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I understand better now. Your post gave the impression that you were just sending her to an ordinary kill buyer, with all the misery, terror, and pain that represents. It’s quite different if your mare was simply shot. Sometimes there is nothing to be done.

I do accept the need for horse slaughter, as sad as that is. Poor animals.

I've been to enough small town horse auctions to know exactly of which you speak.

They (the glue men, the dog food men, etc) had their long trailer at every one of them and your heart broke when they picked up (people's former pets, in the main) the unwanted and loaded them with no care for the animals at all.

Sorry to have made you sick for a bit with my tale.

Through my grandaughter, I just talked them into doing the same act of kindness to a retired rodeo horse (they estimated his age at close to 40) which my grandaughter was using for gymkhana. The old man was in an old age lean, with the flesh melting away all over from his spine to his head.

All I could picture was that wonderful old mustang dropping dead with her on him. He did love it though, so he lived a great life for a lot of people.