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Serenity087

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Well... after four years... a lot of work... a lot of patience... and a lot of practise runs...

I rode Dorey again :D

Feel a million dollars!! I have my beautiful pony back!!

Four years ago I was so close to shooting her, I gave her a bath so she'd go looking beautiful. Thanks to a now departed HHO user and some friends, she was given a second, third and fourth chance.

life don't get much better than this :)
 
Well I'm glad you didn't as I love seeing pics of her :D What's her story? I haven't read it as I haven't been on here for very long.

Glad all is going well and you are obviously enjoying her now!!!

I've had 3 years of bad luck with my pony, who has only just come sound again after a long time off for various reasons. I pretty much cried when I rode her again after her injuries and she stayed sound after :D
 
Went on loan after a winter off, hear rumours that she's a rearer (which is news to me!). Collected her to find her really uncomfortable to be ridden and very unhappy generally. Had blood tests, brain scans, us scans, the lot. Worked out it was down to a polycystic ovary.

Vet predcicted doom and gloom, so says mother (who often changes what the vet said to suit her!) and put Dor on regumate, which worked wonders!!!

However, we couldn't afford it.

Had more tests and it boiled down to "would putting her in foal have the same affect" and the answer was, eventually, YES!
However, the stud we found couldn't keep her (accident with the stallion) and we ended up looking at the slaughterman option again.

Then a HHOer stepped in, gave her a fabulous home and a beautiful husband. Dissapointingly, Dorey didn't take, so she moved onto her third stud, where she was scanned and tested and found to not have anything in her way...
First time lucky, she got up the duff.

So, one foal later and there's no follicle, no problem, and now no pain.

Been a long hard slog, been heartbreaking (to think her loanee was slagging her off to anyone who'd listen when she was actually in pain and had a medical condition... isn't the world such a lovely place at times!) and I've shed a lot of tears along the way!

But onwards and upwards now, one mended horse. Hopefully this means she can either spend her life with me or move on to teaching another little girl how to ride :)
 
Oh wow! What a story! Great news that you managed to get it sorted and she is still here today, I bet it was worth all that money though :D

Did you keep her foal or? She's a very unusually marked pretty mare, you're very lucky :)
 
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