Post by howengold on Aug 4, 2012 0:18:39 GMT
I have had a bad time of it lately and two of my losses included my life long friend Mony and her best pal Sov.
Mony was bought for me in 1988 as a young neglected unbacked filly for £75 who according to my vet needed to be pts as she was full of worms had a parrot jaw and in his words "why on earth did your grandad let you buy this thing it's nothing but a walking it of dog food".....advice to anyone don't tell me my animals are better off dead, I end up proving people wrong. Mony died aged 30 years old and from a suspected brain tumour. She was with me through all my difficulties as a child, teenager and adult including my divorce and the diagnosis of Aerons disabilities. She got me through it all. When I felt my world was collapsing due to my grandparents death she was there for me and we fought the world together. My husband always says I was his knight in shining armour as Mony took me in to his life and she was one of the things that got us together. I miss her so much and I know since loosing my son in June she would have dragged me through again if she was here now. Thank you my darling for all the years of shows, hacks, hunts and fun. You won more rosettes than any other pony I know, taught so many people to ride and when you were pts I recieved hundreds of emails, texts and Facebook messages, everyone in my family and our vet got hugs off people they didn't know or had forgotten, people who had a Mony memory. You will never be forgotten?
Sovereign Pretty Lady 1971 to 2010
I only owned Sov two years, she had been a friends pony and not done very well in her last years healthwise so I bought her for £50 and we would go for light hacks and even done a cople of veteran classes a year always got placed and I loved that she and my Mony were inseparable. Sov had been bred for SJ but had sustained an injury and sold on to a breeder, she then got sold on after just one foal and became a hack in the 1990's for a client at the livery yard I worked at, later she was sold to my friend and that's how I got her. This was a scatty Arab x welsh who even at 38 managed to tank off on me and give me a livelier ride than my youngsters ever did. She and I had a connection and she shared my heart with my Mony. Sov, died on 2nd December, she had a severe bout of colic. Sovereign hated being stabled and that night she collapsed in the snow where a friend found her and we were picked up and the vet called, I had seen her 2 hours before and she had been her happy self so to watch her collapsing in the yard was horrific, when the vet suggested we stabled her over night I wouldn't and said I couldn't risk her stressing and dying alone so we made the decision to put her to sleep so she wouldn't suffer. I will never regret that decision as I know stabling her would have driven her to her own death.
I am fortunate to have all my horses and ponies into their veteran years and I think when their time comes they deserve a dignified end, I just wish humans could have that choice xxx
RIP my little grey and ginge xxx
Mony was bought for me in 1988 as a young neglected unbacked filly for £75 who according to my vet needed to be pts as she was full of worms had a parrot jaw and in his words "why on earth did your grandad let you buy this thing it's nothing but a walking it of dog food".....advice to anyone don't tell me my animals are better off dead, I end up proving people wrong. Mony died aged 30 years old and from a suspected brain tumour. She was with me through all my difficulties as a child, teenager and adult including my divorce and the diagnosis of Aerons disabilities. She got me through it all. When I felt my world was collapsing due to my grandparents death she was there for me and we fought the world together. My husband always says I was his knight in shining armour as Mony took me in to his life and she was one of the things that got us together. I miss her so much and I know since loosing my son in June she would have dragged me through again if she was here now. Thank you my darling for all the years of shows, hacks, hunts and fun. You won more rosettes than any other pony I know, taught so many people to ride and when you were pts I recieved hundreds of emails, texts and Facebook messages, everyone in my family and our vet got hugs off people they didn't know or had forgotten, people who had a Mony memory. You will never be forgotten?
Sovereign Pretty Lady 1971 to 2010
I only owned Sov two years, she had been a friends pony and not done very well in her last years healthwise so I bought her for £50 and we would go for light hacks and even done a cople of veteran classes a year always got placed and I loved that she and my Mony were inseparable. Sov had been bred for SJ but had sustained an injury and sold on to a breeder, she then got sold on after just one foal and became a hack in the 1990's for a client at the livery yard I worked at, later she was sold to my friend and that's how I got her. This was a scatty Arab x welsh who even at 38 managed to tank off on me and give me a livelier ride than my youngsters ever did. She and I had a connection and she shared my heart with my Mony. Sov, died on 2nd December, she had a severe bout of colic. Sovereign hated being stabled and that night she collapsed in the snow where a friend found her and we were picked up and the vet called, I had seen her 2 hours before and she had been her happy self so to watch her collapsing in the yard was horrific, when the vet suggested we stabled her over night I wouldn't and said I couldn't risk her stressing and dying alone so we made the decision to put her to sleep so she wouldn't suffer. I will never regret that decision as I know stabling her would have driven her to her own death.
I am fortunate to have all my horses and ponies into their veteran years and I think when their time comes they deserve a dignified end, I just wish humans could have that choice xxx
RIP my little grey and ginge xxx