A phone call that no horse owner wants to get

[Stacie_and_Jed]

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I think applecart meant that because she has had phone calls resulting in the deaths of her horses to have a phone call saying he was alive and on a green would be nicer. Ie anythings better than a call to say your horse had died.

I maybe wrong but thats how I read her note.

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I understand that.
She said music to her ears, which i took as she wouldnt be worried. I too may be wrong.

 

[quirky]

In 20+ yrs of horse ownership, I have never recieved "one of those" calls thankfully.
Yes, my pony has got out of the field in the past but the YO dealt with it and I only found out after.
We were in much trouble when they decided that the grass on the local cricket pitch looked greener than their field

 

[mtj]

Well I'm on the fence.

Once the sick feeling in my stomach on reading the start of the post disapeared, I actually found it quite funny.

The sick feeling was because I have also had one of those "calls" when my mare was killed (witnessed) by another mare.

Nailed will be feeling extremely raw at this stage, so I think a lot of understanding is appropriate.

I know I had trouble sleeping for some time after . Every time you shut your eyes you visualise what you think was happening to your horse.

On a happier note I'm delighted to hear that all ended safely in bexandspooky's post.

 

[Stacie_and_Jed]

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In 20+ yrs of horse ownership, I have never recieved "one of those" calls thankfully.
Yes, my pony has got out of the field in the past but the YO dealt with it and I only found out after.
We were in much trouble when they decided that the grass on the local cricket pitch looked greener than their field

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Oopsie!!

 

[NR99]

Poor you - personally every Sat/Sun early doors call that one of my lot get at home in the winter, I shoot out of the bed panicking it will be one of the liveries calling to say there is something wrong with your horse as I have twice had a nasty call like this. May as well be on the early morning rota more often than not as once you're up you're up.

So I sympathise with you x

 

[brighteyes]

I'm just glad all's well! I nearly didn't open the post...


For the others who replied saying it wasn't so bad, unless the horses' field was directly next to the school lawn and entry was via a gate and no other exit was available, then I presume a trip up a road would have been made. Any trip up a road is hazardous. The thought of what a herd of escapee horses could accomplish by way of accidents and damage is terrifying, so yes, once you know that they have made it to the 'safe off road patch' surely one's next thought would be where might they be off to next???? Panic NOT over, by a long chalk.

Check your public liabilty cover

 

[LankyDoodle]

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I agree with Nailed!!! I have twice been rung in the morning, once to tell me my horse was in trouble and the vet was on his way and could I get to yard ASAP (horse had in fact died of a heart attack) and another call at work on my first day at a new job, by the vet at the hospital my horse had been at for three weeks, telling me the sad news that my beloved horses joint had reopened and he was ringing for permission (actually not permission as permission was not needed and it was more of a courtesy call) to have him PTS. I have also been rang at work on another occassion (this time in the afternoon) to say my horse had hurt his leg, it was urgent, could I get to the yard, vet on way. I drove like a bat out of hell only to arrive minutes before the vet that had a shorter drive than me, to find my horse with a castrophic fatal compound fracture of his tibia. So to find myself getting a phone call about my horse grazing on a school lawn would have actually been music to my ears. x

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Well as it happens, I don't think there's a person here that doesn't agree with nailed that the phonecall that your horse's life is DEFINITELY in danger (ie colic) is worse than a phonecall to say they have escaped (depending of course on the circumstances of the escape - have they escaped onto the M5 or have they escaped onto a bridlepath?). However, the OP did not at any point make the assumption that her phonecall was the worst any horseowner could receive.

I, too, have lost a horse quite recently, although far less recently than Nailed; and I agree that the worst call is the one that tells you it's the end, but I can still appreciate someone else's anguish when something like this happens.

 

[3BayGeldings]

All the OP said was " a phone call no horse owner wants to get" - which is the truth! She didnt say "the WORST phone call an owner can get", did she?

People need to stop taking things so sensitively and personally.


ETA: I dont know why it says im replying to LadyT - was replying to nobody inparticular!

 

[bailey14]

Stacie_and_Jed thanks for your comments, thank god common sense prevailed! Just Helen, I wasn't taking anything personally nor was I being sensitive, I was just agreeing with Nailed in what she was saying. I was not saying it wasn't dangerous for your horse to be on the road, nor was I belittling the OP (sorry if I have upset you at all OP) for her comments about worrying about her horse, I merely was trying to express the light hearted attitude 'oh well, worse things happen at sea'. AND PLEASE - NO DREADFUL STORIES OF WOE FROM SAILORS AND THE LIKE now I have used that expression. Oh dear oh dear, seems like no one is able to express their views without people jumping on the bandwagon, turning everything inside out, diagnosing and rediagnosing, etc etc etc. Whatever happened to freedom of speech - or did I dream it??!! x

 

[chestnut cob]

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not really the worst in the scheme of things...

'your horse has colic/laminitis/lymphangitis/broken leg/gapping wounds are much worse

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Unless the OP has edited her post, she didn't say it was the worst. She said it was "a call no horse owner wants to get"....

 

[random_rider]

Crikey i think i would have pooped myself!!

 

[loopyloop]

Funny you should say that applecart..........:

the story begins out at sea and involves a little boat, let me continue..............

 

[LankyDoodle]

LOL!

 

[bailey14]

ha, ha! Very good x

 

[Stacie_and_Jed]

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Stacie_and_Jed thanks for your comments, thank god common sense prevailed!

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I sense sarcasim!

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Whatever happened to freedom of speech - or did I dream it??!! x

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No you werent dreming dear, but we were mearly having a discussion. No one was jumped on as far as im aware?!?

 

[Taffster]

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Ooh, never nice - my worst one was when my mum had gone riding on my horse I got a call and it showed from her mobile, I answered it and it although i spoke to my mum first i was then passed to a paramedic!!!

I heard the words "accident" and "Horse" and the worst images came into my head. Thankfully it wasn't too bad, mum had 'decanted' from the horse but he'd just gone back home. It was the Ambulance that flew round the bend, sirens blazing that had startled him and caused him to run!

Another one I had was telling me my mum's horse was dead on the road. I saw the stationary traffic on the main road from the end of our drive and panic set it. It wasn't my mum's horse although sadly there had been a horse killed but the terror that goes through you when you get 'those calls' is just awful!

Glad yours turned out to be all ok though!

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I think those must be the worst ones, when someone tells you your horse has done something and it turns out it hasnt at all!!!!
I would expect someone to actually find out the facts before they rung me to tell me such a thing.
I had a call from a friend/yo (male, dealer, old farmer type, who doesnt use vets unless a serious emergency he does everything himself) I was 39 miles away at work and he asked if i was driving - well that was it absolute mad panic for 1, he never calls me 2, he never calls a vet.
Then all i remember was artery - blood and i cant stop it, vets on its way but think it will be too late!

I drove 39 miles in record time couldnt see the road for tears, and thankfully he had used an old remedy and couterized (sorry bout spelling) the artery ( a mushroom type thingy that grows in the field about 25cm in diameter no idea what they are, but thank god he had one) - the vet turned up 20 minutes after me, the horse was so close to the end the yard was full of blood and the yo's wife had downed a couple of glasses of bacardi with the shock. I wish never again to receive such a call. He never recovered but he lived

 

[bailey14]

No I wasn't been sarky Stacie_and_Jed, I was thanking you for stepping in, in my defence. And I didn't say I had been jumped on either. xxxxxxx

 

[Stacie_and_Jed]

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No I wasn't been sarky Stacie_and_Jed, I was thanking you for stepping in, in my defence. And I didn't say I had been jumped on either. xxxxxxx

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Oh bugger, im sorry. I do hate the net some times. You read & take things completely the wrong way.

 

[ladyt25]

Basically really the OP and quite rightly was just saying is 'that' phonecall noone wants to get cos you instantly fear the worse and many of us have been there so we all know that horrible sinking feeling you get and where the blood just drains form your head. It's horrible and thankfully in the OPs case it wasn't anything terrible.

I think most of us were just empathising with the general feeling of receiving such calls.

(oh and this will put as a reply to someone but obviously it is just a general comment on the post!)

 

[Booboos]

I am not entering the 'is this the worst thing ever' debate, just replying to the OP: very stressful situation! Really glad everyone is OK. I once got a similar phonecall to say my horse was on the golf club and no one could catch him

 

[MrsMozart]

I think I read the title as Nailed did.

Recent events make us immediately think of 'the phone call that no horse owner wants to get' as being the one that says 'Your horse is dead/dying'.

I read it that way due, in part, to losing my horse last October, and the events of today, when someone did get a call saying her horse was dying

Glad OP's horses are okay.

 

[PapaFrita]

I've had TWO calls that froze my blood; one when PF jumped out of the jumping lane and they said I'd need a vet. Another one when the Homicidal Horse got out and chased PF and A. A got the worst of it. Until you actually get the all clear, you always imagine the worst, don't you?

 

[gails]

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I have had two horrid phone calls, the first just like yours to say my horses had escaped and were on the road but no they weren't and secondly the worst phonecall of my life.

Are you driving ?
Yes
Can you please pull over ?
I'm so sorry to tell you your horse has died ???

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Poor you, that is the one I dred daily. I have had the call for a split leg, it looked worse then it was.

I did not need the call that he had escaped, as he lived at home at the time, I looked out of my front windown to see him running past, it was 11am on a saturday morning, he ran down our lane and went quite a long way to end up crossing the a46 duel carriage way roundabout and headed into lincoln, it was the worst thing

 

[Maizy]

Having had two horses cavorting down a major A road just yesterday - I know exactly how you feel OP. Thankfully there was no damage to horses or humans.

 

[4leggedfurries]

7pm August 11 2007, 'rachel you need to get down here, Netties hurt his leg, and I think you'd better call the vet' raced the 10 or so miles in record time, about 5 mins, through *ahem*

2 red lights, thankfully you could see the other side knew there wasnt anything there knowing without being told that my worst nighmare had come true, pulled onto the yard just as the vet called to say 'I'm so sorry' Never ever want to experience that again

Its the moment everyone dreads getting a call like that, so glad the op's ponios are ok bet you gave them a massive hug when you realised they were safe!