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Posted by hossboss
on 7/2/2009, 12:02 am, in reply to "The Reality of Living with HYPP ???"
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I hope I never see one again.
It was a dozen years ago and picturing that day still gives me cold shivers. I don't shiver easily.
Horse seized and fell on his rider. She had multiple broken bones and they couldn't get him off her.
He thrashed and flailed and his head slammed into her head.
He was grunting in a weird sort of soprano and she was screaming until he knocked her out.
She'd had the horse for 2 years. She spent time with him every day, rode him several times a week.
She had no idea he was sick. None of us knew what the hell was happening.
There was a young man there who ran to his truck, grabbed a rifle and shot the horse.
It took him a while because until the horse was still for a minute he was afraid he'd shoot the girl.
There were 20 people there and it took all of us to get her out from under him without tearing her up more.
Thankfully she stayed out.
By the time they got the tractor there we had already gotten her free.
I know the girl spent weeks in the hospital and had problems after that. I didn't know the family well so don't know the exact details of how she ended up, but I know she was never the same.
I have a lump in my throat retelling that day.
I condemn the AQHA for refusing to address the problem.
For registering positive horses. For not requiring testing and disclosure of Impressive bred foals.
For allowing this disease to be propagated when it could be eliminated in one generation.
I would take whatever dietary recommendations Dr. Clair and vets can give you and keep him a pasture pet. Or put him down.
I would rather play Russian Roulette than ride or see someone ride an HYPP horse.
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