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Oct 6 08 4:01 PM
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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Oct 6 08 4:13 PM
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Oct 6 08 4:22 PM
I am so sorry. I don't know if it would help you, but it would make me feel better to know that it's a painless way to go and she won't suffer at all. It sounds pat, but when you really think about that and focus on that, it is extremely comforting.
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Oct 6 08 4:36 PM
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?
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...
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Oct 6 08 5:26 PM
Boys are like purses. You're always going to have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you'll always kind of like, right? That's your purse that you wear everywhere. Then you have that gorgeous bag you want everyone to see you with. But the gorgeous bag is usually an asshole...or costs a lot of money. Then you have like those other purses that you really like but don't really want to be seen with. -- Lauren Conrad, Laguna Beach
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Oct 6 08 5:52 PM
Chocolate Nut wrote: Thank you Badge. I think I'm going to go out there tomorrow evening and braid her mane and while listening to my ipod or something. She's kept outside 24/7 but many people have been coming this week to say goodbye to her. I just feel like I'd be abandoning her if I left her while she was passing... Thats how i feel exactly...as hard as it would be to watch it i think i would still rather be with my boy till the end...you know...partners for life type deal...through the good and bad
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Oct 20 08 9:55 AM
Natty Bumppo wrote:
i am always amazed that people feel the need to ask if roaching is the answer. roaching is never the answer. never. not even if your horse's mane is on fire and the only way to put it out is to cut it off. it'd look better singed off from an out of control fire than from being roached. the end.
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