What will you do with your horse when........

I had my boys mummy individually cremated as I had her 21 years and would do the same with Wills although the way things are going with him the box would fall apart and fall on my feet or I'd forget where it was and stub my toe on it, it would seem strange to go through a whole year without a huge vets bill, what is that like????
Joking apart I pray its a very very long time away!
 
Sounds wierd, but i quite like the idea someone said of them going to the hounds and they can be with the hunt whereever they go. Im not sure what happened to Echo
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I had Jake cremated then scattered his ashes his field on the mound where he liked to stand. I thought I would want to keep his ashes with my dogs ashes but then I thought he would rather be in his field!
 
I will bury mine. I know in some cases you aren't meant to bury horses, like obviously horses PTS by injection - in case it gets into water supplies etc. however as we live in the middle of nowhere and its only our water supply to worry about (spring) then I dont feel it would effect anyone else.

I doubt I could face sending the body off for research. I guess I might depending on what the horse died of, if it was a rare disease or something and thus would research would be of great benefit to save other lives then I probably would.

Cremation-wise, I don't think anywhere near me does such a thing. I would never ever send a body off to the Knackers Yard and certainly never a hunt kennel.
 
Its a tricky one - I was always against sending a horse to the hunt kennels, having spent a lot of time at one and seeing a beautiful little piebald shetland hacked to bits in front of me. But when our little pony went downhill v quickly, we couldnt afford to have her cremated, didnt have anywhere to bury her, and so the kennels was the realistic option. I will never forget how her little ears pricked as she smelt the hounds; the huntsman came to lead her away, and she toddled off alongside him quite happily - you'd never have known she was 37! We heard a shot, and knew instantly that she was gone. In that instant, it didnt seem to matter what happened to her body; we knew she had died quickly, in an environment she had spent many happy years in. That day changed me forever; I would not object to any horse going to the kennels if it can all be as swift and humane as that.
Mickey was buried, but his death was altogether different. When Ellie goes, I think I would have her cremated; I wouldnt send her to the kennels by choice as she has no real link with the hunt. That said, if it was the only option available, I wouldnt object.
 
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