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Location: Indiana | This just makes me sick! I'm so sorry. |
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| I am SO very sorry! Bless your heart for trying. |
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Location: Illinois | Thank you everyone for all the kind words and prayers. I plan to find whoever did this and make sure that she pays for what she did to this sweet animal. Even in the last stages of life he never stopped being a sweet loving horse. As I sat with him last night he put his head in my lap as I cried and tears fell on his face. He even nickered to me when I walked into the barn for the last time to see him. I was so sure that he would have the strength to pull through but he was just to weak to fight off the infection and the emaciation at the same time. I wish I could have been there with him when he passed but it was almost like he was holding on until I left him to go so I didn't have to see it happen. I know I had only had him for three days but the last 72 hours I have continually stayed by his side and never left, hand fed and watered him and kept him warm. I actually fell asleep next to him yesterday with my hand on his face. The only way to keep him from thrashing around was for me to be right by his head. I never thought I could grow to love him so fast but it happened. I hope he felt that love and died knowing he was loved.
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Location: Illinois | Jo Ann - 2014-12-04 8:14 PM
We raised him and own Nonstop Firewater. I'm so sorry you are going through all this. He was a great horse when he was younger! I don't remember him being cold backed! But I lost track of who owned him years ago. Praying he will be ok!
I am so glad you commented. I was hoping to find out some more information about him as I planned to fatten him up and get him back on barrels. I really am not sure if he was actually cold backed or just in pain and needed work. I wish I would have had the chance to see what kind of horse he really was. I'm sure he was a great boy, he was so loving even in sickness. |
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Location: Charlestown, IN | So sorry to hear. Not the update I was hoping to read. :( Prayers for you. I am glad he died being cared for and loved and not a cold cruel death wherever he was before. May the person who did this to Slim Jim rot in hell. |
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| I'm so sorry. Thank you for helping him spend his last days feeling loved and cared about. |
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | There is a reason he came into your life, though briefly. He deserved to cross the bridge knowing kindness and love from humans. God put him there.
I hope you find the person who did this. What a total POS. I would leave no stone unturned in ruining her life.
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| God Bless You! I'm so sorry that you lost him. This person should be hung for doing that to an innocent animal! |
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Location: Central Texas | ShortyHorse11 - 2014-12-05 11:02 AM
Thank you everyone for all the kind words and prayers. I plan to find whoever did this and make sure that she pays for what she did to this sweet animal. Even in the last stages of life he never stopped being a sweet loving horse. As I sat with him last night he put his head in my lap as I cried and tears fell on his face. He even nickered to me when I walked into the barn for the last time to see him. I was so sure that he would have the strength to pull through but he was just to weak to fight off the infection and the emaciation at the same time. I wish I could have been there with him when he passed but it was almost like he was holding on until I left him to go so I didn't have to see it happen. I know I had only had him for two days but the last 72 hours I have continually stayed by his side and never left, hand fed and watered him and kept him warm. I actually fell asleep next to him yesterday with my hand on his face. The only way to keep him from thrashing around was for me to be right by his head. I never thought I could grow to love him so fast but it happened. I hope he felt that love and died knowing he was loved.
Bless your heart. I have tears streaming down my face as I read that. Thank you again for being there for him. |
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Location: California | I will never understand how people can do this to an animal. Yes, there is a special place in hell for those people and I for one would love to speed the process up. God bless you for trying to help this horse. If there is anything I can do to help find who did this, please PM me. |
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Location: Texas | I am so sorry. This just made me cry. How can some people be so cruel? I have no doubt that God put you there for him. I am sorry it turned out this way. |
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Location: In a happy place | I am so sorry. I just can't seem to quit crying. I have lost so much this last year and ahalf and this touches home. Thank you sweet lady for doing all you could to help him. |
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| sorrel horse ranch - 2014-12-05 2:08 PM I am so sorry. I just can't seem to quit crying. I have lost so much this last year and ahalf and this touches home. Thank you sweet lady for doing all you could to help him.
Same here. I lost my most favorite mare this past June and can't get her out of my mind, so it boggles me that people could do such things. I will never, ever understand how one living being could do this to another, especially one that can't do for itself. |
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Location: In the wrong place at the wrong time | I am so sorry. I 'm absolutely heartbroken for you but so grateful that he got to spend his last days with you and know love and kindness.
I pray that the horrible person that did this to him never does this again. |
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Location: Illinois | I found out tonight that the miserable person who did this has been reported to the humane society and the department of agriculture and will get what is coming to her. I can rest a little easier tonight knowing this. |
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Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | ShortyHorse11 - 2014-12-05 6:01 PM I found out tonight that the miserable person who did this has been reported to the humane society and the department of agriculture and will get what is coming to her. I can rest a little easier tonight knowing this.
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Location: Illinois | We got Slim buried yesterday. He has a spot out behind the barn where he will always be with the other horses. I plan to make a cross for his grave tonight. It was very hard watching him be buried but I know he is finally in his resting place. |
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