tallyho8
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Yesterday I had to put down my favorite horse of all times, Mitey (Mighty) Golden Tally that I had her whole life, 27 years. It was the hardest thing that I have ever done.
We have showed in so many horse shows, ridden in many team pennings, Mardi Gras parades, trail rides and had so many experiences together. We slept by each other for 20 weeks while riding in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas, crossed many rivers together, and rode trails on edges of cliffs with complete trust in each other.
One of the main stories I like to tell about her to show how disciplined she was: While I was out of town my neighbor phoned me to tell me that Tally was in the front yard because I had left a gate open. She had never been around a horse before. I told her to just slowly walk up to Tally, place her hand on her nose and then walk back to the barn and close the gate, Tally would walk right with her. She could not believe how well the horse followed her back.
Her ordeal started last week. She fell down one day and we had a hard time getting her up. We called a vet who came the next day and did tests. The next few days she fell down more and more and was down longer each time and harder to get up. Finally she could not stand even after we got her up. We knew it was over. Her test revealed she had EPM (possum disease) and 2 vets said it was the worst case they had ever seen and extremely fast acting. After 5 days of treatments everyone agreed there was no hope and we could not let her suffer any more.
Neither my wife or I could sleep last night and we went through a whole box of Kleenex together but at least we have loads of great memories of the times we shared.
RIP Tally.
We have showed in so many horse shows, ridden in many team pennings, Mardi Gras parades, trail rides and had so many experiences together. We slept by each other for 20 weeks while riding in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas, crossed many rivers together, and rode trails on edges of cliffs with complete trust in each other.
One of the main stories I like to tell about her to show how disciplined she was: While I was out of town my neighbor phoned me to tell me that Tally was in the front yard because I had left a gate open. She had never been around a horse before. I told her to just slowly walk up to Tally, place her hand on her nose and then walk back to the barn and close the gate, Tally would walk right with her. She could not believe how well the horse followed her back.
Her ordeal started last week. She fell down one day and we had a hard time getting her up. We called a vet who came the next day and did tests. The next few days she fell down more and more and was down longer each time and harder to get up. Finally she could not stand even after we got her up. We knew it was over. Her test revealed she had EPM (possum disease) and 2 vets said it was the worst case they had ever seen and extremely fast acting. After 5 days of treatments everyone agreed there was no hope and we could not let her suffer any more.
Neither my wife or I could sleep last night and we went through a whole box of Kleenex together but at least we have loads of great memories of the times we shared.
RIP Tally.
