Scenerio:
If you had an animal born that wasn't responding as it typically should after birth, what would you do?
Would you -
A. Do everything in your power to save it, even though it may be for not?
B. Do nothing and let "nature" takes it's course?
C. Call the vet and pray the vet will come to the rescue?
Now let's complicate the scenerio slightly. What if you call the vet and the vet couldn't or wouldn't come out to help? Then what would you do?
Now let's complicate the scenerio a little further. What if you did not have the means to transport said animal to the vet for care at his office? Then what would you do?
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C and A
then cry.
I feel bad about all this Leigh, I don't know what to say really but it does matter how you feel. hugs to you and Amy.
Thank you Belinda,
I don't think it's really hit Amy just yet. Although she did have to tell Soph about it all, I'm sure that really drove it all home a little more then she would have liked. The whole thing sucks, nature or not, it's frustrating to loose one that is so expected and waited upon. I know that everyone goes through it at one point or another, but it doesn't make it any less painful when something tragic happens.
Oh and for the record, I too would do both A and C.
Thank you again,
Leigh
I remember the first one I lost. It's never easy. Hopefully the next one will go better!
I'm praying it will also! :)
I still haven't gotten over Grace's "missing" foal.
The bad thing with Pea and the foal is this was the second foal born there, and the first one wasn't expected until about 2 weeks before he hit the ground. This one was expected for quite awhile, only to have it snatched, well it just sucks. But there's one to look forward to, so now it's time to focus positive energy on that mare and put the past in the past.
I would do C first, then I woild do A as I was waiting for his arrival.
But that would not be the end of it. If for some reason he could not come (out of the area, or in another emergency), I would get the horse to another vet somehow. Whaever it took, that is what I would do.
I do not rely on other people to be there, as it only takes once to realize that they will not always be there. If I had to put that filly in my car to get her to a vet at the university, that is what I would do.
And to add to what I said earlier--I am not the one interested in blaming people for not doing something here, and of course it is a horribly sad situation. It is sad when it happens to everyone, and it has happened to everyone that has been doing this for very long at all.
I just think it is important to see things clearly, without emotion and with an open mind--that is the only way we find true causes for things that go wrong like that, and thereby prevent them from happening again. Being so fired up to blame a vet for not making emergency calls does not stop this from happening again, so it is wasted energy
Breeding is not for the faint of heart.
Let me sy this.... I had called the vet at 6:45am at the latest, called again and finally the vet called me back around 9am. YES I had milked Pea and been feeding the baby colestrum while waiting. When I went in to see the vet, he wouldn't come out and see her cause he had a full day of 1 farm call already and the rest of the day filled with in office surgeries.
It's easy to say what you would done but Paige.... you don't live here you don't know what it's like here and I don't think you could comprehend any of it. I think I could explain things to quite a few people and their ability to understand would fall far short. I can't fault you for that, it's like my mother said it all comes down to money. I don't think however, all the money in the world would have had that filly alive and standing in my pasture today. I have not personally talked about it all and I doubt I will unless it's privately because right now my life is hard enough and I don't mean in an "Oh damn, I broke a nail" life is so hard kinda way.
I agree nothing like;y would have mattered. Don't sell me short though, I have been doing this a long time and I know what it takes to raise babies---there are quite often problems, and a lot of them cannot be fixed no matter what you do.
I don't see where money comes into it really other than having the ability to get her somewhere she could have been treated--and as I said, I do not think it would have matter.
Plus, I was only going on what I was told, which was not what you are giving me now--and there is a difference in blaming a vet for refusing to make a farm call and one who is obligated to another emergency and a full schedule of surgery.
If the goal of the whole discussion moved from trying to offer suggestions that we were asked for, to who to blame, I missed out on the left turn
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