I know this is hindsight, and makes it easier.
But when the horse developed the laminitis they did decide to put him down. The owners, jockey, everyone came to say good bye. Then they changed their mind because Barbaro himself seemed so well. He was alert, and happy at that time. But he went downhill after that. Yes he had good days, but from the sounds of it, there were a lot of bad ones too. I didn’t realize how many times they had to do surgery on him. The vet himself said, every time we fixed one thing something else went wrong, and we had to fix that. Every day it was something.
It’s hindsight I know, but I would have nightmares knowing I could have put the horse down when he was happy, rather then have kept him going knowing the chances were poor, then still have to put him down but when he had gotten so miserable. That would be hard to live with.
Becky
I wish this forum had an edit button like the horse forum:)
One more thing and I’ll let it go.
When and if they can cure severe laminitis in horse that just develop it, then I’d say it would be OK to try to fix a catastrophic injury such as this. But till then, they need to be put down immediately and not used as guinea pigs. They’ve been hurt enough.
Becky
Remember when that girl, Lemon drop(?) was here and so upset. I was thinking at that time, ok, let him go.