Can be for the best...but it is almost always painful. Hard things can be the right things...but they still hurt.
Liz had to put her old gelding down yesterday, the right thing to do, the right time to do it, but so hard for her. It hurt just to know how sad she was....is....
I didn't want to watch or know about the taking off of the halter and the hurtful, sad, goodbyes, but it was all right there.
Poor Liz, who loved him.
Poor Jack who is devastated without his buddy.
Poor sad, old horse.
RIP Tyler. You were a beautiful boy.
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Always a tough decision and loss. Surely Tyler is now romping in some verdant pasture free from aches and pains and illnesses that were taking their toll here on Earth.
Oh dear. Very sad to say goodbye to dear animal friends. My heart goes out to Liz.
So sorry, Liz. We don't know if Sugar (our dog) will last the winter, so we might be facing the same decision soon. I'm not looking forward to it.
About all we can do is know that we did our best for them while they were here.
{{{{{{Liz}}}}}
Dang it. I am so sorry, Liz. What you did was definitely the right thing to do, it does not make it any easier.
I knew I'd seen an appropriate poem and Google was good to me:
Where to Bury a Horse
If you bury him in this spot,
the secret of which you must already have,
he will come when you call-
come to you over the far, dim pastures of death,
And down the remembered paths to your side again
And though you ride other living horses through life,
They shall not shy at him or resent him coming,
For he is yours and he belongs there.
People may scoff at you,
Who see no lightest blade of grass bent
By his footfall,
Who hear no nicker pitched too fine for insensitive ears
People who may never really love a horse;
smile at them, then
For you shall know something that is hidden from them,
and which is well worth knowing:
The one place to bury a horse is in the heart of his mistress.
-Author unknown
Jeffro, ya' got me all choked up. What a great poem.
i'm sorry. it's so hard to say goodbye.
and jeffro, that was beautiful and now i'm crying too.
Jeffro - ditto.
Even though we know it's the right and kind thing to do, it takes courage to make the decision.
Joated, I hope he is. His cancer was making him very ill...
WW, I feel bad for her too. She didn't have him a long time, but she really loved him.
aka, it is SO hard! I am down to my last border collie and his is almost twelve. Still doing okay now that he is getting over the Lyme but..
Jeffro, that is incredibly beautiful. Made us both cry. Thank you so much for taking time to find and share it.
Jean and Ericka, we both cried too..so beautiful and so true. My old Magnum has been gone for years, but I can trace every cowlick and cannon bone in my mind.
NW, I barely spent any time with him because he just didn;t like me much, but I miss him...his presence in the barn..
I'm so sorry. It's very, very hard to lose our furry and feathered friends. At least we have them in our lives and us in theirs...that thought helps me.
Linda
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i can hardly read these lines . . .
It resonates with too many of our own heart-wrenching goodbyes.
Yes, our hearts go out to Liz.
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