This message is from: "Debby" <miss.am...@earthlink.net> One of the hardest things to do, putting a pet down. Runs pretty close to how we feel about our children. I've been dealing with a pony that had many issues, but I'm not ready to let him go. He isn't older, just 12yrs., and he still wants his dinner. He has good days, bad days. On the bad days, when I wonder if its time, then he gives me a good day. He isn't down in his stall not able to get up, so I don't have that to help me make the decision. Sometimes I think if I'd done this different, or that different. Isn't that always the way? As long as I can control his discomfort, thats whats important. I have to say I didn't think Laura was stirring a pot or pointing fingers. I don't eat meat. Haven't for over ten years solid, off and on for about twenty years. Never was a big meat eater even as a child, most likely came from too many kids at the table and potatoes were cheaper. Its a personal thing with me, I just don't like the way they are treated from the chicken farms to the feedlots to the slaughtering. I do eat a bit of cheese some, and wish I could get myself away from that. I did when Iived closer to the dairy farms that were my neighbors, couldn't stand the babies being taken from moms and put in these little pens. I'd seen some terrible misstreatment of animals, have stopped and confronted some people, worried my husband sometimes. I remember stopping on the highway a few years ago, a deer had been hit but seemed ok. A couple of guys had stopped and gotten it off of the highway, I pulled over to see if they needed me to call someone. They pulled the deer down, it got up and started to leave, they grabbed it and pulled it down and stabbed it to death. I tried calling the sheriffs dept., but had no signal, was out in the boonies (that was a time my husband worried for me) I screamed at them, murderers...they did give me a look that worried me enough to make me leave, and I did call the sheriffs dept., but nothing came of it. They claimed it was "gonna die anyway". I never knew until that day what a deer sounds like when its being stabbed. I didn't sleep for awhile after that. Anyway, things like that, thats why I don't eat meat. Its a personal thing. My sister won't eat deer as they have beautiful eyes...but I look into the eyes of the calves next door, and I think they have beautiful eyes too. I think if you just take the time and look at an animal or a bird, and just watch them, how they live. I have a family of crows that have lived with me for the last two years, started out as two and they added the three last year, and they stay. I LOVE birds. Anyway, I do love my horses, I don't put them above other animals, I think that they are all pretty equal in Gods eyes. Just I have my horses...and cats. Love my cats too, and they stay inside so I can enjoy my birds. Take care. Debby in Tx
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