Emotive subject- after being put to sleep...

I think it was about £200 incl having him collected. I got it back in a plastic bag though in a cardboard box!!!! (it was INCREDIBLY heavy!!!!!) I wasn't asked what I wanted.... So never said a nice box or anything. Didn't matter as I don't think I'd have kept him on my windowsill or anything. I was quite happy to scatter him.
 
The reason for asking is that the man who pics up the horses here has said that he will pay up to £1000 for a carcass, is it wrong to consider this??
 
charlie76 said:
The reason for asking is that the man who pics up the horses here has said that he will pay up to £1000 for a carcass, is it wrong to consider this??
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It's not at all wrong to consider it; in fact if you didn't, I'd think you were a sentimental fool with more money than sense TBH! I think as long as they are humanely dispatched, then once they're dead, they're dead and you must do what suits you. If you need that money to start again then why not take advantage of that offer, you'd be silly not to but I can understand why some people choose not to as well.
I find that amount strange though, are you sure it's not on the hoof price although even then, it's a very high price? I know someone from around here who will (or did) give you about £350 per horse but would take them standing; when he got enough he'd take a lorry load to Potters. I could never use him, my imagination would run riot so I would always PTS here at home and jigger that money; if he had taken the carcasses I would have thought about it - and done hounds out of a meal!
 
When Sid went, I didn't get a lot of choice. he was pumped full of drugs at the hospital and then went be injection there. In my head he would have gone at home and my current horse allowed to say good bye, however she knew and both me and Ru grieved together. After Sid was PTS I left his body with the hospital for disposal, as what was left was not my sid. I didn't want his ashes as I wanted memories and photos. That is just me and my choice
 
I think it depends on what your own beliefs are.

I personally think when an animal is dead, in this case horses, that’s it, therefore to me it doesn’t matter what happens to the body, providing its disposed of correctly and legally.

We have had a few shot and then taken to a local abattoir, I presume they are stripped down and the offal is taken away to other animal feed factories.

I don't like the thought of something rotting away in the ground, however on the other hand in the past I'd of wanted them to buried in the field but now if I was given that option, I wouldn’t because I think I'd get too upset and be reminded of the loss.

I don't think there is a right or wrong, so long as its right for the owner.
 
Ooh, this thread is back so I'll add something I thought of after my initial reply...

One thing that really helps me is trying to make something good come out of a loss. Like others have said about preventing waste or donating parts for teaching etc. I still have a standing order to WHW as it now is in memory of a horse who was PTS, sadly too young, back in the ILPH days. Sure, the link is indirect, but E's memory is improving the life of equines around the world. It doesn't help him but it does help me, and many other horses.
 
My old faithful boy was sent to hunt kennels........sounds harsh but his main love in life was hunting, he had to be shot as it was kindest quickest way to go being the way he was, he knew absoloutely nothing and was full of guiness and rather chilled out at the time. Quick slightly brutal but instant.

It was done by a man he knew and therefore made total sense to "recycle" him. God that sounds really harsh in cold light of day but it just fitted him.

Oddly I wouldnt do it with charlie and the others?? they dont do hunting....that makes no sense at all but for him it just fitted him and his ways and the life he had had.

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Mostly we've had our local "man" come out and put our horses down at the livery yard he has always shown great respect and has then taken carcase away. When my last mare developed a twisted gut last year she was pumped full of drugs, when it became obvious the end was coming the vet came back and did the deed, a lovely sunny day in her field with a little chum with her and some of her favourite humans around, even the dogs and cat came to say goodbye. Then our usual man came to take the carcase away.

The spirit had gone all that was left was a shell I kept some of her tail amd memories of a wonderful mare.

Each to his own I say.
 
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