My Horses Are My Life | An Emotional Horse Story

By: Lindsey Jolliffe

I was ten when this all took place in a town called port orchard. I had two horses that I loved truly one was diamond who I had been currently riding in 4-h he wasn’t the best but he was mine & that’s all that mattered. My other horse was a 26-year-old pony named brownie he was the best ever & he liked coke. One mooring a couple of months after fair I woke up to my moms tears. I asked what’s wrong she said its diamond he got hurt really bad. I asked is a vet here she said no I couldn’t get a hold of one. She said I tried to get a hold of Deanna (are best friends) but the line is busy she said wait by the phone incase the vet calls.

Before I could ask her were she was going she was gone. Then are car pulled back in the driveway she asked if the vet called back I said no. Then I asked if I could see him she said yes so I went out to see him it was worse then I expected the back left knee was draining and right bellow it was a severe cut. I asked is Deanna her she said not yet but soon.

[private]My mom pulled me aside & said if its broke we cant let him suffer. I looked in his eyes & realized he understood but I didn’t. I went upstairs & cleaned my room till Deanna & Kristin came luckily they had Dr. Marian’s #. We waited till he came. he told us he was pretty lucky. He stitched him up & said he cut two tendons he also said he would have to be stabled for 6 months & couldn’t be ridden for a year.

A few months later my pony foundered I found out when I had been walking home from school I recognized the vets truck & immediately thought god diamond! I ran the rest of the way then I saw my mom holding brownie I asked what happened she told me. I said what are we going to do with these horses. He foundered a few more times.
A few months passed by and then it caught up with him. We found him lying down and he couldn’t get up so my mom and I tried to make him as comfortable as we could. We both knew what we had to do but we were stalling. I looked over at diamond and saw the same understanding look that I saw in his eyes when he got hurt. But it was different this time and he tried to get Brownie up with all his might. Then I realized that you can you can never give up on life unless its your time.

Later on we called the vet and the vet said that we had to put Brownie to sleep. After that we took diamond up to my great aunts where he lives today. I’ll never forget those two horses not even when I die.[/private]