Post by snowflake on Sept 9, 2011 16:12:02 GMT
This happened ages ago but tore our hearts so just thought I share this with you all....
Ages ago our little Section A mare was due to go to be served at a stud around 3 hours away. We told the owners of the stallion, look, she doesn't load very well, but if you hit her, she'll just stand there & take it - don't blindfold her: she's not stupid, she's only little she just needs a few men to 'gently' push her up & she'll realize she's been beaten - it doesn't hurt her at all, she's just a clever little pony! We had some transport people we'd used several times to take her down to the stud. We helped them load her, just pushed her up. She isn't petrified at ALL of travelling she is just a stubborn pony!!
During the time she was away, the owners of the stallion rang several times to say they don't think she was being served. After what seemed like a while they rang us & said "Nothing's going to happen". Too found of our little pony we said, look, it doesn't matter we'll send the transport people down to you to pick her up - they know how to load her & her tricks! They said "Oh it's okay, we've got to bring a pony up to Lancs area, it's just past you."
They arrived back to us in Cheshire - with only her loaded. We said oh where's the other pony? They live down south & travelled up to north Lancs dropped the other pony off then travelled down to us on the way back to drop poor Pandy off! She'd done a 2 & half hour waste-less journey! We asked if she'd been okay to load.... "Oh fine."
We knew Pandy she wouldn't just walk on.... slightly surprised they left & we checked on Pandy...
Around a week later we noticed Pandy had a thick, green snot coming out from her nose. We checked on her & said if she wasn't looking right we'd get the vet. She looked so ill, her eyes were dull, she just wasn't her usual self. We rang the vet & he said this wasn't just a 'cold'. We instantly thought she'd caught something from another pony. The vet said it was something to do with something blocking her throat.
After weeks of trauma, & Pandy just having a small chance of living, we asked the vet how it had been caused. Pandy now wouldn't get up, eat, drink anything.
She coughed in such pain. The vet gave her a several things etc, & only one of them just saved her life. A few more weeks later & she was on the mend again....
The vet told us what he'd though happened.... the most probable case was that she just had a small, small cold but it worsened because of her neck. The reason her throat & neck was so bad, we honestly didn't know. The vet was 99.9% sure that the people at the stud loaded her by putting ROPE tightly tied around her kneck & PULLED her on. Damaging her throat. This means now any time Pandy has a small cold, she has a 45% chance of leaving us.
Just to say if we EVER send a mare off to be served we will definitely be more careful - PICK YOUR STUDS WISELY. You never want to go through what we have & still will go through.
Every time she has a bit too much grass, or gets a cold she is seriously ill. Pandy now has a strict diet & routine & is perfectly happy & healthy & sound.
Please be careful
Ages ago our little Section A mare was due to go to be served at a stud around 3 hours away. We told the owners of the stallion, look, she doesn't load very well, but if you hit her, she'll just stand there & take it - don't blindfold her: she's not stupid, she's only little she just needs a few men to 'gently' push her up & she'll realize she's been beaten - it doesn't hurt her at all, she's just a clever little pony! We had some transport people we'd used several times to take her down to the stud. We helped them load her, just pushed her up. She isn't petrified at ALL of travelling she is just a stubborn pony!!
During the time she was away, the owners of the stallion rang several times to say they don't think she was being served. After what seemed like a while they rang us & said "Nothing's going to happen". Too found of our little pony we said, look, it doesn't matter we'll send the transport people down to you to pick her up - they know how to load her & her tricks! They said "Oh it's okay, we've got to bring a pony up to Lancs area, it's just past you."
They arrived back to us in Cheshire - with only her loaded. We said oh where's the other pony? They live down south & travelled up to north Lancs dropped the other pony off then travelled down to us on the way back to drop poor Pandy off! She'd done a 2 & half hour waste-less journey! We asked if she'd been okay to load.... "Oh fine."
We knew Pandy she wouldn't just walk on.... slightly surprised they left & we checked on Pandy...
Around a week later we noticed Pandy had a thick, green snot coming out from her nose. We checked on her & said if she wasn't looking right we'd get the vet. She looked so ill, her eyes were dull, she just wasn't her usual self. We rang the vet & he said this wasn't just a 'cold'. We instantly thought she'd caught something from another pony. The vet said it was something to do with something blocking her throat.
After weeks of trauma, & Pandy just having a small chance of living, we asked the vet how it had been caused. Pandy now wouldn't get up, eat, drink anything.
She coughed in such pain. The vet gave her a several things etc, & only one of them just saved her life. A few more weeks later & she was on the mend again....The vet told us what he'd though happened.... the most probable case was that she just had a small, small cold but it worsened because of her neck. The reason her throat & neck was so bad, we honestly didn't know. The vet was 99.9% sure that the people at the stud loaded her by putting ROPE tightly tied around her kneck & PULLED her on. Damaging her throat. This means now any time Pandy has a small cold, she has a 45% chance of leaving us.
Just to say if we EVER send a mare off to be served we will definitely be more careful - PICK YOUR STUDS WISELY. You never want to go through what we have & still will go through.
Every time she has a bit too much grass, or gets a cold she is seriously ill. Pandy now has a strict diet & routine & is perfectly happy & healthy & sound. Please be careful
Just can't believe someone would put a rope round any animals neck - sickens us 
that's discusting!