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Terrible Day!!!

NR, I am so sorry for your loss and the hurt it brings to you and your family. Something like that horse is irreplaceable. As time goes on, I hope you will be able to enjoy many good memories of your time with her.
 
I will also send my heartfelt condolences. It's always hard to lose an animal you love, be it horse, cow, dog, cat, etc. I know I have emotional connections to some of the critters around here, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I've cried when we've lost some of those "special" ones. I feel for you and your family.
 
We've been without electricity foe the last several days so I am just now reading this site. Sorry for your loss! You can't kill the dinks, but the good ones always go too soon.
 
By now NR the kids are home from school, we hope you're all getting through it. Such a terrible thing to lose a dear friend like a good horse. Monty Roberts said, "There's nothing like the outside of a horse, for the inside of a man.", but I think for any of us who have truly bonded with a horse, it's not their outside that gets us. It's their heart and soul they give so freely, and we're happy to return it.

Things will be brighter, soon. Take care.
 
Sorry about the loss of your good bay mare. Horses are partners in our ranching occupations. It is devastating to lose any of them, but more especially the best of the best. Ranchers always hate to lose any animals, but when cattle die it is a financial loss. When good using horses die, it is as if part of the family is gone. You have our sympathy, Northern Rancher and family.
 
I've lost one to that foul disorder. Not pleasant...I sympathize! If one operates then they get (parenitise ?) gut bugs that do them in.
 
Like jinglebob, we just got our power back on so hadn't read this post before. Sure sorry about your loss, it's a real bummer to lose what amounts to a member of the family in ranching country. We lost two of the best horses on the place this summer.

We found our youngest son's good bull dogging horse stretched out dead and still warm in the corral one Sunday afternoon and from the looks of the thrashing marks in the dirt he probably also died the same way yours did. All the local cowboys were in mourning over his death. Most of them dogged off him at one time or another and they lost a good friend.

Two weeks later we lost the old bay saddle horse that raised our grandkids. You could put anyone on him and do anything with him. He'd watch a cow and know what she was going to do before she did. He was only eighteen and in good shape, he hadn't been sick or hurt, but we found him dead out in the pasture. Kids and I all bawled like babies. We sure understand how you feel.
 
NR- Nothing anyone can say can really help you when something like this happens :( I know we are all so sorry and unhappy for you. The sun will rise tomorrow, and life goes on, however that doesn't help very much right now. You have my condolences. I pray God's Peace for you and your family.

DOC HARRIS
 
Once again thank you all it's made a tough day a little better-one lesson for all of you-that special mare don't wait forever to raise a colt from her. I'd give anything to have a little bay filly to raise up right now.
 
NR and family: I know how tough it seems right now but it will take time to get to where you will be able to recall with fondness just how good the "bay mare" really was!! We don't have much choice but we do have to deal with life as it is presented!
 
Sorry to hear about the loss of your mare. Sure leaves an empty spot when this happens. My brother just lost a gray stud, "maybe colic". He was one of those that you sure liked beeing around too.

You have the comfort in the fact that you had the chance to ride a good one.
 
It is a privilege to ride the good ones. I've always been guilty of having too many horses around. Like your nice bay mare, my Tom Cat has always been the yardstick by which to measure any other horse.

Another good cowboy (not Saddletramp), who I have ridden a lot of miles with, has good-naturedly chastised me for riding Tom Cat "too much" and not putting the miles on young horses. My reply was that I had a Cadillac, and none of the young horses I had would ever be in his league. That was why I "drove the Cadillac" and "left the Volkswagens in the garage."

I know you lost a Cadillac of a horse, Northern Rancher, and that is why the loss is so especially hard to take. Hopefully you have other horses related to her that can someday take her place.
 

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