ridden, she was limping in the pasture at a walk consistantly by spring. She's now limping heavily, lots of head bobbing, and she stumbles. We haven't been able to get her feet done the past weeks either because she collapses if you pick up one of her feet for more than a few seconds. It's heart breaking...
FreeFilly wrote: I'm very sorry to hear you have to put your mare down. I know this has to be very hard on you. I'm also sorry for the delay, Like you needed more stress. Maybe it's nature's way of giving you more time with her? More time to spend braiding her mane, and just being together. She is such a pretty little girl. I would love to hear more about her if you feel like talking about her. Do you mind me asking what's wrong with her, That you had to make this very hard choice?
I'm very sorry to hear you have to put your mare down. I know this has to be very hard on you. I'm also sorry for the delay, Like you needed more stress. Maybe it's nature's way of giving you more time with her? More time to spend braiding her mane, and just being together. She is such a pretty little girl. I would love to hear more about her if you feel like talking about her.
Do you mind me asking what's wrong with her, That you had to make this very hard choice?
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