myponymolly
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Hello all
Probably souns like a strange question to ask after I have had my horse put to sleep, but I am so devistated I feel I need to know as much about what was happening to her.
She was roughly 26/27 years old 14.3hh quite chunky mixed cob, I have had her for 20 years.
A year ago Molly was diagnosed with Cushings but Im pretty sure she had had it longer, for most of the 20years we had battled to keep her weight down, she could basically live on air alone, and after one minor bout of laminitis had her grazing and diet limited and checked. Then 2-3 years ago she seemed to drop weight and it was tricky to keep weight on her, I put it down to her weight and later to her cushings, but over last winter and this spring seemed to be able to build her up with good diet management and her cushings medication. Then about a month ago she dropped some much weight again and pretty quickly, I hoped that it was due to there being less grass and the weather changing and that adjusting her feed like I had before would help. But it dint seem to be working this time and I even uped her prescend dose a little as her symptoms were starting to return. Then last wednesday morning I went up the yard for the morning feed and although she was her usual perky cheeky mareish self her beautiful thick black tail and rear end was covered in diarrehea. There was no mucus/blood or anything like that present but it was not a pleasant thing to see. I cleaned her up and turned her out hoping it was a blimp but returned an hour later and once again she was covered in the same.
I sat up the field with her for ages crying as I knew it was time, she was still perky didnt seem dehydrated or in pain, she wasnt pouring the ground, rolling or looking destressed, but she knew too I think. The day before I was talking to her in her stable saying what can I do now to help you, your not putting on weight etc then the next morning this happened.
So last Friday they came and put her to sleep, my friend who would not let me be present as he said I was destressed enough said it was dignified, calm and there was no pain.
The people who took her away said that when they opened her up it was enteritis and that it had spread up her spine and that I had made the right decision as they would have had to come for her pretty soon regardless and if I had of left it, it wouldnt have been so calm.
I have looked into enteritis alot the last few days an it always seems to be tied with colic, Molly definatly wasnt in a distressed state an she was quite clearly passing through her intestines and stomuch. The other thing Im confused about is their statement that it had gone up her spine, if so why wasnt she suffering toxic shock.
Any help would be gratefully received as Im pulling my hair out with wondering whether I did something wrong or could have done more without letting her go. I miss my pony so much
xx
Probably souns like a strange question to ask after I have had my horse put to sleep, but I am so devistated I feel I need to know as much about what was happening to her.
She was roughly 26/27 years old 14.3hh quite chunky mixed cob, I have had her for 20 years.
A year ago Molly was diagnosed with Cushings but Im pretty sure she had had it longer, for most of the 20years we had battled to keep her weight down, she could basically live on air alone, and after one minor bout of laminitis had her grazing and diet limited and checked. Then 2-3 years ago she seemed to drop weight and it was tricky to keep weight on her, I put it down to her weight and later to her cushings, but over last winter and this spring seemed to be able to build her up with good diet management and her cushings medication. Then about a month ago she dropped some much weight again and pretty quickly, I hoped that it was due to there being less grass and the weather changing and that adjusting her feed like I had before would help. But it dint seem to be working this time and I even uped her prescend dose a little as her symptoms were starting to return. Then last wednesday morning I went up the yard for the morning feed and although she was her usual perky cheeky mareish self her beautiful thick black tail and rear end was covered in diarrehea. There was no mucus/blood or anything like that present but it was not a pleasant thing to see. I cleaned her up and turned her out hoping it was a blimp but returned an hour later and once again she was covered in the same.
I sat up the field with her for ages crying as I knew it was time, she was still perky didnt seem dehydrated or in pain, she wasnt pouring the ground, rolling or looking destressed, but she knew too I think. The day before I was talking to her in her stable saying what can I do now to help you, your not putting on weight etc then the next morning this happened.
So last Friday they came and put her to sleep, my friend who would not let me be present as he said I was destressed enough said it was dignified, calm and there was no pain.
The people who took her away said that when they opened her up it was enteritis and that it had spread up her spine and that I had made the right decision as they would have had to come for her pretty soon regardless and if I had of left it, it wouldnt have been so calm.
I have looked into enteritis alot the last few days an it always seems to be tied with colic, Molly definatly wasnt in a distressed state an she was quite clearly passing through her intestines and stomuch. The other thing Im confused about is their statement that it had gone up her spine, if so why wasnt she suffering toxic shock.
Any help would be gratefully received as Im pulling my hair out with wondering whether I did something wrong or could have done more without letting her go. I miss my pony so much
xx
