The saddest day. Sleep tight Tiny T

poiuytrewq said:
I’ve just had my favourite little pony pts
Torro aka Tiny T I adored this little chap.

We got him about 10 years ago from the Blue Cross, I wanted a companion for our little Shetland x. We looked at a few, how do you choose a pony! So I said I’d take which ever would be the hardest to home.
That was Torro. He was already old, had cushings and was nervous/ difficult to catch.
So home he came.
He didn’t make a companion really for the other pony as he was vile to him 😬 he was a great companion to my big old horse though. They shared a stable and were always side by side. Now the ponies were friends but it took years! He’d pull faces and stamp his front legs at them!
I don’t know his history but don’t think he was ever ridden (poor child if he was) there was just something about him I loved.

The past few weeks have been really odd. I thought early laminitis at first but knew it wasn’t.
Then I started noticing things like weird ways of standing. He’d stand with his back up or hind legs crossed. Weird foot placement walking, couldn’t back up easily.
He became nervous of me and the other horses- except Bubbles who is kind to everyone.
When I go to touch him he’d lean back and just lots of weird little not quite right things.
So the vet came today and thinks it was neurological. She said there was nothing that could be done really, w could have started xraying and maybe steroids but he’s well in his 30’s and laminitic so steroids probably wouldn’t have worked. He also suffered allergies. We decided it was kinder to call it a day.
I’m quite shocked how sad I am to have said goodbye to this precious little face.
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So very sorry for your loss. Rest easy little one - you were very loved ❤️
 
So sorry P. How lovely that you took on a pony that nobody else would want, and let him live out his days with your gang.

He wanted for nothing in his old age.

x
 
His markings gives him such a striking look! 💓💕💓
I think it maybe is something not meant to be explained, sometimes we're just lucky, and get to experience that extra little bit of special love to/with one of our pets. The downside is that when they die, it makes the emptiness cut even deeper, feel even more empty.
I'm so sorry that you weren't able to give him one last goodbye hug/kiss when he was still alive. Sometimes life sucks more than usual, and makes something already difficult feel even worse. But at least you had developed the trust so that you were able to give him hugs, and kisses, before whatever presumably neurological problem began to affect him.

How lucky he was, that you came along, and didn't only dare, but was also capable of giving a pony that was hard to rehome a good new home.
R.I.P. Tiny T/Torro.
{{{{{{Hugs}}}}}}
 
poiuytrewq said:
I’ve just had my favourite little pony pts
Torro aka Tiny T I adored this little chap.

We got him about 10 years ago from the Blue Cross, I wanted a companion for our little Shetland x. We looked at a few, how do you choose a pony! So I said I’d take which ever would be the hardest to home.
That was Torro. He was already old, had cushings and was nervous/ difficult to catch.
So home he came.
He didn’t make a companion really for the other pony as he was vile to him 😬 he was a great companion to my big old horse though. They shared a stable and were always side by side. Now the ponies were friends but it took years! He’d pull faces and stamp his front legs at them!
I don’t know his history but don’t think he was ever ridden (poor child if he was) there was just something about him I loved.

The past few weeks have been really odd. I thought early laminitis at first but knew it wasn’t.
Then I started noticing things like weird ways of standing. He’d stand with his back up or hind legs crossed. Weird foot placement walking, couldn’t back up easily.
He became nervous of me and the other horses- except Bubbles who is kind to everyone.
When I go to touch him he’d lean back and just lots of weird little not quite right things.
So the vet came today and thinks it was neurological. She said there was nothing that could be done really, w could have started xraying and maybe steroids but he’s well in his 30’s and laminitic so steroids probably wouldn’t have worked. He also suffered allergies. We decided it was kinder to call it a day.
I’m quite shocked how sad I am to have said goodbye to this precious little face.
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So sorry to hear this PT. It is always hard to say goodbye. Sleep tight little one, be kind to yourself PT XX
 
I'm so sorry. He was a lucky chap to have you take him on and well done for keeping a complicated pony safe, happy and well for so long.
 
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