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Comment by vickie lawson on June 11, 2011 at 3:34am

ah tracy! that is such good advice. i cried when i read it. im still not over selling him!! even though i love my 2 babies i bred, he is a special horse! i will do that though!! thank you!

Comment by Cindy Jeffery on June 7, 2011 at 12:32pm

Thank you Tracy for sharing about the christmas ornaments.  I too will use your idea for the horses I have lost. :-)  I used to breed Morgans and still have all there records, so dates will be easy.

Comment by Tracy McDermott on June 6, 2011 at 10:50am

Vickie: Have an ornament or carving with Simons name and dates (that you know) and hang it in the barn or porch overhang. Just having it and having the good feelings you remember of him every time you see it is good for you and the world. His journey was to be with someone else, somewhere else but here or there your good energy will find him.

Comment by vickie lawson on June 6, 2011 at 2:48am

that sounds like a lovely way to remember them tracy! i don't know if we have blister beetles here in nz. i've never heard of them here before, and we are quite isolated. luckily, we have few of the horse diseases and viruses found in other parts of the world. you are so lucky to be able to own your horses birth to death!!! i had to sell a lovely horse, coming up 3 yrs ago now. he was related (same sire- and same looking horse) to cusake who was recently saved in the usa. i had purchased simon as a 4 rising 5 yr old, and owned him for 3 yrs before finances and feed and time meant i had to sell him.   i still miss him heaps! i love my babies i have bred, but simon was so special too!! (made worse by the forever home i sold him to, who didn't understand  him at all!!)

Comment by Tracy McDermott on June 5, 2011 at 7:08pm

Vickie: I know that blister beetles that have swarmed in a hay field and are cut with the hay and baled can cause exactly that damage. The beetles are green and yellow with hard little bodies. I'm sorry for your loss, every horse I've had was from birth to death. Some sooner than others. I have a Christmas ornament for each one with their name and life dates on it. Every year when I decorate the tree I remember them, every time I look at the tree I remember them and have all of them with me.

Comment by vickie lawson on June 5, 2011 at 5:09pm

we almost lost this girl to colic 6 yrs ago when she was just pregnant. ate something at the breeders that really did her in. it lasted/ continued/ developed in all forms over 2 months!! and we supported her through that, even to the point of having 24 hr watch on her for over 2 weeks.  she had masive edema in her legs and belly from the plasma leeching out of her blood due to her kidneys packing it in. in the end, the equine vet thought that whatever she ate had destroyed the lining of over 1/2 her large intestine and we had to wait for that to grow back. through it all she was kind, and trusting. truly a super mare! and she also still kept the foal- my lovely little delphi!!

thanks joe!!

Comment by Ellin McGinley Daum on June 4, 2011 at 10:29pm

Those precious memories will last a lifetime.  I lost my 4th level dressage mare to cushings at age 18 back in 2003.  That was before chaste tree berry extract and Pergolide so there were no treatment options.  The years that we had together were very precious.  I don't think I'll have that same relationship with any other horse.  We were together from her birth to her death with a partnership that will be very hard to equal.  Hope your happy memories sustain you.

Comment by vickie lawson on June 4, 2011 at 9:39pm

we had her on chaste tree berry extract for the past 2 yrs since diagnosed. my daughter had researched everything and that was the way she wanted to treat it. she was quite good up until this autumn. im glad i took charlotte and rose to a local ribbon day last nov 28th, for charlotte's birthday. i rode delphi, rose's daughter and charlotte, my daughter, rode rose, delphi's mum. it was a special day. we went in the flat classes in the morning with the 2 of them.

Comment by Ellin McGinley Daum on June 4, 2011 at 11:14am

Vickie, how sad you had to put your mare down.  We currently have 2 horses with Cushings.  One is 24, the other 21.  Both are receiving a drug called Pergolide that seems to slow, but not cure the disease.

I am very sorry for your loss.

Comment by Jackie Cochran on June 4, 2011 at 7:01am

I am so sorry you had to put your mare down, Vickie.

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