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penhwnllys_stardust

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Some time last year I read a little story on this forum it was on a thread about having our horses put to sleep, Well i think about this story all the time and it gave me a lump in my throat when i read it. I would love to find it so i can keep it and i've tried the usual searches with no luck so i'm hoping someone else will know it and send me a link or post it here. :)

It was about a hunter who was getting old and his owner rode him to the hunt yard and when the horn was blown he was shot, Thanks :')
 
penhwnllys_stardust said:
Some time last year I read a little story on this forum it was on a thread about having our horses put to sleep, Well i think about this story all the time and it gave me a lump in my throat when i read it. I would love to find it so i can keep it and i've tried the usual searches with no luck so i'm hoping someone else will know it and send me a link or post it here. :)

It was about a hunter who was getting old and his owner rode him to the hunt yard and when the horn was blown he was shot, Thanks :')
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Yes I remember that. I will have a look and see if I can find it, I believe I replied to the OP. x
 
penhwnllys_stardust said:
Thank you so much! the story has really stuck with me :)
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Yes it brought tears to my eyes too. What a wonderful and brave last thing to do for your best friend.

Here we go:

15 years ago, a friend of mine had an old hunter that was getting worse and worse with arthritis every winter. She had owned and enjoyed him all of her life and hunted him every week during the season as we lived on the estate and close to the kennels. On that last year she decided that he would not go through another winter in discomfort and that the time was right for him to go. On a misty early morning, she tacked him up as she did to go hunting and rode him through the woods and onto the kennels, where the kennelman waited to call out the dogs. There in the beauty and familiarity of the parkland the dogs ran around his feet excited and ready to go. My friend slipped off his saddle for the last time, the hunting horn was blown, the old horse lifted his head, pricked his ears in anticipation of the hunt ahead and he was shot.

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=378799&highlight=euthanasia&page=7
 
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