OK. It's been a while again.
This year Grayson and I had to say goodbye to our two elderly black cats and the horse.
Dante we knew had cancer (throat or sinus) and passed peacefully at home 5 minutes before the vet arrived. Sneaky, canny old dude. He hated vets.
Ezio I took in for possible urinary tract issues and half his intestine was cancerous. What a lousy day.
Sherlock had some vision issues early in the year. His good eye got cloudier again and he cut himself on the fence. He bounced back and we had a few lessons with the local trainers trying to find a good match, but didn't really hit it off with anyone. I didn't really know what to do. Then in July his eye went cloudy again. He got a bad abscess under his jaw - likely from running into something. He hit his head a few times, got more spooky and worried about things he couldn't see anymore.
We tried to keep him in the corrals while the others went to pasture, so he'd go slower and be more predictable. He freaked out. I started going every day to walk him out to the pasture safely in the morning and get him in at night. He just loved running with the other horses and would get so excited and lose track of the fence- or of the people. It was starting to be an accident waiting to happen.
I thought about moving him to another facility where he could be in a small paddock all day while we saw if the eye would recover again. But time was already up, as he couldn't see well enough to get into a trailer.
So before we had a bad accident that hurt him and possibly someone else, we euthanized Sherlock in late July. It was a very sad day but I know it was the right thing.
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