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hoofbeatz81
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Posts: 14
From:Berwick,ME
Registered: Dec 2003

posted 12-09-2003 03:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for hoofbeatz81     Edit/Delete Message
i recently went to vermont with my friend AND HER AUNT HAD A HORSE SHE HAD RECENTLY RESCUED AND HE WAS SOOO SKINNY YOU COULD SEE HIS BACKBONE AND EVERY THING.HE WAS THE NICEST PONY YOU COULD EVER MEET AND HE WAS 27 YEARS OLD!!!I JUST FOUND OUT RECENTLY THAT HE HAS DIED.MY FRIENDS AUNT INFORMED ME THAT SHE WAS GOING TO TEACH HER 3 YEAR OLD SON TO RIDE ON HIM.PLEASE HELP ME GET OVER THIS!

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Samsintentions
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From:Columbus, Tx ,USA
Registered: Dec 2003

posted 12-10-2003 07:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Samsintentions     Edit/Delete Message
YEs, its a hard and yet too often of an event. LSER.Org is trying their best to help this awful thing from happening. Check out their site. WWW.LSER.ORG
You can donate, foster, adopt and learn much more on this site. Everyone can do a little to help. Spread the word. Lets help those who can not help themselves.

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debslegacyofgold
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From:Post Falls,Idaho
Registered: Oct 2003

posted 12-23-2003 05:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for debslegacyofgold     Edit/Delete Message
It is very hard..we just lost my daughters pony 2 wks ago..she had a twisted bowel..vet couldnt help her so he had to put her down.
One thing you have to remember abt older horses is they will get skinny even starve to death if their teeth arnt taken care of properly. and sometimes when they are way up there in age they dont have much left if any. and have to be feed diff. than the normal horse...we had an old gelding when i was a kid that didnt have any teeth...he was thin when we got him and we started feeding him bran mashes 3 times a day with rolled oats and corn oil. with carrots and apples cut up really really small..within a month he was looking really well and got his shine back and his ribs disappeard and so did his hips and back bone...so...those of you that have aged horses watch thier teeth extremly close..they should be checked every couple of months. and even a young horse sometimes needs to have thier teeth floated also.

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Cowgirls live hard, ride hard,and love forever!!

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Berriano
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From:Oakton, VA USA
Registered: Sep 2003

posted 01-01-2004 06:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Berriano     Edit/Delete Message
I work at a sales/boarding/training facility, and every now and then (when room permits and we have the extra money laying around) we rescue horses from a local trail group. Our last one was recently put down, but he came to us almost 30 years old, a few hundred pounds underweight, all dirty and scraggly. He had given his life to taking people on western trail rides, packing them along and being the best of the best in his line of work. And for what? To be thrown out in an overgrazed field where he couldn't even get a wisp of hay, because he was low man on the totem pole. We had him for just under 6 months before his body finally started shutting down and we had to put him down. But at least he finished out his life as he deserved.

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