Frankie is being PTS tomorrow

Been following your journey, so sorry for you, but you are making the right decision for both of you. It won't feel like it for a while, but the pain does ease eventually.
Don't rush to decide on the new horse, get someone else to look after it until you are ready. For me 2weeks after I had my horse pts I felt I needed another, but going & trying horses was too much. You can always sell if it doesn't work out, but t may be just the therapy you need. Look after yourself.
 
What a horrid situation, so sad for you, but he will be free from pain. I realise it will be tough but in some ways maybe the new horse will be a distraction, in a good way, perhaps not what you had planned but sometimes these things happen for a reason...
 
The right decisions are often the toughest.
It's never easy but something the responsible horse owner has to go through sooner or later.
My thoughts with you.
 
So sorry to hear this :( not much I can say that hasn't already been said - you're definitely doing the right thing by him though, the last kindness you can give your faithful friend. Big hug x
 
Blooody awful ,but you can't get the result you want with all of them .
It is the right thing to do.
On the new boy just look at looking after him working him as a job the rest will will come with time .
 
I am so sorry I have been following your other thread and commented where I thought I could help, I have been in your situation it's not nice and I can honestly say it was one of the most stressful things I have gone through, I really think your making the right decision it's bloody hard though but you did all you could for him and I will be thinking of you today X

I also had a very new horse when Grace was pts I really had no time for him once she had gone and I struggled with him for a while but I wouldn't be without him now so give yourself both some time and I am sure you will feel differently.
 
Very sorry to read this but it sounds like it is definitely the kindest thing to do for him, although undoubtedly the hardest for you. Thinking of you
 
I'm so awfully sorry.

Take some comfort that you have made the kindest decision for Frankie and done everything you could.

I had to make the horrible decision to put my boy to sleep when he suddenly became ill. It was awful being the one to 'agree' to his death, but as much as I wanted him to never leave me, I knew it wasn't fair to put him through the pain of surgery.

Thinking of you, and sending hugs. The new one will absolutely fine until you are ready to make a decision, so give yourself as long as you need x
 
So sorry to read about this, you are being very brave and caring. give yourself some time with the new boy, as someone said - look after him as a 'job' and the rest will come later. Thinking of you today x
 
I am so, so sorry. Laminitis is a cruel illness. It's very nature leaves us prone to doubting every decision we make. It doesn't just hit the fat ponies whose weight has been neglected. I remember shortly after losing my mare, having religiously monitored her weight and kept her lean for more than two years, coming across a livery's other retired 25 year old horse in a 20 acre field. He was 16.2 and easily the fattest horse I had seen in my life, but had never had even a hint of laminitis. I felt so cheated and angry as the loss of my mare was still so raw. On the other hand, a slender 8 year old warmblood, in full work here got laminitis if he even ate a blade of grass. Laminitis hits the best managed horses almost as often as the neglected ones IME. You did your absolute best for Frankie and have made the bravest decision for him now.
 
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So sorry, thinking of you today.

Don't be hard on yourself with regards to your feelings for the new horse. Give yourself time xx
 
So sorry to hear this - you've been a fantastic owner to him and given him every chance and more. It is just the way that sometimes we can't mend them and then we are entrusted with making the right decision. You are/have made the right decision and we will be all thinking of you today.

A couple of years ago, I had the most wonderful old hunter who it was agreed would be PTS at the end of the hunting season as he was essentially knackered. As it turned out, the new horse arrived the day before I had the other one PTS and, as a result, could barely look at the new one for weeks because she wasn't the old one. A friend on here told me that I had to stop thinking like that and give the new one a chance. She was totally different and what had happened to the old one was no fault of hers. It took a while but we got over it and she proved herself to me. Don't be too quick with your decision - there is no rush.
 
So sorry you are losing your boy. Try not to make a quick decision on the new one though you never know he might be what you need to help you through this.
 
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