horsehug
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Some of you already know, but instead of having to send way too many individual messages I thought I'd let you all know at once that I lost my Rambo yesterday.
He had seemed to be in excellent health all this winter which made me so happy.
But he had to be put down last night.
All day he would not eat and acted just slightly colicky. I finally decided to take him to the vet last evening and he did blood work and found out he was extremely dehydrated and on top of that his kidney values were terrible. His kidneys were failing horribly. I had to let him put him down or watch him die over the next few hours or days.
He was 22 years old in March and has been the personality that I wished all my horses were all these years. He has truly been a one in a million little horse. I am so glad I have several of his daughters and his grandson Lil Chap of Bar Bar E to carry on....... as their dispositions are very similar to Rambo. I need to train Lil Chap to drive. Over the years Rambo and I went so many places together, just him and me and his cart. His specialty was obstacle driving. He had the perfect personality for it. We also visited the nursing home, the school, the hospital, and he did birthday parties and weddings and many parades. And he sired many beautiful foals. I got Rambo when he was 4 months old in 1988 and thus started Hilliard Horses to Hug. I always felt Rambo and I were a team.
And I will sure miss him.
For me this is the end of an era.
Susan O.
He had seemed to be in excellent health all this winter which made me so happy.
But he had to be put down last night.
All day he would not eat and acted just slightly colicky. I finally decided to take him to the vet last evening and he did blood work and found out he was extremely dehydrated and on top of that his kidney values were terrible. His kidneys were failing horribly. I had to let him put him down or watch him die over the next few hours or days.
He was 22 years old in March and has been the personality that I wished all my horses were all these years. He has truly been a one in a million little horse. I am so glad I have several of his daughters and his grandson Lil Chap of Bar Bar E to carry on....... as their dispositions are very similar to Rambo. I need to train Lil Chap to drive. Over the years Rambo and I went so many places together, just him and me and his cart. His specialty was obstacle driving. He had the perfect personality for it. We also visited the nursing home, the school, the hospital, and he did birthday parties and weddings and many parades. And he sired many beautiful foals. I got Rambo when he was 4 months old in 1988 and thus started Hilliard Horses to Hug. I always felt Rambo and I were a team.
And I will sure miss him.
For me this is the end of an era.
Susan O.
