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i am a 13 yr old girl and my quatrer horse breeze is to. she is bffs with my palamino sparkles. sparkles went lame after the 2 weeks we had her and we cant ride her without her limping real bad with pain. but when i ride breeze away of her sight they freak out and buck rear bolt and she has had some injuryies withy the fence. we are going to sell sparkles in an auction soon and we r worried about what breeze will do when she has left. when we ut sparkles in a different field breeze has a metal stall sorta thing where we close it so they wont eat eachothers food she made it looked deformed and broke it im afarid of riding her when we sell sparkles wat should i do HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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first off, WHY are you selling a dead lame horse to an auction?
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| hey! i ride alot of buddy sour horses for my trainer and it sucks so i know how you feel. my horse is even a little buddy sour. its bad when they cant see eachother but they can smell then or they know they are still around, thats when they start acting like idiots. especially my horse because he bonds really quickly with others and so when we leave them he throws fits and bucks and takes off. so usually the first 20 minutes or so before the show we spend lunging doing circles and lots of backing before he gets it. usually when they are alone they don't take off or have thoughs issues. its really when you first take them away from eachother. horses are social animals so when you take them away from their "herd" then they freak out and just want to be back with them. its going to take some adjusting but i think your horse will be fine because he wont be able to smell her and he knows shes gone so he wont be looking for her. if you find something else that works let me know because my horse does the same thing lol
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sparkles is not dead she is just lame some young college guy sold her to us and the first 2 weeks we had he she went lame we cant ride her without her limping and being in pain we have been to at least 3vets over the state sorta and they all say differernet things and different medications we dont want to just put her in the pasture jus to be there for fun right Me and my grandparents dont know wat to do!!!!
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hey how old r u im 13
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How old is who? And I agree, why are you selling a lame horse in an auction?! Do you have any idea where she could be going?
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| ~The Killers~ Seriously, though. It is the sad truth.
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She's going straight to the kill pen. She's got a long ride to Mexico to end up on somebody's dinner plate. Do here a favor, don't send her to the auction. Put a bullet in her head instead. Have the vet euthanize her. Don't send her to auction. Nobody will give a lame horse a "forever home" in this market.
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Oh dear God....
Darling, "dead lame" doesn't mean dead. Think about it for a second and you will realize that there is a word after "dead". "Dead lame" means that the horse can't be worked at all without limping badly.
And as others have said, why in God's name are you selling a lame horse at auction? She is going to go to the slaughter houses. There is no maybe in this. Good, sound (<- that word means "not lame", I'm not talking about the "Sound of Music" sound) horses are going to slaughter. What do you think is going to happen to a lame horse?
My guess is that either your family has their heads under a rock (or stuck in a similarly dark, secluded place) and don't realized that the economy is crappy, or you genuinely don't care about what happens to the horse.
Either way you need a serious reality check. Slaughter in Mexico is quite possibly the worst way for an animal to die (maybe a little better or tied with slowly burning to death). After riding on trailers with 24-48+ hours (during which time they horses have no food or water and generally kick and bite the snot out of one another), they are dumped at the slaughter houses. There, they are killed through a number of equally twisted methods, including having their throat slit and bleeding to death.
Also, unlike the US slaughter houses, Mexican slaughter houses are not regulated. That means that horses can continue past the "kill" station to where they are gutted and have their hide ripped off, even if they aren't completely dead yet.
Now that that is out of they way, I HOPE that you are smart enough to insist that your parents don't sell your horse to that fate. Keeping in mind that I doubt a lame horse will sell for very much (even if bought by the pound for meat), the only sensible and humane thing to do is euthanize her. It costs less than $100 in my area to euthanize a horse and dispose of the body.
You could also keep her as a pasture pet, but I'm assuming your parent's don't want to keep around a hungry mouth that can't work. Understandable considering this crappy economy. You may say "but I don't want my horsie to die!! I'm just going to sell her to a nice family". Well, dear, no you won't. You won't be selling her to a nice family. You will be selling her to a horrible death. You can't always tell the kill buyers just by looking at them, and I'm sure if you ask they are more than willing to tell a sweet little girl such as your self that MyLittlePony is going to their huge farm where she will have all the lollipops and gum drops in the world to eat.
If you can afford to own horses, than you can afford to give them a humane death. $100 is not that much money. Do the right thing.
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| Do you have a vet? If so call them and have your horse checked out. Obviously, your other mare probably has never been checked either, so have her checked out while the vet is there. If you don't have a vet, call one and have them come out. It is horrifying that you and your family are so willing to send a horse that you are responsible for off to auction to meet a more likely than not gruesome death. At least have her euthanized, as others have said, to let her go peacefully. I mean, no, you won't get the $50 out of it from the auction, but at least you won't have a suffering animal on your concience.
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