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I was having a good day today. Woke up early got everything done early, came inside to relax and check my email. Then I got this email:
"As many of you may already know, Silver Sweet aka "Sylvia", Alise Dykstra's pony died unexpectedly on Monday evening. Alise was leading Sylvia to the barn to ride when she began shaking her head, dropped to the ground and died. They were to leave today for Florida for the Turkey Curcuit. They are having Sylvia posted today.
As all of us pony lovers know, this is a very sad time for the Dykstra family. Alise achieved so much success with Sylvia. They should hold the title of #1 in the nation for Jr. Western and Jr. English pony and most likely #2 in Western Pleasure ridden by a girl and English Pleasure ridden by a girl."
I didn't even know... I had just talked to Alise on Sunday evening and wished her good luck at Turkey Circuit. I feel horrible for her. It's hard to loose a pet, but for it to happens suddenly right there infront of you, it's heart breaking. Alise had said to me earlier this summer " I really feel like I've found MY horse Heather, I don't ever want to sell or get rid of her."
I've never told alot of people about this but about 10 years back something of this sort happened to me. It was when my family just started showing horses. My sister had Mokey, our little white pony, and I had Peanuts, my mom's old Appy show horse who was enormous. I came home from school one day and my sister and I went out to the field to give both our horses some treats, but the horses were missing. 2 seconds later Mokey came running around the corner of the barn terrified and ran into the shed. Then came Peanuts, storming after Mokey with crazyness. After seeing my sister and I she took off after us, chasing us crazily around the yard. My sister got into the house and called my mom and I was stuck hiding behind the lawn mower. At that moment when Peanuts had me pinned between the house and the lawn mower, I realized what was going on. She could have killed me if she had wanted, but she didn't, she just stood there pawing and snorting at me, I could see in her eyes that she was in so much pain, and just wanted me to help her terribly. but there was nothing i could do to help her, and it killed me.
after everything got situated out the vet had to come, and after some inspection Peanuts was put to sleep. the vet hospital forced us to give up her body for internal inspection. It had to be the hardest thing I've ever had to go through with my pets, and for those of you who know me well you know i'm an animal lover extreme.
Now I know that Peanuts didn't die right there infront of me really, but the look in her eyes, i could just feel her dying. My heart goes out to Alise right now. I know she won't ever read this but I still feel horrible and want to get it out.
"As many of you may already know, Silver Sweet aka "Sylvia", Alise Dykstra's pony died unexpectedly on Monday evening. Alise was leading Sylvia to the barn to ride when she began shaking her head, dropped to the ground and died. They were to leave today for Florida for the Turkey Curcuit. They are having Sylvia posted today.
As all of us pony lovers know, this is a very sad time for the Dykstra family. Alise achieved so much success with Sylvia. They should hold the title of #1 in the nation for Jr. Western and Jr. English pony and most likely #2 in Western Pleasure ridden by a girl and English Pleasure ridden by a girl."
I didn't even know... I had just talked to Alise on Sunday evening and wished her good luck at Turkey Circuit. I feel horrible for her. It's hard to loose a pet, but for it to happens suddenly right there infront of you, it's heart breaking. Alise had said to me earlier this summer " I really feel like I've found MY horse Heather, I don't ever want to sell or get rid of her."
I've never told alot of people about this but about 10 years back something of this sort happened to me. It was when my family just started showing horses. My sister had Mokey, our little white pony, and I had Peanuts, my mom's old Appy show horse who was enormous. I came home from school one day and my sister and I went out to the field to give both our horses some treats, but the horses were missing. 2 seconds later Mokey came running around the corner of the barn terrified and ran into the shed. Then came Peanuts, storming after Mokey with crazyness. After seeing my sister and I she took off after us, chasing us crazily around the yard. My sister got into the house and called my mom and I was stuck hiding behind the lawn mower. At that moment when Peanuts had me pinned between the house and the lawn mower, I realized what was going on. She could have killed me if she had wanted, but she didn't, she just stood there pawing and snorting at me, I could see in her eyes that she was in so much pain, and just wanted me to help her terribly. but there was nothing i could do to help her, and it killed me.
after everything got situated out the vet had to come, and after some inspection Peanuts was put to sleep. the vet hospital forced us to give up her body for internal inspection. It had to be the hardest thing I've ever had to go through with my pets, and for those of you who know me well you know i'm an animal lover extreme.
Now I know that Peanuts didn't die right there infront of me really, but the look in her eyes, i could just feel her dying. My heart goes out to Alise right now. I know she won't ever read this but I still feel horrible and want to get it out.