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Diamond_Jubilee


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What would you do?
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Im curious on what other people would do in this situation:
You had a young horse (yearling or two year old) and he/she got injured. They were bought to be a dressage horse and your plan was to train the animal, show it for a year or two and then sell it. The injury was pretty severe and they have to go for surgery with a 50/50 chance of making a full recovery, the animal was in a lot of pain so they either had to have the surgery or be put down. The surgery was very expensive (of course!) with not the greatest chances of the animal every being able to ridden again....it could just end up being a pasture buddy. Would you take the chance of doing the expensive surgery or put the animal down?
I know what I would do, I'm just curious on what others would do...

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Depends on if you have insurance, if the horse is worth it to keep for breeding and the expense of the surgery is worth it or would purchase another horse.

I am a bit pragmatic about this. We had this happen to us - just bought the filly - a beautiful hanoverian - shattered her knee and she was insured. Basically came down to equal costs of the surgery and a lame horse for just breeding or the money to buy a new horse.

She was only a year and her quality of life would have been awful. She was in so much pain - we put her down and didn't really hesitate in the decision but insurance had to approve the decision.

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Sorry, meant to add - very sorry for your situation - best of luck

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Diamond_Jubilee


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I would not regret your decision Prospect. I would have done the same thing...
A situation close to this has happened to a friends horse (very good outcome) but it really got me thinking about if it happened to one of my animals.....

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I'm lucky, our horses are our pets, and only quality of life really matters. So, I'd likely do the surgery and hang onto the horse. In situations where horses are livestock and/or livelihood, it's often a different story.

Our young mare colicked, went laminitic and foundered, with 23 degrees rotation in the end. She was game to keep going, so we kept her alive. She's now presented us with a gorgeous little boy. However, the one coffin bone has rotated again, it's nearly vertical. We will not do surgery. When she says it's time to go, we'll let her go. Oddly enough, she's sound with her Soft-Ride boots on. So, we'll let her tell us what's going to go on.

Bloody fragile for such large creatures!

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