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WTF so a horse of mine died today.
15 years ago
I have (or had) three horses that are currently staying with my parents at their place. Apparently, my younger mare had been a bit off her feed starting Saturday. My dad, who seems to have an uncanny sixth sense when it comes to animals, called the vet, knowing it must have been serious. She had a fever of 105 (101 is normal for a horse) and a high pulse. The vet thought it was some kind of pneumonia or other infection type illness, so she was given antibiotics and my dad was supposed to monitor her and give her a shot today. If she didn't get better, the option was to take her in to a vet to hook her up to IVs.
Today, my dad went down to the barn half an hour earlier than he was supposed to, for some reason, to find her thrashing around in her stall. He talked to her and stroked her until she calmed down (I'm not sure how she let him near him since she was kicking and such), and then she died, maybe five minutes after he got there.
I learned all of this today (that she was sick and that she died) within the twenty minutes after I got off work.
WTF. This horse was 17 and healthy, as far as anybody knew. A big, strong mare who has never been sick a day in her life. I have another horse who is 33, so I thought she'd be the one to go first. The vet thinks it might have been an aneurysm or stroke that finished her off, but still. Wow.
Today, my dad went down to the barn half an hour earlier than he was supposed to, for some reason, to find her thrashing around in her stall. He talked to her and stroked her until she calmed down (I'm not sure how she let him near him since she was kicking and such), and then she died, maybe five minutes after he got there.
I learned all of this today (that she was sick and that she died) within the twenty minutes after I got off work.
WTF. This horse was 17 and healthy, as far as anybody knew. A big, strong mare who has never been sick a day in her life. I have another horse who is 33, so I thought she'd be the one to go first. The vet thinks it might have been an aneurysm or stroke that finished her off, but still. Wow.
Komamura1
~komamura1
sorry to hear about that horses are strange when it comes to injury and so on my horse comes up with cuts in the most random places.... from a empty grass pasture weird things just seem to happen to them
LOLverine
~lolverine
OP
Yeah, who knows. I've owned horses for 18 years and they're constantly injuring themselves somehow for no reason, though it's usually just superficial. Getting sick and dying is a bit beyond what normally happens, though.
Komamura1
~komamura1
that's true most are superficial, but you gotta think thats a big animal and they cant tell you where they hurt kind of sad really.. still sorry for your loss
lansiar
~lansiar
Shame to hear about something sudden like that :[
LOLverine
~lolverine
OP
Yeahhh, it was pretty sudden! The "funny" thing is that when my dad called to tell me, he asked me if my mom had told me already and I assumed he meant about her being sick (since she said she'd have him call me later), so we talked for about five minutes about everything that had happened today before I asked if he was going to have her put down, and he was like "she died already!!" I mean, it was like 20 minutes after I'd even learned she was sick at all... That's the trouble living with living in a different state, I guess.
lansiar
~lansiar
Ouch, that's a bit of a shocking way to find out.
ButterScotchPony
~butterscotchpony
:( I'm very sorry to hear that. I know what it's like to lose a companion like that, though I've never owned a horse myself. I've always taken it hard each time. My heart goes out to you.
IsaiahHalfBreed
~isaiahhalfbreed
thatt suxx :(
