Expensive pet month!

[zina10]

Oh, I've got you all beat.

4 years ago my mare decided to stuff herself with hay (all about food) yet didn't drink enough. Because who needs water when it cools down

A terrible colic ensued and after a 12 hours of wrestling with a 1200 pound crazed from pain animal, constantly giving shots and checking IV line, holding up a huge and heavy IV bag with a broomstick so its higher then the horse while trying to keep the horse next to you when its fighting to drop down and roll, we went to the animal hospital 3 hours away. In the middle of the night.

Thought for sure she would go down in the trailer and we'd have to pull her out with ropes, but she made it standing up.

After a bunch of doctors and Vet students worked on her furiously doing all kinds of checks, they suddenly stopped and looked at me and said, its surgery or we have to put her down. Surgery...to the beat of $6000. On a aged mare. Surgery that often doesn't work. If it does, high incidence of post op problems or recurrence. I used to think if it ever came to this, I wouldn't put a horse through this.

But after this night from hell and the exhaustion, when they all stared at me, including my old girl, the wrong words tumbled out of my mouth. Instead of "put her down" which is what I wanted to say, "lets do it" came out. And before I could even say another word they all went right back to work, furiously. So that was that.

She survived. And she recuperated. And there are so many days since then that she enjoyed life. So I do not regret it, even if she were to drop dead tomorrow. She is my therapy, she keeps me in shape going to the barn and doing physical labor every day, rain or shine. She makes me laugh, that horse has personality (and lots of opinions, but stays respectful

But yes, that bill was a whopper alright. I always tell everyone, I have a very expensive horse !!! LOL

Between all my animals, every month is "expensive pet month". Someone always needs something or other. 2 aged dogs, the horse, etc. Every now and then its for fun, like buying a new snake. My most recent being a Pastel Orange Dream Desert Ghost