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The discussion is about selling your golden oldies, but what happens to our horses / horse when/ if we go before them.

Do you think there is an age cut off point when its too old to own horses. I have always thought my current batch are my last because we'll be growing old together and when they reach their twilight years i'll be of an age when I don't want the work.

Also I have life cover for them so that if I go before them they will be looked after as my parents love them and have their own horses but couldn't afford mine aswell.

What does everyone else do.
 
Mine are written into my will, with money to cover them for life and to go to a friend (yes she does know!!!) who owns a farm so plenty of space etc.

I do need to change, and this post has just jogged my memory as my old horse who I had to have pts'd 2.5years ago is also included - think I need to ammend!!!!
 
As my daughter is 20 I am hoping she will carry on looking after the oldies if anything should happen to me. Particularly as they are all hers! My will does state that I want dogs pts if family are unable to keep them, and they are aware of that (the kids that is not the dogs).
 
Troggy has put in writing that should we not be able to keep Toffee in the event of her death, she is to be pts. Beano is a youngster, so if anything happened he would be sold on. It is hard to contemplate, but it is the responsible thing to do. Decide what you want to happen, and make those wishes known.
 
I think its really good that everyone has given the issue some thought, everyone has different plans for their animals but they have all been considered with the animals best interests at heart.
 
This has been discussed within the family and my sister and I will take my parents dogs and cats if they outlive our parents. Our horses will be looked after by which ever sister outlives the other and when that one also falls off the twig, my 'sort of foster daughter' will deal with any animals left, either taking them on herself or having them pts if she can't deal with them.
 
This brought back memories. I was once ill and told i may die.
I gave away what horses i could over a weekend. I was extremely careful and they went to homes for life through people i had known years. I kept three. My old mare, her son and my daughters first pony which my husband was capable of careing for.
I am glad to say unless i am a ghost i am still here. All but one horse is still happy in the home for life 10 years later. Florin did not work out although it was the best home possible. She came back to me but if i had not survived they did say she would have been pts. As it turns out i had to do it.
My daughters are of an age to carry on.
It is something to think about and we never know when our number is up.
I apeared on the yard one day after convalessing and one poor man nearly fainted. He hid behind his sister. They thought i had died. LOl
 
Mine will be quietly put to sleep.Quietly because I dont want the animal lib and co lot to find out and even more so that I dont want them to fall into Italian hands..big no no for me
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.BUT, I am willing to pay postage to Jm07s yard but seeing as shes had another birthday.........she cant be that much younger than me
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. M.
 
Mine are going to go to my OH, if we both go at the same time, I have in my will that they will be pts. Like Mairi I am terrified of my horse ending up going to the continent or even a bad home.
 
Arrangements have been made and depend on who I am survived by and the age/state of the animals at the time.
 
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