coco21
Nov. 25, 2008, 02:23 PM
My best friends horse was put to sleep at NC state last Friday after exploratory surgery found extensive damage from a bullet.
The horse was found standing in a pasture with his head hanging down unable to move. No one could figure out what was wrong with him. The symtoms weren't adding up. We thought virus, tick, poisoning... but nothing was adding up. There was a tiny wound in his side, everyone thought it was a tick bite, small with a tiny bit of fluid coming out. He was transported to NC state early the next morning where for the next week the vets tried in vain to figure out what was wrong with him. finally they x-rayed the small wound area and found a bullet logded in his liver. The bullet had gone through his stomach, spleen and into his liver. There was too much damage to save him.
This is heartbreaking. This horse was her pride and joy. She had had him for a couple years and worked with him to make him into a really nice horse. He had orginally been intended to be a breeding stallion. (his sire was the hunter Argus) He didn't perform well enough at the stallion trials to justify keeping him as a stallion so the breeder gelded him and that's when my friend bought him. We both grew up riding but until the past few years had only been able to afford the horses off the track... we had some nice ones and learned alot and had fun with them but always "ooo-ed and aaah-ed" over the warmbloods. Finally she was able to buy this horse.
The worst thing about this is that this was not an accident. A marine that was renting a house on the property stood 10' away from him and purposely shot him. Then didn't tell anyone what the horse was suffering from.
I'm not sure why I'm sharing this... it was such a freak thing and hopefully it will never happen to anyone else. I just thought people should know.
The horse was found standing in a pasture with his head hanging down unable to move. No one could figure out what was wrong with him. The symtoms weren't adding up. We thought virus, tick, poisoning... but nothing was adding up. There was a tiny wound in his side, everyone thought it was a tick bite, small with a tiny bit of fluid coming out. He was transported to NC state early the next morning where for the next week the vets tried in vain to figure out what was wrong with him. finally they x-rayed the small wound area and found a bullet logded in his liver. The bullet had gone through his stomach, spleen and into his liver. There was too much damage to save him.
This is heartbreaking. This horse was her pride and joy. She had had him for a couple years and worked with him to make him into a really nice horse. He had orginally been intended to be a breeding stallion. (his sire was the hunter Argus) He didn't perform well enough at the stallion trials to justify keeping him as a stallion so the breeder gelded him and that's when my friend bought him. We both grew up riding but until the past few years had only been able to afford the horses off the track... we had some nice ones and learned alot and had fun with them but always "ooo-ed and aaah-ed" over the warmbloods. Finally she was able to buy this horse.
The worst thing about this is that this was not an accident. A marine that was renting a house on the property stood 10' away from him and purposely shot him. Then didn't tell anyone what the horse was suffering from.
I'm not sure why I'm sharing this... it was such a freak thing and hopefully it will never happen to anyone else. I just thought people should know.