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[pr0nstrajen]

can someone explain to me why a horse would need to be euthanized because it had 2 broken ankles?

i know horses aren't humans but is there a reason they can't live with some broken bones? someone explain this to me...

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[payoffpitch]

My understanding is that horses have no quality of life with broken legs. You can't set a horse's ankles like humans' and they can't function lying down.

[pr0nstrajen]

make a horsie wheelchair

i think it's bullshit and people just treat animals like expendable items

[payoffpitch]

Well, I work at an animal hospital, and the sentiment really is that there's no such thing as redemptive suffering for an animal. They don't suffer for any good, like humans do. So why let them live in misery? It's not a matter of them being expendable; it's that they shouldn't live in pain. Horses live to run. Say there was money for some sort of contraption that could support a horse's front end so he could stand upright. He still couldn't run. What kind of life is that? Sometimes, it does more harm than good to animals to view them as people.

[pr0nstrajen]

well they do make animal painkillers. i don't know. i guess if they can't heal properly and their quality of life would suffer then it's okay..it's just hard to say when we can't communicate with them. it's sort of funny though how we criminalize euthanizing humans but do so readily with animals.

[charmedgirl]

One broken ankle is potentially fixable and especially for a racehorse who's owners have shit tons of money they would have tried to save her. But two is irreparable because she wouldn't be able to shift her weight to support herself during the healing process. Plus many horses don't take to being confined to a sling etc.

That was incredibly tragic.

[pr0nstrajen]

i was hoping you would comment and enlighten me

[charmedgirl]

did that make sense?

what happened was she was a 3yr old filly standing 17hh. That's quite tall for a horse, and she wasn't done growing. That right there is the point, none of those horses are done growing. Horses don't mature until about age 5 or 6. Yet since the racing industry (and others such as the QH industry with racing, reining, working cattle events- not real working on ranches-) start their horses far too young for the sake of making money as soon as possible. Since she was so huge and not done growing, this race, along with the stress of all the races and work outs she's done previously, her bones couldn't take it. They were too large and not fully hardened so they broke.

[charmedgirl]

"Since horses can't distract themselves with art, writing, reading, academia etc. if their physically unable to do things anymore like humans can."

sorry that sentence is crack... *they're

and basically i mean their quality of life without being able to move properly is equivalent to a human who is parapalegic, blind, deaf, and mute all at the same time but with a fully functioning brain. okay maybe not that drastic.

poor horse

[wetlikeyermama]

i am always watching animal planet. they put down way too many animals for no reason. my god i mean my old neighbors dog had three legs and only one eye. and i mean they still loved him. I had to stop watching that channel for awhile. especially detroit cops because of all the dogs bread for fighting. its sad... :(

[sweetpandora85]

Sad situation, horsies are so sweet.

I miss you.

You should add my new journal, damnit.

:P