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Location: NeverLand | I am completely heart broken but want to see if anyone has heard of this or if anyone has any ideas so I can get some closure. I had 4 year old gelding as healthy as can be. In healthy weight. He was in shape I rode about 4 to 5 times a week. Saturday I had an amazing ride. He ate dinner that night . Yesterday morning I feed he was eating drinking just fine. After he finished his breakfast he went under his shed standing there with my two other horses. And I walked in the other room and about 10 mins later I look out my window and he was laying down. So I yelled his name and he didn't respond and that's not like him. So I ran out there and he was dead! It was like he dropped right in his tracks. He had a gash under his forelock on the soft spot and it looked like a pop from pressure? Could it be a brain aneurysm? I walked every inch of the field he was in no blood anywhere. It wasn't a kick to the head. If anyone has any thoughts let me know. Or if anyone has had this happen to them. |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| I am so sorry, how terrible for you. I know of several horses that have died from an aneurism or a heart attack, one was during a run. Hugs and prayers |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Just wanted to offer my condolences and prayers. At least he went fast. My SIL just had one drop dead last week. I'm so sorry. |
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I just read the headlines
Posts: 4483
| Bless your heart! I am sorry that this happened to you and your horse. I have heard of this but never experienced it. |
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 Total Germophobe
Posts: 6443
Location: Montana | I'm sorry to hear that. My mom, when she was a littl girl (about 50-55 years ago) they had a horse do that, but no cause or explanation. They thought maybe he got into something poisonous, but they really didn't know as it was so quick. Sorry for your loss. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Oh my goodness how awful!! The only thing I could think of was a kick to the head... If it was a brain anurism(Sp?) I would think he would have blood coming out of his eyes and ears and nose...?... So very sorry.
You can always take him to a vet for an autospy.....
How sad.... |
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 Good Grief!
Posts: 6343
Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | So sorry...id say heart attack or stroke. .it happens....m |
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Posts: 2457
| So sorry :( Wish I had answers for you.
You might be able to have a local vet do an autopsy for you .... just to have some closure. |
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 Works Hard For The Money
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Location: Memphis, TN | Could be have reared up and hit something in the shed? I thought my mare was going to die in front of me one day. My horses were up under a carport we have in front of our shop. One of my geldings tried to kick at her and she reared up while spinning around to try to get away from him. She hit her head on the carport hard enough to scrape skin off. She walked right outside the carport with her nose to the ground and started shaking her head and yawning. She started walking circles with her nose down like she was going to lay down. I was in a panic thinking I was watching her die. There wasn't anything I could do but sit and wait. She never laid down but shook her head for several minutes. I gave her bute, threw my PHT halter on her, and kept her in the round pen for a few hours so she could rest and I could keep an eye on her. Needless to say she rung her clock pretty hard. We keep the carport blocked off now. With the gash and popped area it sounds like he hit something in the wrong spot unfortunately. |
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Veteran
Posts: 285
| I'm sorry. Prayers to you. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1074
| I'm so sorry for your loss. That's horrible. I've heard of horses having aneurisms and just dropping dead. |
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Posts: 851
Location: West Texas | We had a boarding horse die last week, standing up. We had an autopsy and it was a heart attack. I would bet that is what you had happen. Sorry for your loss. |
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Location: South Dakota | I am so sorry for your loss of a good horse and friend...big hugs. It just sucks when these kind of things happen  |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Wow that is so sad, sorry that this happen |
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Posts: 28
| I am so sad for you, what a horrible thing to happen :(
Hugs for you! |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | I'm so very sorry for your loss. |
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  Neat Freak
Posts: 11216
Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I would imagine he hit his head on something. I had a stud prospect that I bought and got home late Sunday night with him. Monday morning early my husband went out and fed him and we looked out the window a little later to find him laying dead next to the fence. He had rolled and when he flipped his head side to side he smacked it on the pipe post. Killed him instantly. A vet came out for insurance reasons and proved it, he had hemoraged right behind the ears where he hit his head. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | How devastating!! :(. I'm so sorry. Prayers!!! |
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 Roan On The Range
Posts: 7889
Location: Stephenville, TX | I'm so sorry! It can happen to perfectly healthy horses with no warning.
This happened to one of my horses while I was riding her. Took her down to a walk after loping some circles, she staggered a little, so I hopped off her to check her and she seized up and hit the ground. She was dead within a few minutes. There was absolutely nothing I could do. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I am so sorry for your loss. |
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