She's not suffering suffering right now - but she can't move easily with out painkillers. She now is moving good enough to come ot the gate, eat, walk around and drink... but when I run out of pain killers, i'll b ein trouble. I had her on it 2x a day, but was able to do it just once a day once I got her up and moving. And even then, the 60 dollar container of bute is only going to last maybe a month, on top of the weight gainer, sweet feed, MSM powder....
anymore vet visits and it's cheaper to just put her down. I'm not attached to her. I've had her just less then a year. She came to me old and crippled, which wasn't what I was expecting when I bought her. The story they gave me was not the horse I ended up with
I tried hard to get her moving, up to a healthy weight... but she's just too old and too sick/crippled to be happy with out lots of pain meds, and I just cannot afford hundreds a month for an old horse i'm not attached too.
For the amount I could spend in 3 months, I could buy a young, semi-green broke horse who just needs work to be ridden safely for a few weeks.... you know? A healthy one. That takes almost no effort. If I'd had the horse for 20 years, I could see spending a lot for quality of life management... but not for a horse I got to ride 3x, and then called it quits because I could tell she was in too much pain to move.
