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Kanuma
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haveing been in a similar situation to some of those mentioned above twice, you can never realy tell what is going to happen with a horse. on a side note; Bea have you ever been to a horse market (not one of the fancy ones, but one on a par with beeston etc) most of the horses that go through there are broken down old ponies who either go for meat or get taken by dealers and buted up. it would be much kinder to have them put to sleep.
as for my lot, if anything happened to me and my family (which is rather large) then:
Pride would be gifted to a friend who knows him well, he has been abused before and has taken enough chunks out of everyone (he has picked me up by my elbow before) for us all to know that if she couldnt take him then the kindest thing for him would be to have him PTS before he killed someone, he is healthy and happy but he is 23 and the only way now is down.
Harvey would also be gifted to said friend or perhaps gifted to a charity, he is 23 a gorgeous pony and very active, starting to stiffen up a bit, but would make an ideal 1st pony for a relatively competant person as he can get a bit wizzy.
stan would be sold back to his previous owner as i had to sign a contract with her saying that if it ever became nessecary for me to sell him she would be offered him first at half price.
Rian im not to sure about, he has lots of back problems and finds it difficult to be ridden other then hacking as he cant bend properly, he would also go to a friend but failing that would probably be PTS as in the wrong hands he could go bad very quickly and who wants a 15hh purebred neurotic arab, that has a 3 inch stride and massive back problems possible stifle problems and is a bit of a handful to handle.
if any of them needed retirement (due to injury etc) then they would stay here as a companion.
the 2 ive been through this situation with would be Squeak, he was my first proper pony, he got colic one day and it was bad, very bad infact, we had the option of takeing him to leahurst and haveing it opperated on. it was a 40min drive to leahurst, the vet gave us a 40% chance that he would survive the operation IF he survived the trip there. we decided that we would rather have him PTS at home then put him through that. it was good that we did, because when we got the autopsy results back he had a burst absess in his gut and had we taken him to have surgery he would have had to been PTS on the operateing table.
the other was with OSCAR, he was a gorgeouse 15.2hh hunter type that my mum had, he had been in a stable fire but after many years of care was physicaly fine capable of doing anything he could do before the fire. mentaly however he was a mess, if you went in his stable you had to go in in pairs (one to distract him and his teeth the other to get the headcollar on), he had a fence round his stable because he would come over the door at you. he associated people with the changeing of bandages which had obviousely been quite painful for him. mum tried everything with this horse, she turned him out in a secluded field with just one other horse, but he would still attack you if you went in and kids used to go into the field to pat the ponies. the crunch came when oscar came over his stable door at one of the stable girls, he picked her up by her ear, dragged her back over the stable door and shook her till her ear ripped off. mum decided at that point it was too risky to keep him around any longer, so he was PTS. he was only about 9 years old but in situations like that what would you have done???
as for my lot, if anything happened to me and my family (which is rather large) then:
Pride would be gifted to a friend who knows him well, he has been abused before and has taken enough chunks out of everyone (he has picked me up by my elbow before) for us all to know that if she couldnt take him then the kindest thing for him would be to have him PTS before he killed someone, he is healthy and happy but he is 23 and the only way now is down.
Harvey would also be gifted to said friend or perhaps gifted to a charity, he is 23 a gorgeous pony and very active, starting to stiffen up a bit, but would make an ideal 1st pony for a relatively competant person as he can get a bit wizzy.
stan would be sold back to his previous owner as i had to sign a contract with her saying that if it ever became nessecary for me to sell him she would be offered him first at half price.
Rian im not to sure about, he has lots of back problems and finds it difficult to be ridden other then hacking as he cant bend properly, he would also go to a friend but failing that would probably be PTS as in the wrong hands he could go bad very quickly and who wants a 15hh purebred neurotic arab, that has a 3 inch stride and massive back problems possible stifle problems and is a bit of a handful to handle.
if any of them needed retirement (due to injury etc) then they would stay here as a companion.
the 2 ive been through this situation with would be Squeak, he was my first proper pony, he got colic one day and it was bad, very bad infact, we had the option of takeing him to leahurst and haveing it opperated on. it was a 40min drive to leahurst, the vet gave us a 40% chance that he would survive the operation IF he survived the trip there. we decided that we would rather have him PTS at home then put him through that. it was good that we did, because when we got the autopsy results back he had a burst absess in his gut and had we taken him to have surgery he would have had to been PTS on the operateing table.
the other was with OSCAR, he was a gorgeouse 15.2hh hunter type that my mum had, he had been in a stable fire but after many years of care was physicaly fine capable of doing anything he could do before the fire. mentaly however he was a mess, if you went in his stable you had to go in in pairs (one to distract him and his teeth the other to get the headcollar on), he had a fence round his stable because he would come over the door at you. he associated people with the changeing of bandages which had obviousely been quite painful for him. mum tried everything with this horse, she turned him out in a secluded field with just one other horse, but he would still attack you if you went in and kids used to go into the field to pat the ponies. the crunch came when oscar came over his stable door at one of the stable girls, he picked her up by her ear, dragged her back over the stable door and shook her till her ear ripped off. mum decided at that point it was too risky to keep him around any longer, so he was PTS. he was only about 9 years old but in situations like that what would you have done???