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Location: Texas | It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the way horses panic.. That must be so awful to get scared and panicky to the point where you rip your own foot/leg off. Poor horse. And prayers for the sweet girl that lost her horse |
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| i just hope you put her down quickly after the injury. i can't even imagine the pain she must have been in. |
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Location: Phoenix | That is so awful. Omgosh so sorry for all parties involved. :( |
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  Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | scared of sharks - 2015-12-22 10:43 PM i just hope you put her down quickly after the injury. i can't even imagine the pain she must have been in. This was not my horse, but yes, the vet was called immediately when I got there and she was put down quickly. The lady that was supposed to be caring for her had been out there for three hours and didn't pay enough attention to see the mare was in trouble. This same lady took pictures of my horse with his blanket wrapped around his throat, and left him like that for 8 hours while i was at work. She told me she didn't have time to pull the blanket off over his head. It would have taken her all of 10 seconds.
Edited by acheela 2015-12-23 12:04 AM
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| The most common thing I have seen is where there are no 4x8 sheets of plywood kick boards on the interior walls of stalls of metal buildings.
Horses can kick, paw or rollover against the wall and jam a foot/hoof/half a leg between two sheets of metal siding and just shuck the muscle and hoof off by jerking the leg back thru the overlayed metal sheets ...
My advice to everyone building a barn or run in shed to use common sense and have the bottom runner and the first sidewall runner to be 4ft apart. This makes it so easy to come in and screw the 4x8 sheets of 3/4 inch plywood down the walls to protect a horse from the above.
Whether it be metal or wood runners use deck screws which are weather proof and will not work out to slash your horses when they find a nail head to rub on .. Hammering is work where screwing the kick boards on is fun ...
Many years ago I lost a colt by Mr Diamond Dude out of a Peppy San mare to a 30 ft section of the bottom wire that was grown into trees of an old old fence line we had missed. Colt evidently came running thru the woods off the horse trail and slashed off his hoof and ankle. It took me a week to find the 30 ft wire hidden by leaves ... it almost tripped me ... otherwise I would never have found it.
As the old saying goes .. If a horse can find a way to hurt itself .... they will. Especially if they are your pride and joy.
I am amazed at no injuries to junkyard horses with all the old cars, trucks farm equipment strewn around. I pointed to a weanling at a friends place that was tight wire walking the frame over a set of 16 ft disks ... his reply ... Aww she does that all the time ... if it had been mine -------- you know the rest of that statement ... lol ..
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Miracle in the Making
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| i am not goning to look at the pictures thanks for the warning but why would you post pictures? how
it seems to me people don.t use commom sense |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I thought the pictures are interesting and a good reminder to keep horse areas as safe as possible. That being said, accidents can still happen. I am so sorry for their loss. I'm sure the owner is so broken hearted. |
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Location: Kansas | HOLY EFF!!!! There goes my breakfast.
what a terrible terrible thing, praying for the girl and her family
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I also found them interesting. But not only that, we all need to know the dangers lurking in a seemingly safe place. Bad things happen, and we need to know what needs done in a state of emergency and panic. I think this is an awful lesson learned. But, as per the OP, my horse would no longer be at a barn that the owner is so careless. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | ~BINGO~ - 2015-12-22 3:07 PM
Call me morbid, but I'd be interested in seeing it. I've never heard of anything like that. Sending prayers for the little girl.
I'm the same way.... |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | QH<3er - 2015-12-23 8:47 AM
~BINGO~ - 2015-12-22 3:07 PM
Call me morbid, but I'd be interested in seeing it. I've never heard of anything like that. Sending prayers for the little girl.
I'm the same way....
Lol! I grew up being fascinated with ER and Crime scene investigative stuff. I don't get squeamish easily. However, I'm sure it'd be a different story if it was my own horse. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | vjls - 2015-12-23 8:11 AM i am not goning to look at the pictures thanks for the warning but why would you post pictures? how
it seems to me people don.t use commom sense
Ditto to what was said here^^^ I could never look at these pictures. I have seen my fair share of accidents being a horse owner..  |
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Location: KS | https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2d/86/c1/2d86c191c8c4c4663...
Could this have been possible? |
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Location: North Dakota | vjls - 2015-12-23 8:11 AM i am not goning to look at the pictures thanks for the warning but why would you post pictures? how
it seems to me people don.t use commom sense
I guess if you have no interest in seeing the pictures, then don't read the post? That would be common sense to me.
Yes this is a tragic and absolutely horrific injury and I feel so badly for the owners; but why is this graphic picture any different than other graphic injuries that are posted and discussed?
Some of us have interests, medically. I am amazed at how an injury liike this could even occur. The pictures, although horrific, are fasinating to me.
If you don't share an interest, that's completely fine, of course. Not everyone will. But I don't really think it's necessary to make the rest of us feel like "bad people" for wanting to see the pictures, or to make the OP feel bad for posting them.
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Location: Phoenix | ~BINGO~ - 2015-12-23 6:31 AM
I also found them interesting. But not only that, we all need to know the dangers lurking in a seemingly safe place. Bad things happen, and we need to know what needs done in a state of emergency and panic. I think this is an awful lesson learned. But, as per the OP, my horse would no longer be at a barn that the owner is so careless.
Um yes to the barn owner statement!! |
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Location: Arkansas | So so sorry this happened. Prayers for the little girl |
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | Thank you guys for the prayers. I know they help. It was just such a freak thing. This poor horse was in what would be considered a VERY safe stall. Everything had to have happened just right. The chances are astronomical something like this would have happened. Like another poster said, bad things can happen under the best of circumstances.
The he person who was doing nothing to help was NOT the barn owner, but a renter who was in charge of seeing to this mare. I would not let her take care of anything alive, she has no sense. |
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | I don't think the owners of the horse would have had the funds to do this, plus the mare was VERY shocky, and was close to death without putting her down. She had been hung up for quite awhile.
Edited by acheela 2015-12-23 6:45 PM
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | vjls - 2015-12-23 8:11 AM i am not goning to look at the pictures thanks for the warning but why would you post pictures? how
it seems to me people don.t use commom sense
I posted pictures for several reasons.
People were asking to see to see them
as a reminder to make sure your horse is in the safest environment possible
freak things can happen under the best of circumstances
dont hire an idiot to take care of your horse that freaks and freezes under an emergency situation
there was a warning on the title about the pictures, so maybe you should go hide your head in the sand and pretend nothing like this ever happens. |
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| acheela - 2015-12-23 6:49 PM
vjls - 2015-12-23 8:11 AM i am not goning to look at the pictures thanks for the warning but why would you post pictures? how
it seems to me people don.t use commom sense
I posted pictures for several reasons.
People were asking to see to see them
as a reminder to make sure your horse is in the safest environment possible
freak things can happen under the best of circumstances
dont hire an idiot to take care of your horse that freaks and freezes under an emergency situation
there was a warning on the title about the pictures, so maybe you should go hide your head in the sand and pretend nothing like this ever happens.
Thank you for posting - it is really a great reminder. Very sorry for the horse but for those of us more medically inclined like me, I found the pictures very interesting. Merry Christmas! |
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