Oh good grief people, maybe we should go back to arguing over something....this is just horribly sad.
I had my dearest and bestest (yes, it is a word in my world) friend come to the same end. It was September 11, 2000. Yes, a year before the "other" 9/11. He had broken his hip also, and so at age 26, after 5000+ endurance miles and sharing my childhood years growing up with him, he had to be put down. He is buried in the back yard, and has a real tombstone that my mother purchased. On it is says:
Petit Jets Shadow
(Booy)
May 14, 1974-Sept. 11, 2000
Miles I've gone and now I sleep
Then a little over a year ago, I had to put down my second endurance horse. He is buried in the backyard right next to Booy. Darget was 25 and had cancer. So, when the decision was made, I fed him his favorite treats, apples, carrots and alfalfa...until he was put down.
He didn't get a bought tombstone, but Angie McGhee made Darget one.
Now, can we argue again?????
Jody
--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Karen Everhart <rainbowmeadowsranch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The very first horse I ever bought as an adult lived with me for 28 years. Last Sept., I had to make the painful decision, as the result of a pathological hip fracture, to provide her with the gift of peace.
I placed her with her very best friend for a few days in a wonderful grass paddock. Gave her her favorite breakfast and in greater volume than normal. Then I led her, however slowly, into the middle of the paddock where I held her head and kept asking her to "go easy. go easy" as my wonderful friend, and Vet, injected the solution. Rainbow blinked once, went down quickly, and did not try to rise. As my tears of grief fell upon her mane, joined by those of my husband and our Vet, she took her last breath; no longer in pain, no longer unable to run with the herd.
It was the last gift I could give this mare who had cared for me for so many years.
She is buried in the meadow, with a rainbow colored stone marking her grave. I talk to her every time I pass by, thanking her for being such a loyal companion.
