When you own and love animals there is so much pleasure but saying goodbye and not being to save them is the ultimate opposite ...that pain makes you wonder why you ever opened your heart in the first place... yesterday morning my hubby went to the barn as he does every morning to feed and clean the barn for our 6 horses... there was Legacy down in her stall.. Leggs her nickname because she grew taller then any other horse in NY was cast in her stall..cast means that her legs were against the wall and she could not throw her legs out to get up.. i called the vet and some friends are they were here in what seemed like an eternity.. but was really about 20 mins.. they went to work taking down the stall ..every nail and screw was taken out completly taking the wall down piece by piece and the vet checked her vitals ..she layed there all 2000 pounds of her ...head held high knowing we were all trying to save her.. a horse cannot be down long because there organs start to shut down.. she could have been down many hours in this trapped position...they got the wall down and dragged her into the middle isle of the barn .. the vet gave her some sedative to help her relax and told us we have to try and get her up..we begged and cried and screamed and nodded and whipped and she tried but all of legs were going through electric shock jolts because the circulation had stopped.. the only way would have a chance is with a crane to hoist her..so later we had to call the vet again and he put her to sleep.. the friends came back and brought a sled made for rescue of large horses and pulled her out of the barn onto a knoll where she will be buried..and then all of them put the barn back together even though we told them it was not important ...they said it was not like this when we got here and they fixed it like it was new again.. i lost my beautiful horse in a flash but i also am so thankful for having friends like this... we could not have done it with out them and i quess what i am trying to say is ... if you have a friend that you love don't take them for granted ..they are our true gift in time of need... my heart is breaking for my Leggs but i also know how blessed i am ... you will be so missed my beautiful Legacy but you showed me that the world is a good place if you help each other..
