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

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it comes to the end of its days???

I was reading in the picture lounge about all the people at uni having to disect legs and heads etc of horses so it made me think, i couldnt let that happen to my boy. I know obviously they wont know anything about it but i want him cremated (sp?) and put on my mantle piece.
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What do you all think?
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Murphy's in our living room. His ashes will be scattered with me when i die. The same will go for all of our others. Although if i had my own land, i'd probably bury them...secretly!
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i will get mine cremated i think... however perfectly happy to let my own body parts go off for reserach/ donation etc maybe ive got my priorities wrong lol
 
Mine all go to the hounds so that in a round about way they go on hunting which is what they love.

If I had the cremated remains of all my horses that I have had over the last 40 years my mantle shelf would fall down!

Remember that cadaver specimins HELP living horses. They help train farriers, vets and therapists.
 
One of my horses went for MRI and I was expecting bad news, so I had already planned to let the veterinary hospital take her legs for dissection to further research into her particular lameness. I wanted the rest though to be cremated individually and I was going to scatter her ashes over the land where she lived and was ridden.

I had planned it all in great detail, so please don't tell her, as she is now totally sound and enjoying her new lease of life and hopefully at least another 10 years!
 
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Have always done that in the UK too.
Here? ummm, big hole in a clearing in the forest I think. Not absolutely sure on the rulings in Ontario but no-one would know any differently and there aren't any hunt kennels nearby.
 
i couldnt do the research thing or the dogs so sid (even tho he is not mine) would be crmated and spread over the field or i would like him buried with me but dont think owner would be v impressed!
 
i will ask them if any of mine would be useful to the vet uni, if not they will either go to Potters, ..or if poorly shot at home and taken away.
 
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You have been reading too many of Shilasdair's posts
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LOL your right my suggestion does have a Shilasdair ring to it, but if she wasn't so big, think she would look great (am planning to get a rocking horse painted with her markings anyway).............perhaps just a rug then.
 
I've had to have one PTS and she had to be cremated as she was full of bute, ABs and sedatives. What ultimately happens to the body depends on the circumstances at the time. They can't go to the Hunt kennels if they're on drugs/medication. Sadly, I couldn't afford to have her ashes back
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It's a very personal choice as to what you do with animals who die.

My horses bodies are generally sent off to the knackers yard however last year the old one who died had to be buried on our farm because of a Bank Holiday weekend and I couldn't get the deadstock people out - couldn't leave her body out incase of wolves or bears, so she was buried down in our bottom woods.
 
At a stables we used to use it was time for one of the other owners to make the dreaded decision for her aged and very arthritic horse. Obviously she was very upset, however her partner did manage to make her laugh by asking her, in all seriousness, whether she wanted him stuffed.

Where would you keep a 16.2hh stuffed horse?!! How much would it cost?! (for the taxidermist)

She declined, and he was cremated.
 
I sadly had to face this situation 3 years ago. I couldn't have contemplated sending my horse to the hunt, so he was cremated. I didn't get any of his ashes or anything - would have a house full of caskets if I did this for each one!!! The crematorium people (Peaceful Pets nr Kings Lynn - soz for advertising!!) were fantastic.
 
My mare's buried, she was PTS christmas eve and I couldn't get anyone to take her, I couldn't leave her in the stable until new year.
 
When my beautiful mare was put to sleep, i enqired about cremating her and having her ashes returned but was quoted (in May 06) that it would be £1000. Sadly, far too expensive for me so the vet arranged for her to be collected and she was (or I certainly HOPE she was) taken to a local incinerator where cows and such like are done. I do believe she went where she was supposed to as it was an extremely reputable company who i would hope couldn't risk their reputation by not doing as the owner requested. Think it cost about £250. I didn't want her buried as where we lived we knew we wouldn't be there forever (have since moved!) and couldn't bear the thought of leaving her behind. Sounds odd I know. I was with her when she was put to sleep, but couldn't be there when the man came to take her away so my other half dealt with that.
 
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i will ask them if any of mine would be useful to the vet uni, if not they will either go to Potters, ..or if poorly shot at home and taken away.

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I read that so wrong! I was thinking why not get them shot properly instead of poorly. I must learn to think and read at the same time
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My last two were both cremated and scattered in their garden of rest as I couldn't warrant the extra £600 odd pounds to have to ashes returned to me .
 
I love the idea of having my horse cremated and having the ashes turned into a diamond with that posh new technique so they are always with me. Unfortunately when Sovereign went to the great big field in the sky 7 years ago the diamond technique wasn't available. I wanted him to go to the Ledbury hunt as that was who he had whipped in for but unfortunately he'd got too many drugs on board so it couldn't happen - we had to have him cremated and I've got a peice of his tail in a locket that I never take off. It truely is the most horrible decision to have to make and I really hope it will be a long, long time before I have to go through it all again.
 
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At a stables we used to use it was time for one of the other owners to make the dreaded decision for her aged and very arthritic horse. Obviously she was very upset, however her partner did manage to make her laugh by asking her, in all seriousness, whether she wanted him stuffed.

Where would you keep a 16.2hh stuffed horse?!! How much would it cost?! (for the taxidermist)



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I think I can help you here - costs approx £1000 (I have asked, when inebriated)...if you waterproofed the stuffed horse, or rugged it, you could pop it in the garden as an ornament. Think of the possibilities - you could have daffodils growing out of its a*se for example.
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