I've just killed a pony

You didnt kill your pony your pony sounds like it had an injury or accident ie perhaps underlying cause or got hurt without you clearly realising. You cant watch them 24hours a day, I know people who have found their horses dead in the field before with no obvious reason. But its an awful shock and I cant imagine that at all. How sad for you all. But as has been said sincere condolencesX. Anyone that posts ie lessons learnt that is just tactless and insensitive.How many of us have gone indoors to make a cup of tea etc What must it be like to be so perfect a thoughtless empty comment, so just ignore, there is always an abruptness. But am sorry for you all.
 
amymay said:
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It is the hardest lesson for any of us to learn when our actions have most likely caused or contributed to an injury, or worse, of our horse or pony.

I am truly sorry op that you lost your pony through such a tragic accident. And hope those of you who dismiss what happened as a mere accident can perhaps take something from the situation (as I was forced too many yeasrs ago).
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How callous :(

OP, please keep strong x
 
amymay said:
I have. I've not ended up having to have something destroyed because of it though.
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Well arn't you the lucky one :rolleyes:

Sorry to hear this OP

Accidents do happen. You did the right thing making sure he was safe when you left him. No one knows what happened after that

Hey you could tie your horse up outside stable door and he could pull back and hurt himself breaking free.:(
 
JFTD said:
Unfortunate accident, OP, these things happen. Sadly...


Fwiw, I didn't read amymay's post as quick so vile as you all seem to be - I interpreted it as a "lesson learnt, these things happen" type observation. But I could be wrong. Either way, using the thread as an excuse to throw insults at her is pretty low, in my opinion.
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Same here. Very sorry OP :(
 
Jesus, amymay, ever wondered about rock and a hard place.

No matter what you say you will be nailed to the cross. You said you were truly sorry and give an example that you had, yet, your a total biatch!

For what it's worth, OP, I am truly sorry for your loss.

Amymay, I did not read your original comment as badly as others.
 
amymay said:
It's always been drummed in to me, and those I know, that you never leave a horse that is tied up unattended - because as many of you rightly point out accidents do happen.

It is the hardest lesson for any of us to learn when our actions have most likely caused or contributed to an injury, or worse, of our horse or pony. And we can learn everyday through our own mistakes, and those of others.

I am truly sorry op that you lost your pony through such a tragic accident. And hope those of you who dismiss what happened as a mere accident can perhaps take something from the situation (as I was forced too many yeasrs ago). Considering, as we all can, how to minimise the risks of those awful accidents happening.
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Well amymay you have really hit the lowest of the lower even by your standards.


We have to leave horses unattended some times its why you tie them up.

Getting your tack out of tack room
getting your horsebox out
opening gate for vet
going to sign in at a show.

Must be wonderful to live in your world amymay. Me I will stick to reality.;)
many other reasons
 
Sympathies to you, how very sad. RIP little pony.

You don't know what happened do you? You don't know if this happened because he was left tied up, or if he just moved sharply and there was a weakness. So try not to beat yourself up. A horse can suffer a fatal accident in a split second, even if it's tied up short and there are people around, I've seen it happen worst luck. You can't blame yourself if you don't know what happened because you don't know if you were to blame. And nobody can try to "draw lessons" from something when they don't know what happened either.



The first comment from AM was insensitive. The subsequent posts to try to justify herself on a thread where Op is obviously already blaming herself are unforgivable to me. I just can't get my head round why anyone would do that. I don't know about others, but I sometimes read a thread and have a strong reaction, but then I think most would stop and think before attacking the keyboard - because there's a real person reading the results. In this case someone who's already cried buckets. Second poster I'm putting on ignore in a week. Among the many decent people here it's no loss.
 
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I can't quote because I'm on my phone but I just wanted to say to Justabob that I don't know how I would have gotten through the night after I lost my boy suddenly without the support on here. And I mean that truely and honestly. It was my darkest hour and the kindness of strangers helped me through.
I was remember that when I see these posts :(
 
What a horrible experience for you, I am so sorry. Accidents happen - we are none of us perfect and most of us probably get away with all sorts of things that aren't in the BHS manual. You and the pony were just very unlucky this time - but thank goodness you were able to ensure he did not suffer.
 
amymay said:
It's always been drummed in to me, and those I know, that you never leave a horse that is tied up unattended - because as many of you rightly point out accidents do happen.

It is the hardest lesson for any of us to learn when our actions have most likely caused or contributed to an injury, or worse, of our horse or pony. And we can learn everyday through our own mistakes, and those of others.

I am truly sorry op that you lost your pony through such a tragic accident. And hope those of you who dismiss what happened as a mere accident can perhaps take something from the situation (as I was forced too many years ago). Considering, as we all can, how to minimise the risks of those awful accidents happening.
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You are absolutely right amymay - we have ALL made mistakes and by the grace of god, none of the ones I have made have ever seriously hurt the horse, myself or anyone else around me but accidents do happen. OP, I am really sorry you have learnt a very hard lesson but it was an accident so please do not punish yourself any more than you probably are already.

Amymay - I am sure you did not mean to sound spiteful but unfortunately you did. Perhaps you too could learn a lesson from your far-too-short posts that you so often favour? If you had taken the time and effort to put some more words down, perhaps you might not have been so misconstrued?
 
It is a tragic accident, and I am very sorry for the op, but I also agree with Amymay in that there are nearly always lessons to be learned from such incidents, as harsh as it is and I don't mean to villify the op, but I bet she won't tie to a solid post with a long rope in a hurry again, regardless of whether it caused the injury or not.

Sadly we had to change the way we turned our horses out where I worked after a tragic acident. They'd been allowed to effectively turn themselves out individually down a gated lane from the yard to the field and the horses would canter down through the open gates, until the day one spooked and ran into the fencing in the field, dislocating a fetlock which then severed the tendons etc when he got to his feet leaving his hoof and pastern hanging off. I never turn out without turning to face the gate and making them stand now.

So while I have every sympathy for the op, and it certainly isn't her fault as it could have happened anyway, it is true to say that you do learn something everytime something like this happens, and that is a good thing, because it prevents siimilar things happening in the future.
 
amymay said:
It's always been drummed in to me, and those I know, that you never leave a horse that is tied up unattended - because as many of you rightly point out accidents do happen.

It is the hardest lesson for any of us to learn when our actions have most likely caused or contributed to an injury, or worse, of our horse or pony. And we can learn everyday through our own mistakes, and those of others.

I am truly sorry op that you lost your pony through such a tragic accident. And hope those of you who dismiss what happened as a mere accident can perhaps take something from the situation (as I was forced too many yeasrs ago). Considering, as we all can, how to minimise the risks of those awful accidents happening.
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This is fair, earlier posts were out of order.

A few months ago I was trialling a very expensive saddle. At the end of a farm ride my horse was fizzy in the car park and I was trying to figure out how to get the saddle off the horse and out of harms way without leaving the horse. In the time it took me to rush five yards or so to put the saddle down on a fence - rather than the time it would take to go into and out of the lorry - my horse had spun into his lorry steps and was pissing blood everywhere doing one down the car park. He was very, very lucky not to break his hock or slice into the joint.

AFAIC, from this I have learnt, never tie horse within reach of lorry steps, never tie horse when agitated at all or he'll just snap string, if a choice between looking after horse or saddle go for the horse - even if technically its worth less, do everything possible on the lorry and ask for help before a potential accident happens don't try to manage on your own or you'll be much more of a PITA to other people when your horse is running around bleeding everywhere.

Also, which I learnt ages ago, that hindsight is a wonderful thing and sometimes you can't do right for doing wrong. We all do our best and take our chances, and sometimes we're lucky and get away with stupid mistakes and sometimes we think things to death, try our damnedest to get it right and sh!!t happens anyway.

Don't feel bad OP, you haven't got a crystal ball.
 
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I leave mine tied up unattended quite frequently (albeit on a piece of bailer twine so if he pulls back he'll get free). No accidents thus far, but he cut his leg quite badly on his own in the field. People can be the same, a friend of mine had a compound fracture of the ankle resulting in 17 hours surgery because she missed the last step on the stairs.

Put simply this could have happened anywhere, any time, for any reason. The tethering may well have nothing to do with it and it doesn't sound like it did to me. OP this was a dreadful accident, I'm very sorry you had to go through it, and I'm sorry for your loss.
 
I read AmyMays comments differently.
I've already stated how Im sorry for the Op, its awful and not her fault.
However AmyMays point is that we all do things we shouldn't really. Who folds all their rugs instead of throwing them on? Who puts knee boots on before road riding? These give scope for an accident too. Reading the Ops first post made of cold as i had left my mare tied to eat her tea yesterday. Today i won't. Isn't that a lesson learnt?
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. OP I hope reading this thread for the support and not the bickering helps.
 
Sorry for your loss. Totally agree with others, accidents can happen anywhere at any time. I myself have had a few near misses, thankfully none have had disastrous consequences.

A few years ago on here I read of a tragic accident. If I remember rightly, a horse was tied up on the yard while poster did her jobs. Horse wasn't unattended, but something spooked it, and as it pulled away, the string it was tied to didnt break, but the post the string was attached to did. Horse panicked and took off with lump of wood still attached, and ended up catching the wood on something and breaking its neck. Totally unforeseen accident, and who could have foreseen it?

Don't beat yourself up. You reacted immediately, and pony didnt suffer an excessive amount of time. Rip pony, and I hope you are ok OP.
 
TheresaW said:
A few years ago on here I read of a tragic accident. If I remember rightly, a horse was tied up on the yard while poster did her jobs. Horse wasn't unattended, but something spooked it, and as it pulled away, the string it was tied to didnt break, but the post the string was attached to did. Horse panicked and took off with lump of wood still attached, and ended up catching the wood on something and breaking its neck. Totally unforeseen accident, and who could have foreseen it?
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I remember that. The OP got a hard time of one member and has not posted much since which is a shame as she used to contribute well to the forum.

So sorry for you loss OP, it sounds like a tragic accident.
 
Cant we just leave AM and her comments out of it today, its not helpful for the op to the keep raking it over and seeing them again, lets support the op as best we can through this awful accident and not make the other one the centre of it all.
 
I second Marydoll. There's a lady waking up this morning with a very heavy heart, lets use this thread to support her and offer kind words, not to kick her whilst she's down and score points against other forum members. truce!! Xxxxx
 
Clodagh said:
I try to ignore your posts but you really can be such a cow!
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Sorry Clodagh but you shouldn't call her a cow. No cow would be so vile, however I understand your usage of the word. We would be struck off for using the words we would like to.

This was an accident pure and simple. Hugs to you OP
 
I hope that today you can see this for what it is ... a horse lover who reacted in a quick and efficient way to stop her pony from suffering following a tragic accident.

Personally, I am impressed with how you handled such a horrific incident. You ignore the nasty comments made by some on here and take heart that you probably dealt with it so much better than they would have ....
 
I read the original post from Amymay quite differently. Simply more focused on the tragedy of the pony than the (understandable) sorrow of the OP. A reaction completely encouraged by the Thread title.

Perhaps some good will come from it .....

RIP pony.
 
Oh OP, i'm so sorry,
Accidents happen and this was just an unfortunate accident, You couldn't have foreseen it or prevented it. At least you were there to have pony pts quickly and with little, if no stress to the pony, I can't begin to understand how devastated you are but just think, i'm sure you'd rather have being there and it happen than it happen in the field and pony be stood with a broken hock for hours? Try not to be so hard on yourself. RIP Pony xxx
 
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