howengold
Well-Known Member
Sovereign Pretty Lady 1973 - 2010
You were taken from us so suddenly, we never got a chance to spoil you the way we had planned for you last days on this earth. We never got to let my family all say goodbye and spend the last few hours in peace. We never expected you to go without us having to say it was time and to plan you day properly.
Last night at 4pm I got the call I never expected. I knew you were old but you have been so active and healthy we just never imagined you wouldn't spend another year with us. You were found by your old owners, struggling to stand, collapsing and looking so tired. You had been so well and funny just two hours before, you reminded me of a unicorn with those flippin things stuck in your forelock again. I never got chance to pull them out because my hands were numb through the cold. I was going to do it this morning, I never knew you wouldn't be awake anymore.
Karl was so ill with his chest but he ran up there with me, Mark was trying to get you up and help you, I hate to think that you might have died alone in the cold night if he hadn't gone up to do their ponies. Mark left you so he could pick us up off the main road and when we got to the yard I was heartbroken. You couldn't get up and your breathing was so shallow. The vet got there not long after us but it felt like hours. She did all she could but the horrendous weather and your age were against us. I know I did the right thing but it doesn't make it any easier. I knew you were tired and needed to leave us but I wished we could have had another day together, to say goodbye properly without the snow and in the way we always planned.
This morning I hoped to find you standing by the gate but you were still under the rugs we had to cover you in. I am sorry I never came over straight away but I was so scared and sad. I had to let the others out but then I could see you. I groomed you and took those things out of your forelock. You looked so peaceful and your coat gleamed in the sun. I was so sad to loose you but now I know nothing can take you from my heart and mind.
When they took you I was with your best friend, we stood in silence till Sally let me know you had been taken.
There is now a Sovereign shaped hole in the snow where you last lay and a bit of blood on the grass, thats all there is to say you were there. I will miss you already and I feel my heart has been ripped out but I need you to know you will always be with me in my heart, even when the snow has left and the final signs are gone, you are always here with me xxx
You were taken from us so suddenly, we never got a chance to spoil you the way we had planned for you last days on this earth. We never got to let my family all say goodbye and spend the last few hours in peace. We never expected you to go without us having to say it was time and to plan you day properly.
Last night at 4pm I got the call I never expected. I knew you were old but you have been so active and healthy we just never imagined you wouldn't spend another year with us. You were found by your old owners, struggling to stand, collapsing and looking so tired. You had been so well and funny just two hours before, you reminded me of a unicorn with those flippin things stuck in your forelock again. I never got chance to pull them out because my hands were numb through the cold. I was going to do it this morning, I never knew you wouldn't be awake anymore.
Karl was so ill with his chest but he ran up there with me, Mark was trying to get you up and help you, I hate to think that you might have died alone in the cold night if he hadn't gone up to do their ponies. Mark left you so he could pick us up off the main road and when we got to the yard I was heartbroken. You couldn't get up and your breathing was so shallow. The vet got there not long after us but it felt like hours. She did all she could but the horrendous weather and your age were against us. I know I did the right thing but it doesn't make it any easier. I knew you were tired and needed to leave us but I wished we could have had another day together, to say goodbye properly without the snow and in the way we always planned.
This morning I hoped to find you standing by the gate but you were still under the rugs we had to cover you in. I am sorry I never came over straight away but I was so scared and sad. I had to let the others out but then I could see you. I groomed you and took those things out of your forelock. You looked so peaceful and your coat gleamed in the sun. I was so sad to loose you but now I know nothing can take you from my heart and mind.
When they took you I was with your best friend, we stood in silence till Sally let me know you had been taken.
There is now a Sovereign shaped hole in the snow where you last lay and a bit of blood on the grass, thats all there is to say you were there. I will miss you already and I feel my heart has been ripped out but I need you to know you will always be with me in my heart, even when the snow has left and the final signs are gone, you are always here with me xxx
