Post by jonib on Nov 18, 2009 3:21:19 GMT -1
It has been a while since I last posted on here,but do still pop in and read about you all.
I wanted to post on here to remember my little shetland Peaches,who sadly passed away overnight last week. She had been poorly all day on the Tuesday and the vet had been out to her twice,but when asked if we should think about ending it for her the vet said that he wasnt even thinking that way at that time...however I wasnt overly suprised when I had a phone call from our yard manager the next morning as I was leaving to go and see her to say that she had died in the night. That may sound odd,but the reason was the behaviour of her son and another shetland I own. They appear to have stood outside the stable door most of the previous night as there were loads of droppings in the doorway, whilst she was inside out of the rain. We had moved yards recently and Tuesday was to be the day we let the shetlands into the main field with the others. As she looked so poorly,sweating and breathing heavily,I decided to move the boys into the field ....Now this is when I suspected all was really not well. The other shetland is a rescue gelding who was put firmly in his place by Peaches when he arrived 10 years ago,and since then he has been inseparable from her. If they were apart as one was in the stable he would go mad,screaming his head off and running around. This day he just walked off into the field...I was shocked. He called twice during the day,and I think he was checking if she had gone yet.
The next morning,whilst waiting for her to be collected,I decided to let the boys see her.....Their attitude was "yeah we know" and they didnt react to her at all.
The vet thinks it may have been liver failure....she has been going blind for the last 2 years and we realy thought it would be losing her sight that would end her life,so it was a bit of a shock.
She came to me 11 years ago as a very nervous and possessive mother of a 3 week old foal. It took many years to get her to trust us,evening being scared of the noise of sweet wrappers or carrots being snapped. I nearly lost her afew years later to laminitis,but she made a remarkable recovery when her 2 "boys" came back from a 6 month loan...I think she was depressed without them.
She became a real character at our last yard,being allowed out to graze around teh barn when people where there and I think she started to think headcollars were very undignified..only needed for vet or farrier visits or she would run off!
She had settled in at the new yard really quickly and in fact even the day before all this she had trotted out for her feed as usual. At least hopefully that means her suffering was short lived..I do hope so.
I hope you will forgive this self indulgent rambling, but she really was a special little girl,and I hope that now she has crossed the Rainbow bridge she can see properly again at 25 years of age,and will meet up with her old field companions Sonny,Mizzy and Fly.
RIP Peaches...you are missed by many and things seem just a little empty without you xx
I wanted to post on here to remember my little shetland Peaches,who sadly passed away overnight last week. She had been poorly all day on the Tuesday and the vet had been out to her twice,but when asked if we should think about ending it for her the vet said that he wasnt even thinking that way at that time...however I wasnt overly suprised when I had a phone call from our yard manager the next morning as I was leaving to go and see her to say that she had died in the night. That may sound odd,but the reason was the behaviour of her son and another shetland I own. They appear to have stood outside the stable door most of the previous night as there were loads of droppings in the doorway, whilst she was inside out of the rain. We had moved yards recently and Tuesday was to be the day we let the shetlands into the main field with the others. As she looked so poorly,sweating and breathing heavily,I decided to move the boys into the field ....Now this is when I suspected all was really not well. The other shetland is a rescue gelding who was put firmly in his place by Peaches when he arrived 10 years ago,and since then he has been inseparable from her. If they were apart as one was in the stable he would go mad,screaming his head off and running around. This day he just walked off into the field...I was shocked. He called twice during the day,and I think he was checking if she had gone yet.
The next morning,whilst waiting for her to be collected,I decided to let the boys see her.....Their attitude was "yeah we know" and they didnt react to her at all.
The vet thinks it may have been liver failure....she has been going blind for the last 2 years and we realy thought it would be losing her sight that would end her life,so it was a bit of a shock.
She came to me 11 years ago as a very nervous and possessive mother of a 3 week old foal. It took many years to get her to trust us,evening being scared of the noise of sweet wrappers or carrots being snapped. I nearly lost her afew years later to laminitis,but she made a remarkable recovery when her 2 "boys" came back from a 6 month loan...I think she was depressed without them.
She became a real character at our last yard,being allowed out to graze around teh barn when people where there and I think she started to think headcollars were very undignified..only needed for vet or farrier visits or she would run off!
She had settled in at the new yard really quickly and in fact even the day before all this she had trotted out for her feed as usual. At least hopefully that means her suffering was short lived..I do hope so.
I hope you will forgive this self indulgent rambling, but she really was a special little girl,and I hope that now she has crossed the Rainbow bridge she can see properly again at 25 years of age,and will meet up with her old field companions Sonny,Mizzy and Fly.
RIP Peaches...you are missed by many and things seem just a little empty without you xx
Ridgelane Duke 
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