Sucker-punched

[jackiedon]

I am so sorry!!!

 

[ninjapoodles]

Thank you all for your kind words. You are some sweet people.

Magic appears to have just laid down and died sometime today. We discovered her when we did evening chores. We'll call the state lab in the morning, but they are really weird about doing necropsies if there is too much decomp, which in this heat, may already be the case.

To add insult to injury, we're still paying off Victor's (horse) ginormous vet bill, and our ground is too rocky to dig a grave, so we'll have to somehow come up with a few hundred dollars to get a backhoe out here to bury the poor pony. IF the state lab will necropsy her, they will cremate her, included in the necropsy fee, because they use the necropsy for teaching purposes.

I'm just sick.

 

[FlockEweFarm]

I am soo sorry for your loss. Losing a horse is much like losing a human member of the family, and I dont say this lightly, when I lost my horse, and my only source of peace and sanity away from abuse and turmoil, I thought that my world had ended. I just know that with how you write and talk about your animals and critters in general, that the little pony had a wonderful life. I hope that the next few days brings you peace in the knowledge that you were a wonderful family for the pony, it looked very beautiful and sleek in its picture, and that is always a sign of a horse that is well loved. :aww

 

[ninjapoodles]

Thank you. Seriously--she was the BEST PONY EVER. Patient as the day is long, not a mean bone in her body. And sooooo pretty.

We told our daughter, but I don't think it's going to sink in until tomorrow, when she sees with her own eyes that her pony's gone. She loved her pony.

 

[ninjapoodles]

I know she was OK this morning, because she ate the tops off my Roma tomato plants again! Could that harm a horse/pony? I mean, she was tiny, and tomatoes are nightshades, but I never heard of such, if it is a danger.

I still can't really believe it. I mean, a SHETLAND. They're like little fireplugs.

 

[sara]

I'm so sorry, your daughter must be heartbroken.

 

[kinnip]

So sorry. That really was an exceptional Shetland, especially if she was friendly. I wish your daughter the best.

 

[ccrecelius]

Have you found out yet if they can find out what happened to her? I had one once colic on oak leaves, if you can imagine that. But there were signs before she died that something was wrong. I hope you can find out what happened. I am sorry about your loss. My horses are my babies!
Chris

 

[pattypenny]

do you have any wild cherry trees? I live in northwest ar. and mine are droping their leaves. They are deadly poison to cattle and horses when they die or get blown over in a storm.

 

[key west chick]

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of the death of my daughters TB. My daughter was 12 when it happened. The place we boarded her at kept halters on all the time and the horse rubbed her cheek on a tree and the halter got stuck on a branch nub. She twisted around and snapped her neck. Happened in seconds, someone saw her do it and before they could get off their horse to go get help she was dead. My daughter,now 19, cries every year.