The heart-wrenching, nauseous feeling..

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when you think your horse has died..:eek:

But then realize..

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He's just havin' a snooze! (and rather ungracefully at that) :D

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I know that feeling! And normally they wake up but sometimes you're walking across the field shouting and thinking do I have the emergency vets number?!!
 
I can not express how worried I was! What made it worse was that this is only the second time I have seen him lie down in a year and a half, and all the other horses had come galloping past him and he stayed down..bloody dozey animal frightened the life out of me!
 
haha I don't mind when its the baby boy, coz hes lazy! but when my colic prone mare is down I'm on the phone to the vet before even get to check her!

they like to scare us thats for sure!
 
Ha ha I had a similar fright today when dean didn't come when I called - then I noticed his leg was at a weird angle and thought his leg was broken.
Funny angle turned out to be a shadow and I was just not interesting enough to tempt him into movement!
 
:D:D

I remember being on a hack once and staring at a neighbours horse flat out in the field once. was thinking how I was going to beak the news to her that her horse was dead.. after a few minutes a oiled wagtail landed in its back and he twitched his ears..I was so relieved!!!
 
My old cob loved this trick. I cant count the amount of calls I got from concerned neighbours when he was in a small paddock down the road. Some used to climb over the gate and walk up to him and he wouldnt twitch, Sometimes they had to nudge him and he would open an eye. Silly old ****** that I still miss.
 
I know that awful feeling too well. I arrived at the field the other day to find my horse like this, he even had a magpie sitting on him!!! He got a good telling off for frightening me so badly!
 
It was a horrible moment! I was saying "Oh my God, I can't look, I don't wan't to know!".

Bloomin horse - next time I will not let him snooze in peace and reprimand him for making me worry :D
 
It's one of those moments most of us have experienced at some point. Probably all that grass he's on hha. What a fab set of photos!
 
My first thought was wow look at the grass! Mine would be flat out in all that too. So scary though, I admit to once tearing across the field shouting at my o/h to call a vet as I wiped tears from my cheeks :-/ horse actually waited til I was beside him on my knees before moving!
 
Wow,if all his field mates galloped past & he stayed as in repose as that,he must have been having the best,deepest,dreaming-of-carrots sleep ever! :)
 
One of mine does that in her stable, flat out fast asleep but eye wide open. The amount of times people have gone in to check on her and called me to say she's done it is unreal! She refuses to move until you really make her though! :o
 
I have a youngster who "groans" when he is lying down sometimes. Nothing wrong with him, just think it's his version of snoring, but I have had a few concerned phonecalls from other people on the yard, you can even pick his front leg up when he's flat out and get no response...
 
A concerned holiday maker passing our house decided one of the horses was dead. I came up just as the local farmer, whom she had flagged down, was telling her cheerfully "You can always tell, Madam. If they've been dead long they'll look like a kitchen table on its side!" She looked thoroughly shaken..................
 
LOL!
I remember going out to catch a bunch of ponies for the riding school. There was a thick but low mist at the top of the field, rather like something on stage.

I caught the ponies and realised that my cousins pony was missing. Then I saw him lying at the top of a bank where the ground had been cut out to a gate
I looked at him and immediately thought "What am I going to tell the child?"

There was no movement. his legs looked as if they were stiffening up.
I put a foot on him to see how stiff he was.
I do not know who jumped the most - him or me! I fell down the bank, he jumed up and took off down the field.
I always felt I nearly killed him by giving him a heart attack.
 
Rose Folly said:
A concerned holiday maker passing our house decided one of the horses was dead. I came up just as the local farmer, whom she had flagged down, was telling her cheerfully "You can always tell, Madam. If they've been dead long they'll look like a kitchen table on its side!" She looked thoroughly shaken..................
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This made me really chuckle :-)
 
I have only ever had this feeling once, with my TB mare - I have never run so fast across a muddy field in heels so fast in my life!

Gorgeous photos :)
 
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