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| I do not blame the trainer in any way. I realize that sometimes $#!t happens, and from the moment he felt he was off, he called me and let me know. He also spoke with the vet several times and updated me a couple of times a day. We made the decisions together based on the vets recommendations. I had told him from the get go to do whatever he needed to do. He had great communication with me, and when he got really sick, went above and beyond- pulling an all nighter trying to drive him to save him and spending the night in his truck to be there with my horse. I feel terrible that he had to go through that and I know he felt awful. He did exactly what I would have done if I could have been there. There are no hard feelings toward him. In fact, I can't thank him enough. It must have been terrible.
My plan and God's plan were just different. I am going to miss him terribly- he was such a special horse with a true gift. It had been my dream to futurity, and I finally had a colt that I raised and got to this point where we could enter him. He went to the trainer for the winter so we could keep him running and ready for the year. | |
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| Well it is a good thing that you trust the trainer....wasn't sure if it was a situation where your horse was not as high a priority to him/her as it was to you.
Some one commented about heart rate and I want to point out that although it is a common indicator of pain it is not always a definite one. The mare that had 30 feet (oops, I just realized I had wrote 50.....it was a long time ago and I am getting old...the memory is a steel trap built from a sieve these days), her heart rate NEVER went above 44 BPM, not here when she was running and then stopping to throw herself violently to the ground to thrash, jump up run again only to repeat the process.
I know that you are looking for answers, for what you could have done differently but the truth is, you could have done everything right and still ended with the same results. To your question about the first vet I say IMHO yes, he waited too long to refer somewhere for surgery but that was HIS/HER opinion, we want them to be Gods in a way, but they are not, some just barely graduated from vet school rather than Magna Cum Laude, same goes for doctors... Life teaches us that sometimes we need to listen to our gut, it's just that the learning curve sucks.
Again so sorry for your loss, nothing is going to make it better just don't beat yourself up forever, you did the best with the information you had at the time.
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