PET DEATH

[Duchess]

One of my horses had to be euthanized yesterday. It wasn't a surprise. I've known for a couple months that the day was coming. He just turned 29 on January 1^st, racehorses turn another year older on the first of every year regardless of when they were actually born, that's why you would want your racehorse to foal as close after the new year as possible. He started losing weight a few months ago, he wasn't sick, he was just old. He was still eating and drinking & moving around well but yesterday he laid down and didn't want to get back up. It was time. I didn't want him to suffer. 

I comfort myself by knowing he had a great life. I rescued him years ago. He was no longer a productive racehorse and his owner was going to sell him to the killers and ship him off to Canada. There was nothing wrong with him, he just couldn't race any more and I knew I had enough space and enough love to give him so I brought him home.