Keeping up appearances.......

HappyNow

Thank you for your thoughts. It's done, and I feel heart-broken and bereaved.

Both horses were old and had age-related health problems. They were both on permanent pain-killers. On Tuesday one of them had a nasty incident in the field and we knew it was time to arrange a 'pleasant' ending, before nature ended it cruelly. With our vet, we made the very difficult decision that in view of the other one's age and health problems it would be kinder to let them both go together.

Massive credit to our vet who was so compassionate and competent. They both went to sleep, side-by-side, simultaneously, while eating their favourite food, with no distress or stress whatsoever. They had no idea anything untoward was happening, and Mr Happy, Little Miss Happy and I were with them throughout.

I'm pretty wrecked and keep thinking I need to go and muck out or change rugs or something. It will take a while to adjust .

Dolphin1

Again, I'm so sorry HappyNow, that really is heartbreaking to hear. I just don't know what else to say because I know nothing that I can say will make you feel better. Lots more hugs :grouphug:.

Honey_Bear

It takes a huge amount of thought, planning and effort to make their last moments peaceful and stress-free for the animals. Well done to the whole Happy family for pulling out the stops with the vet and taking the tough decisions necessary for the animals' welfare. They couldn't have had a more caring and loving home, and they'll run free very happily wherever it is that our animals' spirits go.

More (((hugs))).

Dolphin1

:hello: HappyNow.

I'm on holiday this week but just wanted to drop by to send my best wishes and some more hugs :grouphug:. Hope you are ok.

Honey_Bear

Hi Happy. :wave:

I hope things aren't too sad in the Happy House, that Happy Pops is still holding his own and you're all coping. When you're ready to post again I'll restart, but I just felt that allowing you a little time would be the right thing to do. (((Hugs)))

HappyNow

Dolphin1 wrote: »

:hello:
I'm on holiday this week but just wanted to drop by to send my best wishes and some more hugs :grouphug:. Hope you are ok.

Hi Dolphin :)
Thanks for thinking of me, ESPECIALLY while you are on holiday. Hope you are having a lovely, lovely time. I'm coming round now thanks

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I hope things aren't too sad in the Happy House, that Happy Pops is still holding his own and you're all coping. When you're ready to post again I'll restart, but I just felt that allowing you a little time would be the right thing to do. (((Hugs)))

Things have been very sad in the Happy House, but we are all coming to terms with it now. Happy Pops is pretty much the same, thanks, which isn't great but could be worse.

HappyNow

Hello and welcome to the last morose post of this thread! For a while at least **crosses fingers and eyes**

It's been a sad, sad week and I have spent most of it in tears, but it's time now to pull myself together and get on with my new normal.

Despite the sadness I know we did the kindest thing in letting them go, so I am going to focus on the positives of not owning horses - of which there are several!

• Money. They were costing about £50 pw to keep (and that's just feed, bedding, farrier, medication - we have our own land and stables). I can now afford to hit my DF target date of Feb 19 if I increase the debt repayments to £1200 monthly.
• Commitments. We now have more freedom to go away for days (maybe even the odd weekend) without worrying about who will look after them and whether they will be OK.
• Energy. Mucking out is hard work. So is fencing, fetching feed, mending fences etc etc.
• Time. They took about an hour per day just for general looking after.

So, there we go. Some positives to look forward to. I'm going to pull on my leopard print jeggings and hit life running again!

Happy

(ps, you can take your hands from your eyes, I don't really own any leopard print jeggings)

joeyjimbles

Can we have your address please, we will all send you leopard print jeggings to make you smile.

I'm just back from holidays and then a week of illness and chaos, so I've just caught up with you all. I'm so sorry about your loss but I do agree that it was the best if probably the most difficult thing to do. They start off as animals and become family, don't they?

You are very brave and strong, and I hope that things start to look up from now on. The sun is shining here, which always helps, I hope it is where you are.

Dolphin1

Lovely to hear from you HappyNow and glad to see that you are trying to look for the positives no matter how difficult it is. I really hope things start to improve for you from now on too.

chevalier

Good luck with your new normal
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