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That’s good news about Frodo. I am very very sorry to hear about your baby Ditto losing her is hard to take.
Was Ditto the little filly that you were showing pictures of in a previous thread? I am so sorry. 😥 I am thrilled about Frodo, but do sad about Ditto.
I’m sorry to hear about your loss of Ditto, Phoenix; she sounded so promising. But I’m glad Frodo is making progress.
I was covering my mouth as I was reading this trying not to cry at work!!
I’m SOOOOOO sorry about your loss I LOVE horses and would LOVE to have one some day.
YEAH for Fordo though!!!
Phoenix wrote:Thanks all! I am really proud of Frodo and he is coming along. I’m hoping in OK he does well. Though it’s another UK judge so probably not much of a chance there. Not sure about the Canadian judge though.
Kyrin, Ditto at some point after feeding coliced and spent the night rolling around and thrashing in her stall. By the morning her poor little face was swollen and bruised and she wouldn’t get up. When the vet got there and we tubed her and gave her some pain meds she seemed to be doing better. But the ultrasound showed thickening of her intestines which probably meant she’d twisted something with all her rolling around. I sat and watched her all day and thought she was going to be OK, but in the afternoon she went down again. I called the vet out to repeat the ultrasound and her walls were a lot thicker. So I had to put her down. Colic is a terrible thing.
I think she got into Silo’s supplements as her bucket was on the ground. Either her or Silo must have knocked it down 😥Yeah, Cricket sanded, and then rolled. By the time I got home around 11pm that night, she was backing up from the pain, and there was dead silence in her guts. All the vet could do was help her go, she was already going into shock and dying shortly after he got there. Took him long enough, called him at 11:30pm, and he didn’t show up until nearly 3am. And I really have no idea if the drugs he gave her really helped much, since she went down to the ground and collapsed just as he went to give it. Charged me $350 and I don’t think he did a damn thing except show up and watch.
My landlord was actually more compassionate and helpful, and he was a tough as nails certified asshole. But he got his backhoe out and buried her for us.
Kyrin
eaglefeather831 wrote:Was Ditto the little filly that you were showing pictures of in a previous thread? I am so sorry. 😥 I am thrilled about Frodo, but do sad about Ditto.
Yeah… Here’s the last pictures we had of her. This was at the Santa Barbara Nationals where she was awarded double firsts.
She was really special.
I know. We were all so attached to her. Everyone at the barn was crying when they found out. But thankfully the barn owner didn’t make me send her to the tallow works. She was buried on the property.
We’ll have another soon. Maybe in a year or so…I’m so sorry about little Ditto. It breaks my heart!! She was so special!! 🙁
I’m glad to hear Frodo is settling down.
Phoenix wrote:I know. We were all so attached to her. Everyone at the barn was crying when they found out. But thankfully the barn owner didn’t make me send her to the tallow works. She was buried on the property.
We’ll have another soon. Maybe in a year or so…What are the tallow works? I am so glad that you could have a special burial place for her. She was beautiful. 😥
Tallow is what they make from dead animals. They process them into stuff like glue and ?
I didn’t want to have to think about her little body stacked in a truck of a bunch of other dead things.
Normally, I’m very realistic about such things. but she was different.Of course you wouldn’t want them to do something like that to Ditto’s remains 🙁 She was your little pal, and she wouldn’t have deserved a final end like that. I’m so sorry you had to lose her, Phoenix. She was a beautiful little girl.
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