horses and heartbreak

[wldhrsjen3]

So, a week ago Trinity came to the gate with a huge, gaping wound just above her forearm, where her leg meets her chest. She had a smaller laceration on her leg and a scrape along her cannon bone. The only thing I could figure was that she must have impaled herself on a steel T-post, and based on the shape of the main wound, the vet concurs

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[spirithorse21]

Samwise had stripes where his ribs were when he was a baby. My dad would always come home and tell me he could see sam's ribs fro the road and why don't I feed that horse? Lol!

I hope teeny heals quickly. I am so sorry this happened. :(

[green_knight]

I hope that she heals quickly.

It's damn hard to live with the fact that sometimes horses *will* injure themselves. What made it easier for me to live with that fact was that the alternative is worse - you keep a horse on their own in a small groomed paddock or stall, and they won't acquire certain injuries... but they're more likely to injure themselves in different way; you're always making trade-offs in one way or another, and I'd rather a horse was living out in a herd.

[heleninwales]

I hope the wound heals without any complications. However careful we are, animals sometimes manage to hurt themselves to totally unexpected ways.

[neva_butterfly]

I hope she heals up soon. Poor sweet baby.

[puddleshark]

Poor girl! I hope she heals quickly. Accident aside, she sounds remarkably level-headed for a youngster.

And the vet's right - no matter how careful we are, horses do this sometimes...