What's the lowest point you've had with your horses?

Mine has to be loosing my horse of a lifetime suddenly after a quick illness :(
along with many other happenings in my life at the time My life stank really....but perseverance and I am on the way back up again...phew!
 
robden said:
Having to have my 25yo part-bred arab mare Ellie (Magic Elf) put to sleep yesterday afternoon, after 20 years together!!!

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Oh I am sorry to hear that... RIP Ellie :(
 
Tazhazzamoose said:
today, my confidence was shattered as i was riding a green mare who got silly at her first show. it was all blamed on me and i was called names etc, if i'd been enouraged and told what to do in a nice way not put down or called pathetic for being nervous i could have dealt with it.
alas, i've been reminded i am a cr*p rider and will have to start from scratch.

officially my lowest i've ever felt since i was a tiny scared 11 year old with my first pony.
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bless you, i know how it feels. i regularly get told to switch my brain on and stop being so drippy which reduces me to a pathetic jelly-legged mess who couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag even in a private lesson with nobody watching. my horse went to his first show since his racing days a few weeks back and he was a total knob. i cried like a baby, was in a horrendous mood all morning and felt awful and disappointed afterwards.
you just have to remember you aren't a cr*p rider and next time will be better. all horses (and riders) have to start somewhere, it's not your fault she was silly.
 
losing my tb to a broken leg was possibly the most heartbreaking thing i have ever dealt with regarding the horses, nothing could have prepared me for what i found that day and i fully admit to turning into a blubbering wailing useless wreck whilst waiting for the vet to come and put her to sleep. Other than that my horses are actually the things that get me through the rest of the crap that life throws at us, :)
 
This year has been pretty much as bad as it gets. I had 2 cracking youngsters - due to my rubbish health I decided to sell the larger and younger of the 2. She sold within 2 weeks which was fairly bad seeing her go, but I was looking forward to concentrating on getting my Arab youngster really up and running ready fir some shows.

Gorgeous Arab boy then gets kicked in the field and suffers a broken leg and so he had to be PTS on 13th June. I am absolutely devastated - he was my shining star, and guaranteed he made me LOL every single day. He was a cheeky, wear-your-heart-on-your-sleeve, right royal pita at times, but boy I loved that little horse - he had such a huge heart and personality. He was one in a million and is completely irreplaceable
 
Bright_Spark said:
Thats horrid :mad: At least you had the guts to get on her and ride her, and I bet you did better on her than they would have done!

I've had many low points, but the worst are having horses PTS, anything else can be dealt with, one way or another.
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muddypony said:
bless you, i know how it feels. i regularly get told to switch my brain on and stop being so drippy which reduces me to a pathetic jelly-legged mess who couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag even in a private lesson with nobody watching. my horse went to his first show since his racing days a few weeks back and he was a total knob. i cried like a baby, was in a horrendous mood all morning and felt awful and disappointed afterwards.
you just have to remember you aren't a cr*p rider and next time will be better. all horses (and riders) have to start somewhere, it's not your fault she was silly.
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Thankyou both. It's worse when it's family saying that to you but as advised by a horsey friend i'll have to blur out nasty comments and concentrate on the horse i'm riding. I know I could have handled her confidently if i'd not been torn to pieces verbally ! Ah well, there's always another day. Thanks again x
 
It was a low day when they told me the Moose had navicular, that was 5 years ago

Then this year in february,

It was a low day when they told me I would never ride Meg again, then 18 days later the lowest day of all when they put her to sleep,

and 3 weeks ago I had my dog PTS at 14 years old, had him since a pup he was my special boy

It has not been a good year so far, how did the Queen put it ' an annus horribilis' !!!!!!

I too considered ending it all, but I think I'm supposed to stay and sort it all out...
 
maxapple said:
When my beautiful horse was kicked in the field and sustained a serious fracture to his leg.

We are amazingly lucky in that he recovered and we have recently started gently hacking him out again - but looking back at the 10 weeks we spent driving an hour round trip to the vets every night while he was there cross tied, and all the scares / complications we faced when we though we would lose him, then the further 4 months I spent going up to the yard at 5.30am in the depths of winter to do 2 ponies and my horse before work, and turn out my friends 2 horses as she had just had a baby, and then again just about every evening after work, I'm not quite sure how I did it!

Its all a very distant memory now however and I smile every single time I see him out in his field looking happy in the sunshine.
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my first ever pony had to be put down after about 15 years together about three weeks ago he was 28 and still looked amazing for him age, but he had to go because he was in alot of pain for about three days and the vet thinks it was a tuma or ulcer in his stomach :'(< i dont think i have ever cried so much in my entire life :'( and then about 6 months ago my horse got a bad kick and we could hardly walk him in from the feild becase he couldnot even put a slight bit of pressure on him leg :( he is just about fully recovered now and im having dressage lessons and i have only just started jumping him but hes being good :) xx
 
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wow, compared to everyone here, I've gotten off lightly so far and can only imagine losing either of my girlies.

I am waiting for the phone call to say my 11yr old GSD is going downhill. :(

The worst with my highland was when I moved to a yard and felt we had to be competitive. We lost our bond and her trust in me as we spent no time together chilling. I then moved to a yard where they played musical fields and her behaviour got so bad that my sweet pony was rearing and striking out towards me.
I contemplated selling her after watching her stressed and going over a gate. Thankfully, we found a new yard and she changed overnight.

With the Newfie, the day she got away with the leadrope round her legs, jumped the gate and tore off down the road was the most paniced I've ever been. She had never been on a road with cars and its awful thinking, do you phone the police to warn them. I had no idea what way she'd turned, how far she'd gone or if she'd fallen and broken a leg.
She actually went into a neightbour's garden and stood trembling waiting to be rescued.
 
I think my lowest point was with my last horse, a beautiful dapple grey Irish horse, who I bought to hunt and have fun with. Long, disappointing story full of self doubt and regret, I knew he had developed a back problem the day he completely lost it on the road outside the yard and bronced/reared/spun until he got me off on my back onto the road (in front of a bus - just to top it off!) but I never forced the issue with the vet. He had damaged both hind suspensories and so the vet stopped the diagnosis there and I was too wet to push my convictions. Several months down the line, I took him to the vet and insisted on spinal x rays and lo and behold, dreadful kissing spines which, coupled with his suspensory issues and behavioural problems, culminated in me having him put to sleep on the vets advice. I wish I'd persisted, I wish I hadn't been so feeble right from the start, and I regret having him put down. I should have fought for him and I didn't.

I also should never have posted about it on here either, because it was brought back up and the knife was twisted which was pointless as I already felt about as bad as possible about the whole thing. You live and learn! :)
 
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