Are we, as good horse owners, ever ready to let go?  My emphasis is on “good horse owners” because so many “bad horse owners” just dump their faithful companions like a bad transmission after they become old, or not even old, just injured.  Just pop down to your local heart-wrenching horse auction to see what we are talking about.  Shame on you.  So I guess this blog is just for “good horse owners”.  When it is time to let go have your Vet put them down.  Send them to the “big pasture in the sky”. The pasture with the safe fencing and the Angels to keep them from injury. 

Anyway, it seems to be so easy for other people to tell you “it is time” when they are not in the your shoes.  The horse is still walking, trotting, eating (not as well), pooping, drinking water and peeing.  So why is it “time”?  She doesn’t look that great.  She walks stiff legged.  So why is it “time”?  I didn’t put my Grandmother down and she couldn’t walk at all and we had to help feed her.  Still, she claimed she was happy and she smiled all of the time because she knew she was loved and cared for.

Our friend Betty’s horse is now 32 years old.  God, we love Lady (pictured above).  The other boarders are complaining that her time is way overdue.  We wish that they would just mind their own business and support Betty’s decision to let Lady stay alive another week.  This is a day to day, week to week, ordeal for this paint.

Since Betty usually lets Lady roam the property with her stall gate open Lady usually hangs out with the geldings in the barn.  They are her boy friends.  So she poops and pees in the barn aisle.  One of the other boarders was complaining what an inconvenience it is to pick up Lady’s poop and “the whole barn smells like pee”.  Come on, it’s a barn!  I pick up her poop.  I even brush her when I have time.  Betty is here with Lady twice a day.  That is what good human beings are supposed to do…help each other.  Especially since our group are all “horse lovers”.  I don’t know why the rest of the boarders do not want to support Betty and help her any way that they can.  That is what good people do.

So, when is it time?  When the horse owner, Betty, says it is time and not a second sooner.  We hope Lady lives another year or more.

What do you think?