On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:29:01 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

On 16 Mar 2021 at 14:05:46 GMT, T i m wrote:

That's not completely true, I always hoped it ended up without any
horse fatalities or injuries (typically leading to their slaughter,

AFAIK, once a horse is injured there's not much you can do about it;
they don't make good patients. Trting to could be considered more cruel
than euthanising it. Cost doesn't come into it.

Anyone here with direct experience of this?

As an old MRCVS, with a dread of dobbins :-)

Horses don't do lying down well at all, muscle damage results in sort
order = pain & organ failure = death

They 'can' be treated but they need to be suspended in slings (don't so
lying down - see) and then usually they can't feed normally (can't walk
about - see) so now you've got two problems, oh and then pressure sores
from the slings and now you have three problems, they are flighty beasts
at the best of times and so now you (may) have four problems, not moving
around is likely to give increased risk of colic, and now you have five
problems - did I mention lying down ain't good for them - so consider a
long orthopaedic operation and risk the of anaesthesia (they also have a
habit of deciding to not breathe whilst 'under') and that was only
problems 1a & 1b ...

So on the grounds of humanity (& good welfare) euthanasia is usually the
best option - for dobbin!

Avpx

(who is aware that things have moved on since he had to deal with such
stuff but dobbin is still dobbin)

p.s. I know none of the above is likely to change any 'minds' but hey ...

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