Sad sad orrible day

[Pan]

They give you a lot when they're here and a lot when they're gone. Joy and pain, yes, all part of life but the pain and loss part is not something we are designed or supposed to get used to. Some do and they shouldn't have to.
I don't like the fact that we as a society give more to animal charities than humanitarian ones but it doesn't surprise me.

No niceties keeping horses when it comes to the end. Even as the " 'ard as nails bloke" I am (don't believe a word of it) having held up and supported the old dear below for six hours while the vet got there. Older than me, it was the right time for her. You aren't allowed to keep them afterwards, they have to go for cremation by law and it fell to me to oversee proceedings, the women, away together in group consolation. Once all done, I sat in the stable and broke and most of the time I just shovel their shit, but part of me stayed that way until that stable was filled again.

Many a child's first happy ride was on her, she could be stubborn and if the size of a normal horse would have been uncontrollable, but not a bad or malicious bone in her body.
Know what you are going through Emily. Xx