"My horse died"

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Read this and weep.

"My horse died"

"Demeber 22, 2008 I bought my first horse. She was a 4 yr old QH mare. When I bought her she wasn't broke to ride and she had no muscle tone whatsoever. So after 7 months of being with her and 3 months of riding her I broke her to w/t/c, woah, and back. She was doing great. But yesterday went terrible! I worked her a little in the round pen and then I tied her head around slightly. I was taught this when training them. My old trainer used to leave them like that all day long. They would used leave and go do whatever they wanted to do and then come back and ride them. Well when I tied my horse around I was feeling really dizzy and dehydrated so I went to my house to get some water. My house is 5 mins away. So I drove to my house really quick got my water and went back. Well when I walked out to the round pen I saw my horse laying down. Most of the horses that would get tied around by my previous trainer would sometime or another lay down and then get back up. When I walked out to my horse she wasn't moving and she wasn't breathing. I started to panic and I ran to her. When I got there she was dead. She had blood in her ears and it had filled her ears completely. I immediately pulled her tack off and fell to the ground crying. I feel absolutely miserable. I didn't leave her for long. I barely had her tied around. My trainer used to tie them WAY tighter and nothing ever happened. But one time I do it and my horse dies. NEVER AGAIN!!! Everyone said that she had an underlying issue and they think it might have been a heart attack or something must have burst in her brain. There was nothing I could do to stop it and it would have happened sooner or later. She was fine one minute and gone the next. I just feel like I killed her. I miss her so much and I can't bring her back! I feel like it's all my fault. I hope everyone can forgive me. I'm so scared to get another horse. I'm afraid it's going to die on me. Please someone yell at me or knock some sense into me. I don't know what to do anymore. Thanks everyone for enduring that. Cookies to all."

Madi back in: Does anyone find that weird? Let's all tie our horses up in heat that make us light heated and dizzy, leave them, drive away. This person should feel bad. They should NEVER buy another horse. Oh and I fail to see how a heart attack causes bleeding from the brain. Stupid.

Lucy Updates!

Well, I thought that I hadn't really mentioned Lucy and our little surprise so I thought I'd update you on her. She is most definitely pregnant! We are estimating she is due around the end of August. She is now yarded and has taken that very well, we have had no suicide attempts yet, which I'm very proud of. She has become very temperamental and is becoming increasingly difficult for everyone else to handle although she still tolerates me and seems happy to see me when I go up there to feed her and unrug-rerug her. She is biting at her belly and kicking at it more and more but I am desperately hoping that she can hold off until the end of August.

She has started to develop colostrum and has started to develop pockets. Before we yarded her, I had noticed that the herd had started hassling her and that she was more stand-offish with the herd, preferring to stand by herself and she was lying down more and more.

I have some photos that I will upload very shortly.

Movie Review; Hancock starring Will Smith

Due to a request from a very dear friend, I am reviewing the movie 'Hancock' starring Will smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman.

As I lined up in the cinema for my tickets, I had a very cynical feeling towards Hancock. After seeing Ironman and falling so in love with that superhero movie, I doubted Hancock could anyway match that. We found our seats and got comfortable with out chips and malteasers and waited. The cinema filled rapidly with people of all ages and my cynicism started to disappear, if this many people had faith in Will Smith and his ability to play a down and out superhero, perhaps I should too.

It started off slow, with me thinking perhaps I was right, the movie was indeed going to be boring and sterotypical but that soon changed. Will Smith threw himself into this role, making up for my disappointment with his failing movie career of late. The writers blew me away with witty one liners and situations that go from bad to worse for the pigheaded yet lovable Hancock.

It wasn't until half way through the movie that I remembered that I suppose to be cynical and look for the faults, but once more the writers and directors distracted me with a shock for our hero. He had lived for decades thinking he was the only one of his kind here, on Earth. He was thrown into turmoil after receiving a shock revolation. Is he really alone?

Towards the end of the movie, I could feel the whole cinema holding a collective breath as Hancock had to make a decision that would effect his life forever and possibly end another Hancock favorite. During this last suspenseful fifteen minutes, I could have possibly broke several of Adam's fingers, clinging so hard as I watched and waited for him to make the ultimate sacrifice.

All in all, this movie was so much more then I had thought it would be. I have rated it: 4.5 stars.

I would recommend this movie for anyone who loves Ironman.