Auslander
Well-Known Member
My little herd lost a member yesterday :-(
Our little orange girl, who was 25, arthritic as hell, but still more than capable of causing havoc, had her last mad cavort round the field on Thursday. She was lame on Thursday evening, looking like she may be brewing an abscess, so we arranged for the farrier to come and have a dig around yesterday. Yesterday morning, it was obvious that there was more to it than an abscess. One of her already funky looking knees was looking even more funky, so we called the vet out, and he diagnosed a fracture of one of the bones in her knee.
She wasn't one for being stabled, and the prospect of lengthy box rest for a old retired horse who would have hated every minute of it wasn't a pleasant one, so the dear girl was PTS. Her owner was with her, and Alf stood next to her while she went, very peacefully, with a mouthful of grass.
All is very quiet and sad at the Senile Delinquents Home at the moment. Going to miss the old girl - chief escapee/fence trasher/mud monkey/mad old bag and all round menace. She was a character all right! RIP T...
Our little orange girl, who was 25, arthritic as hell, but still more than capable of causing havoc, had her last mad cavort round the field on Thursday. She was lame on Thursday evening, looking like she may be brewing an abscess, so we arranged for the farrier to come and have a dig around yesterday. Yesterday morning, it was obvious that there was more to it than an abscess. One of her already funky looking knees was looking even more funky, so we called the vet out, and he diagnosed a fracture of one of the bones in her knee.
She wasn't one for being stabled, and the prospect of lengthy box rest for a old retired horse who would have hated every minute of it wasn't a pleasant one, so the dear girl was PTS. Her owner was with her, and Alf stood next to her while she went, very peacefully, with a mouthful of grass.
All is very quiet and sad at the Senile Delinquents Home at the moment. Going to miss the old girl - chief escapee/fence trasher/mud monkey/mad old bag and all round menace. She was a character all right! RIP T...