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Post by gsdmom on Oct 3, 2007 20:21:13 GMT -5
I was SO excited that I forgot to thank djrepp! This is going to mean so much to Sarah. I can't even begin to tell you. She has registered for this board so maybe she will be able to tell you herself.
Kathy
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Post by gsdmom on Oct 4, 2007 0:28:10 GMT -5
Thanks also to calypso. You are both awesome. I'll watch the video tomorrow. My computer is just now working. Sarah was able to watch it tonight and called crying. At least we now have a glimpse of who she was before we met her. We will never forget her.
Kathy
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Post by horsecrazy on Oct 5, 2007 9:21:35 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
This is Sarah. I just wanted to thank everyone for all of your kind words. The race video of Forever is really neat. She looks so powerfull and so happy. Her long beautifull tail trails behind her as she pulls away from the other horses coming down the homestretch. Thank you so much for finding it for me.
-Sarah
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Post by Tockita on Oct 5, 2007 9:29:40 GMT -5
Well now I want to see!
I'm glad that you are able to have that.
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Post by mykingdomforahorse on Oct 8, 2007 3:55:59 GMT -5
I'm so sorry to read you lost Forever. I lost my 21 yr old Arab to strangulation colic at the end of July 2007, and he went down in the middle of the night, so the crucial window of treatment was lost. I wouldn't have put him through surgery, due to the pain involved and his age. He was my love, and my first horse. I only had him 4 years. It was so hard to say goodbye.
He was just fine at about 1 a.m., and then late the next morning, he was already down. The vet came out and we did mineral oil and other treatments, but nothing helped. When he no longer would rise, I spent the night on the ground with him on a bed of hay with his head in my lap. It was still Monsoon Season and looked like rain but miraculously, it didn't. I prayed he'd live, and I prayed it wouldn't rain. Wrong prayer answered, but at least it didn't rain, because he wouldn't go under the shelter.
We put him down the next morning, head still in my lap, as I couldn't bear to have him in pain any longer, hoping he'd turn the corner, and he was only getting worse.
It reached the point where I was relieved when the vet came to euthanize because I couldn't stand him being in pain another second. He is the first horse I've ever lost.
It's the hardest, hardest thing, and just thinking about it still brings me to tears. I'll never get over it, and that's okay. He was so worth it. And he didn't go to slaughter, where he'd been headed. And he was loved, sound, and happy.
It gets easier with time, but it's never easy.
Instead, I think of it like, before I was born, I lined up a bunch of animals who'd be in my life, and although I grieve for those I lose, there's another one out there somewhere, next in line, waiting for me, and waiting for me to fulfill my promise.
Em
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Post by Tockita on Oct 8, 2007 10:44:48 GMT -5
Em thats really hard. With MayZing, she had run into the fence the night before avoiding another horse. She hit it so hard she split her hoof badly. The next morning she was acting colicy and they called the vet and gave her some oil and banamine. The vet called and said he was on another call but would get back to her in an hour. Before he called back May Zing had already begun to throw herself down and refuse to rise unless great force was used. One of the times she flung herself, she hit her head into a tree but luckily for her, unlucky for Angi her hand was there. I was on the way over when she called me in tears to say May Zing wasn't going to make it. Even if I were there with the trailer already there was no way to get her in it and to the hospital safely. She was just waiting for Doc to save her from the pain. Doc took a quick look at her and said she was probably ruptured, and I wonder now if she somehow hurt herself on the fence, and had a small tear, or swelling form it and perhaps that caused it? We don't know for sure, just that Angi is missing her. We were there yesterday and Lilly the usually busy, in your face to get love mustang is droopy and sad. Her eyes are even down and sad looking. You can tell she is depressed. May Zing and Lilly were #1 and #2 lead mares and ran the herd when there was not a strong gelding around. Angi is spending some extra time just loving on Lilly because she just looks so lost, it made me cry.
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Post by horsecrazy on Oct 8, 2007 14:10:30 GMT -5
Em,
Thank you so much for your kind words. Forever is the first horse that I have ever lost to. I really appreciate what you said about the next animal being out there waiting. I know there is another one somewhere for me and eventually with time I will find them. Sometimes it is just hard to move on to the next one. Expecially when you had such high hopes for this one and you never got the chance to see what they could reallly do.
I keep seeing Forever standing in her pen looking at the other horses. What I remember about her the most is when one of our other horses (Colter) would charge the fence at her becuase he is the herd leader, Forever would stand there with her head held high and look at him like "What do you think your doing. I'm a lot bigger than you and Duh, there is a fence there." It was so funny to watch Colter charge at her and she would just stand there.
Sarah
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Post by gsdmom on Oct 8, 2007 17:10:12 GMT -5
Sam and Deb just sent some pictures from the day Forever was riden by Jeff. There are some really nice ones there. Thanks so much to Sam for taking the time to look for the pictures. Forever was so beautiful. Tears are falling again.
Kathy
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