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[RC] horses" passing on" - Cindy CollinsI know that this is a no-win topic, but I just couldn't walk away from it. I don't know anything about the situation that Mary described, but I do know that she makes a lot of assumptions. I think that everyone should read Julie Suhr's book and the chapter on horse deaths. As usual, Julie can say what many of us feel but can't express. I am often dismayed by people who spend literally thousands of dollars on a dying animal (horse, dog, cat, etc.), trying to prolong the animal's suffering for their own gratification and inability to let go and say good-bye. I have personally "put a bullet into the brain" of a suffering horse. This mare, who was in excruciating pain, dropped like a rock and never felt a thing. Her owner and I cried like babies over her body, but she was no longer in agony. My husband "put a bullet into the brain" of my favorite endurance horse when he finally fell down and could no longer get up. He was a magnificent animal who lived to run. There was nothing a vet could have done. He had numerous tumors that were pressing on his spine. We let him live as long as he could enjoy running around the pasture. At the end, I probably waited too long to let him go. We sat and cried with him and then had him buried in our back yard. He was everything that I wish I was and will never be. We didn't want a stranger (to him) with a dreaded needle to be the last thing he saw. He trusted our voices and our hands when we told him it was OK and it was time to sleep. So, please, just because you personally don't think you could deal with shooting a horse, don't assume evil about those of us that might. Cindy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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