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> If someone can afford to shoe a horse. Can afford to fuel a truck. Can
> afford camping fees to horse camp. And can afford new tack...then they
> sure as heck as afford to humanely euthanaize a horse, pay for a
> backhoe or call a rendering truck.
>
> I do not and will never support the slaughter of horses. They are
> companion animals, just like our dogs and cats.

I agree with Raven.  I have an 18 year old Morgan gelding who was crippled 
by a previous owner.  He has no cartlidge in his rt front pastern joint, and 
lots of bone spurs developing in there.  There is nothing the doctors can do 
for him.  I did try to find a home for him but was not comfortable letting 
him go.  So I keep him here as a Pasture Potato.  He gets bute on the days 
when he's hurting and Arthri-soothe to keep him comfortable.  The day he 
can't go out into the pasture at a trot with the others, or spends the day 
lying down because he is in too much pain, is the day that the vet will come 
and take his pain away.  And I will be there loving him and comforting him 
until the pain is gone.

Patty Israelson



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