What would you do if this was your beloved pony?

I couldn't have done that, it killed me seeing my mare with laminitis and she had no rotations :( if my mare ever went down with laminitis this badly I would have to PTS as it would just not be fair on her to keep treating if she couldn't even stand!
 
That poor horse was in agony for months, there is no way I could do that to one of mine. It's great that he's now happy and better but I could not put a living thing through that pain.
 
Without a doubt i would have put to sleep. the poor boy was in agony and it was selfish to keep him going, especially if he was down for 23hours a day.

that is my opinion though.
 
Even if one of mine was in so much pan they were down for one hour I'd be euthanizing. No animal deserves to live in unmanageable pain with minimal chance of recovery.
 
having read the whole thing through, the pictures of the hooves recovering are really interesting.

However, if he'd have been mine I would have pts.
 
I love my horses to pieces - they are my world! - but if any of them were in this much pain, then I would have them put to sleep, however heartbreaking.
 
That is exactly what I would do too. I was reading this at work and was totally gobsmacked at how much suffering that poor pony went through. I would have most certainly put that pony to sleep. My pony is just recovering from a very mild bout of laminitis and it broke my heart to see her hobbling never mind in agony with its hooves almost falling off. I doubt vets in this country would allow a pony to suffer like that?

On the other hand, seeing how amazing nature is at repairing its self, it gives me great hope for my pony's future. x
 
That he was down for so long and grinding his teeth and trembling in pain - way way too much. I couldn't put ours through that and I would pts. No animal or human should go through that. Poor soul.
 
Pts.. I let my horse go Tuesday and he was nowhere near that bad.. We were treating a seroma under P3 following rotation 18 months ago, although he'd been sound and unmedicated 12 months.. He was fine lunchtime, always on his feet the whole 18 months, but down with gritted teeth at 15.30 on this day.. I called my vet saying I believed we needed to let him go, vet arrived 17.40 and before 18.15 my baby was gone.. An extremely hard time emotionally for me but I promised him the day I bought him that I'd never let him suffer.. I did what was best for him and although my heart aches badly at the hole he has left, it was unquestionably the right thing to do for him..

My farrier was called to trim a horse in Aus/NZ.. It had been down a month and couldn't get up.. He called vet, said he couldn't trim and it was pts case.. Horse was covered in open pressure sores.. It was another 3 months until the poor horse was pts..

Druid's team were incredibly fortunate to have him recover and i agree its an interesting tale but personally I couldn't justify allowing that level of pain to continue in an animal with no voice and no choice..
 
I am so sorry to hear that :O( Surely as horse owners it is our responsibility to ensure they never suffer, no matter how hard it is for us. xxx
 
KSR said:
My farrier was called to trim a horse in Aus/NZ.. It had been down a month and couldn't get up.. He called vet, said he couldn't trim and it was pts case.. Horse was covered in open pressure sores.. It was another 3 months until the poor horse was pts..
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Sickening! No matter how much you love your horse, surely they knew what they were doing was inhumane and t wasn't going to get better
 
I read the article with a great deal of concern I'm afraid. This is almost exactly what happened to my old boy and I couldn't ever put any horse through that again; when he went down and wouldn't get up to poo, and stopped eating, the vet and I both decided that was enough and he was PTS.

So that's what I would have done in this case.

Yes I'm glad (of course) that the horse in question did pull through; however frequently with laminitics/EBS the symptoms and presentation are different and there's no hard and fast rule, what may work in one instance may not work in another and unfortunately articles like this tend to give false hope, which may mean that someone somewhere might just keep their poor horse alive and cause it unnecessary suffering in the false hope that all will work out well in the long term, and it just won't, not in every case, and there's a lot of us on here who've had to make very tough choices, and I'm afraid that articles like that really don't help one iota when you've had to make that PTS decision.
 
I am glad that the horse finally recovered and is now happy, but to have gone through so much pain and suffering to get there, I honestly would have had him PTS.
 
Personally I wouldn`t have let him get that obese in the first place! :mad: thus preventing the whole thing from even occurring...

Glad he is ok now though...

Maybe his owners will watch his weight from now on!

I would have prob PTS
 
Would have PTS - no way would I let my horse go through the amount of pain that he was evidently in seeing as he was down 23 hours a day. I winced when I saw his pedal bone rotation, and didn't like that he was being ridden even though on gravel/similar terrain he was obviously not right.

I am fascinated by the changes in his hoof though, particularly the x-rays.
 
So everyone would have put the pony to sleep. Just goes to show what a caring and selfless bunch we are, and what lucky neddies we have :O) xx
 
It was hard enough watching my horse when he had a very mild bout of laminitis, I could never entertain watching him in the amount of pain that that horse must have been in. The horses' bones had come through the sole of his foot- the pain must have been unimaginable.
 
If it were one of mine, I'd have had it put to sleep...however, looking at the photos of the hooves over the time period is very informative as to what's going on and how the hoof wall, abscesses, etc, show and grow out and the damage they cause, also the info about laminitis being a whole-system failure not just a fat horse/grass issue.
 
fatponee said:
Honestly? I think I would have PTS when pony was lying down 23 hours a day :( Just my opinion though, so don't beat me up!
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Same here. Someone once defiined the deciding point as being 'when a horse cannot be a horse', including having the ability of flight/movement. This would come under that, I think.
 
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