poor old horsey

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hackedoff

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I posted last year about my lovley old boy having a fall when chasing mares in the field. He went from a 21 year old horse who passed for half that age to well...stuck in a stable for 6 month after rupturing sdft on one leg and straining tother one.his tendons have heeled and he was v sound in autumn. Overwinter thoguh his fetlock on worst leg has kind of pulled forward out of line and is hot and swollen on and of. I fear Arthritis,

I don't know what to do going forward.I really love him, been away from home family and small son for work for two days. First person I went to see on way back today was horsey. But I can't see him getting better, thoughts are give him a good summer and pts before next winter as he will be stuck in and cold and miserable. Feel a bit desperate really.
 
I've decided I'm not going to put my old girl through another winter. She struggled through the mud every day because her arthritic knees made it hard going, had to stay in when it froze solid because she was in danger of either falling over or getting a leg stuck down a frozen hoof hole and breaking something - and it wasn't even a particularly bad winter. It doesn't take a genius to see that her hindquarters/lower back aren't comfortable. She is quite chirpy and cheerful in herself but I have arthritis and I know how much it aches at times. Hopefully she will have a lovely sunny summer and I won't have to worry about her during Bonfire "month" any more. I can't imagine my life without her but I'd rather she went with dignity than falling down and not being able to get herself up out of the wet. She spends much of her day dozing in the field so going to sleep on the grand scale isn't much of a change for her in reality. Unfortunately the price we pay for love is a broken heart :(
 
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