natz
Well-Known Member
Just had a phone call from one of my good friends, her 5 year old mare has just died after emergency colic surgery. Jolene was kept on the eventing yard where I work, and was one of the nicest horses I have worked with in a long time. Fay (my friend) has been through such a lot with this mare, and has certainly had her fair share of bad luck. Some of you may remember me posting a few months ago about one of the girls on the yard getting trampled by one of the horses that was in for breaking . . . well that was fay. She has overcome a huge head injury, and re-gained her confidence around horses so quickly, and now this. Her and Jolene had just started going out to dressage comps. after months of hard work at home, and fair play to both of them, they were doing so blo*dy well.
Jolene was perfectly fine on tuesday night, but we found her down with mild colic yesterday morning, had the vet up to the yard 3 times yesterday, and she seemed to get better. But by 9.30pm last night she was worse again, so decided to take her to Kearns and Rae equine hosp. she arrived at midnight last night.
Seemed better this morn, but then rushed in to surgery this afternoon . . and didnt recover. I really cant believe it, such a sad loss and all happened so quickly.
Jolene was perfectly fine on tuesday night, but we found her down with mild colic yesterday morning, had the vet up to the yard 3 times yesterday, and she seemed to get better. But by 9.30pm last night she was worse again, so decided to take her to Kearns and Rae equine hosp. she arrived at midnight last night.
Seemed better this morn, but then rushed in to surgery this afternoon . . and didnt recover. I really cant believe it, such a sad loss and all happened so quickly.
