Having to have your beloved horse pts...what do you do

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Harriephebs

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Hi all,
Since i have joined HHO ive noticed that a lot of people have been going through what i went through a year ago with our pony Irrie. He was a very fit and healthy 13 year old who died of colic but the vets thought it was grass sickness. It broke our hearts but everyone has to find away to get over things like this. I was just wondering how people do this? I am just about to have to make the same decision again.
To help us with losing irrie we made a photo book and turned it into a slideshow...see below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLyeGp0qyUo
 
it is a very hard decision to make in our lives...i am stll struggling to come to terms with my recent loss....and now there is a new horse in his stable....life has to go on but to me it's a wrench to my heart!
I wanted to make a little video of my lad on youtube but have no idea what to do!

I'm very sorry to hear of your heartbraking news again.
thoughts are with you on this one!!
 
Hun - have a look at the Hoofbeats-in-Heaven website. People who have lost a much loved horse can light a virtual candle for their ned and post a memorial or poem or whatever you want. Thinking of you hun x
 
It has been just over a year since i lost my girl star R.I.P and i could still cry every day. I had a necklace made out of her tail hair i have had a tatoo of her i have had her creamated and she is in my living room so i talk to her every day and i have photos every where.!
 
I have lost two of mine in the last few years, and it is truly hearbreaking.

For me, hanging on to the good memories, and time easing the pain was the way forward for me.

My thoughts are with you.xx
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Oh dear, what a day I’m having with some of these posts, I’m an emotional wreck thinking of the events of many years ago, these things never leave me.

I had a pony but wanted to move up into horses, no way could we afford to keep him, selling him was the only very sad option. Pony did everything for me and we were quite well known around the area. As soon as the word went out he was for sale he was sold to someone I knew well and was going to keep him at the same yard, so not so bad in that respect.
They were having problems with him in that he didn’t want to do anything for the girl and I’d get on and he’d be fine. They then had the vet and he said he was virtually blind and that his performance was down to his trust in me, so somehow, I can’t remember how because by then we’d already bought a horse, we refunded their money and took him back.
His eye sight gradually became worse and we knew the end was near, but what happened still haunts me to this day. Without me knowing my mum arranged for him to be taken away and PTS, I never got to say goodbye.
She did it to spare me the heart ache but although I tell her it was ok, it wasn’t my little boy died going into a trailer which he hated doing and into the hands of complete strangers.

RIP Aztec, my faithful friend, I will love you forever.

Edit to say, sorry Harriephebs got completely engrossed in myself then, my thoughts are with you. (((HUGS)))
 
Poor, poor you. It is such a horrid thing. I had to make the horrid decision 10 years ago but it seems like only yesterday.
I "bought" a "Tree In Tribute" at the World Horse Welfare.
It is a couple of hours journey away but I often go and "visit" my tree. There is a plaque on it and I sit by it and relive the fantastic times I had with "Jack" (Bustino Bay).
I felt that was a good thing to do because I felt Jack and I were helping other horses and I have something "concrete " to visit. There is also a Tribute book so I can always look at my tribute.
 
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