Anyone got any "shocking" stories?

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Just wondering if anyone has had any similar, or worse, stories to mine? Post em here, with pics if they apply.

Random post, but I came across the photo and had totally forgotten about it recently.

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Doesn't look particularly bad right? But my girl was so so so lucky. She was shot by some bastards with an air rifle. 1 inch higher and the consequences would have been unthinkable, sadly we never caught the [****] holes who did it. I am just so thankful it missed her eye, and that it didn't pierce the bone, but bounced off it. I'll never forget that day, when we got the phonecall to say some chavs in the field with a gun, get down here now, poor horses were lathered
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Anyone else had similar trouble? Some people deserve shooting.
 
Ohhhhh your poor girl, and you.

Nothing half as bad, but I did find when I went to collect my boy from his loan home, and 8 inch knife in his field, that small thing made my blood run cold
 
What a horrid thing to have happen to you both,pleased your girlie ok!!
My boy was only about 10mnth old,he and his 6yr old pal were out in the field(public footpath ran threw),they were living out,as it was summer!Some of the fencing had barbed wire
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(yes i learnt my lesson the hard way
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),we bought the boys in and they had razor clean cuts to their legs
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,barbed wire does not leave a clean cut,i still think to this day somebody had cut them in some way
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,he was stitched up and 2 days later we moved,wont entertain anywhere that has a public walkway through the field ever again!!
 
Oh poor girly! It reminded me of a mare at the saddle club when we lived in cyprus who was attacked by some vile person in the night it looked like thay had taken an apple corer and gouged half her face off she had to have the wound packed with gauze soaked in iodine it was awful!
 
Not the same context really as any intentional harm but my old girl (29) got a black torn in her eye this year. They bordered most of the field our previous yard and after 4yrs of being there had no problems then this: (hoping pic works!)

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Vet said it would be touch and go as there was damage to the surface of eye but he couldnt be sure if it was a pierce or scratch. Got all kinds of drugs and thankfully she came right.
This is the offending thorn:

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My old loan horse bucked out at another horse in a field bordering his and managed to bring his hind leg down over the fence post so the post was actually up inside his leg along side all the tendons
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. Myvet could put his whole arm up inside
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. Came sound eventually but basically destroyed one of the tendons that brings his hind leg through underneath him so he does look a bit odd when being ridden
 
I was at a friends house and her brother came in saying one of he mares had got in with the stallion and was bleeding. he ran up the road (100yds) to get her whilst friends mum rang vet (think half hour drive to nearest town btw).
when the girly came in, she had jumped the fence to be a tart, and had somehow opened up her belly from armpit to groin, just skin, but it had opened up like a book. took the vet 25mins to arrive, and 3 hours to stitch her back up. she actually lost very little blood (tho she was quite shocked) and what's more, she kept the foal! had to retired from eventing tho!

also.... when I was at uni a horse at the yard was scratching himself on a fence post and managed to step back thru the rails and lacerated his hock. the wound was 4 inches wide and about 8 inches long. it was a right pain to treat and 18hh of 3yo IDxtank had to be box rested for 6 months, and skin grafted and re-skin grafted before it healed properly. however, now you can hardly tell.
 
A horse I owned was rear ended by a car when we were out hacking. The horse pretty much sat on the bonnet and smashed the windscreen. The driver kept going and was pursued and then stopped by a guy who witnessed it in the car behind - the man said "he hadn't noticed that he had hit the horse....." Err right....

Horse ended up with something like 200 stitches internally and externally but did make a full recovery. This is such ancient history that what happened at the time was the horse was boxed back to my stables, by a kind local farmer as we didn't have transport. Horsey was then fully anaesthetised out in his field.

The anaesthetic made his back legs spasm so I had to hold them still whilst the vet stitched him up al fresco.

Quite a traumatic experience for a 15 year old girl! Needless to say I'm not keen on road work unless I absolutely have to do it.
 
Trailer came detached on the M5 (my friend's and she was towing), went across three lanes, hit the central reservation and flipped. Mine was thrown over the back ramp and broke her back, was pts at the scene. Friend's horse stayed in and came out with cuts and scratches. Thankfully no other vehicles etc were involved. It was a freak accident and not her fault at all.
 
We had trouble with kids in our field a few years ago they were firing a beebee gun at the horses and letting off fireworks, we didnt know at the time but were told later, my arab completly lost his mind over this and it took me a long time to even get a rug on and off him as the sound of the velcrow frightened him.He fully trusts me now but it took nearly three years before i got back on him again,B**s***ds!!!!!!.
 
A staffy, possibly cross pitbull type, chased and attacked one of my ponies when daughter and friends were out on a ride. The owner was too far away to stop it.

The child came off and the dog chased the pony home but lost it, then it turned on my daughter's cob, who had chased the loose pony home only to find the dog in the middle of the road.

The cob took off back to the woods where the other two ponies had stayed with injured child, and the owner asked if the child was ok then went off to look for his dog.

Meanwhile a neighbour saw the dog attacking the cob and ran the dog over in his white van. Robodog still got up and tried to bite cob, at which point cob stopped trying to kick dog, turned round and crashed large soup-plate sized hoof on dog's head. Bloody thing still got up but was rather dazed. Man drove up, shoved dog into back of car, and drove rapidly off. I had £300 vet's bill and a pony too traumatised to ever trust on a hack again.

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My mare and one of YO's were having a daft gallop when yo's slipped and landed on something sharp - to this day we still can't find it. I didn't see the initial wound but suffice to say it peeled her flank away like a butcher's knife and exposed the ribs. I think I'd have been sick!

She is fine now, has a shark-bite style scar on one side but it was touch and go for a while.
 
LOL! My shocking story isn't about my horse, but more what my horse did to me - as in, she broke pretty much all of the bones in my face... with her feet!
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But I guess I am just lucky to be alive! Which makes it ok!
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well not horse ones no but farmers son did shoot our stable cat when he was a few months old. Shattered his shoulder blade and he had to have his leg amputated. Farmers son "mistook him for a rabbit". Hmm, cos you get loads of black and white rabbits don't ya!

Still, he's done ok - 13 years later he's still going strong!
 
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