YESTERDAY WE LOST OUR SWEET LITTLE SAMBO. HE WAS OUR TWO YEAR OLD COLT THAT WAS IDENTICAL TO HIS MOM "IDA". I WAS DRIVING OFF TO WORK AND AS USUAL I ALWAYS LOOK OUT AND CHECK ON THE HORSES. I SAW LITTLE SAMBO LYING ON THE GROUND AND COULD TELL HIS STOMACH WAS SWOLLEN. I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD. I HONKED MY HORN AND DROVE UP TO THE GATE AND STARTED CALLING HIS NAME. HE GENTLY LIFTED HIS HEAD ONLY A LITTLE BIT. I RAN OUT TO SEE ABOUT HIM AND WHEN I TOOK A LOOK I KNEW IT WAS BAD. I IMMEDIATELY CALLED DONALD AT WORK AND THEN CALLED DON, OUR VET WHO CAME RIGHT ON OUT. I SAT THERE AND STROKED HIS HEAD TO TRY AND COMFORT HIM. HE LOOKED AT ME WITH THOSE BIG EYES AS TO SAY THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME. I HAD TO WALK OFF BECAUSE STAR CAME BAILING OVER AND KICKING AND ALMOST GOT ME.
DONALD CAME AND HALTERED HIM AND LED HIM TO THE PEN. HE WAS IN SUCH PAIN AND SO SWOLLEN. DON TOOK A LOOK AND SAID THERE IS NO GUT SOUND SO THAT MEANT HE HAD A TWISTED GUT OR WAS IMPACTED. ALL WE COULD DO WAS PUT HIM OUT OF HIS PAIN. AS DON WENT TO GET THE SHOT READY AND DONALD HELD LITTLE SAMBO, I PUT MY HEAD AGAINST HIS AND TOLD HIM I WAS SORRY AND THAT WE LOVED HIM. HE SNUGGLED WITH ME. IT WAS SO SAD TO SEE THIS BUT WE DID NOT WANT HIM TO HAVE TO SUFFER ANYMORE. DON GAVE HIM THE SHOT AND IMMEDIATELY HE WENT DOWN.
LITTLE SAMBO HAD ONLY A SHORT LIFE BUT I CAN SAY HE HAD THE BEST LIFE A HORSE COULD ASK FOR. HE WAS FED AND TAKEN VERY GOOD CARE OF AND RECEIVED LOTS OF LOVE. THEY ALWAYS COME TO THE FENCE WHEN YOU GO OUTSIDE WANTING TO BE PETTED. MORGAN EVEN GOT TO GIVE HIM ONE LAST PET ON SUNDAY . YES IT WAS TERRIBLE TO HAVE TO SEE HIM GO THIS WAY BUT I AM GLAD TO SAY I GOT TO LOVE HIM AND TELL HIM GOOD BYE ONE MORE TIME.
WE LOVE YOU "LITTLE SAMBO".
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That made me cry but I know he is no longer in pain.
awwh that made me cry too. Poor little thing. It's amazing how attached we can all grow to animals...I don't understand how some people can be so cruel. But then again, you know I'm the biggest animal lover ever...remember I cried every time I had to leave a pig. Sorry you had to be the one to find him, but I'm glad someone was there to be with him.
Poor little Sambo. I haven't told Morgan.
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