Referencing this thread in reply to @Baysn_Blondes’s “Talk Me Out of Buying a Pony” thread made me think I should update this one. Weirdly, I see a lot of my posts with previous updates and photos of the pony have disappeared, perhaps in the forum migration. I definitely didn’t delete them. It’s kind of a bummer because I had some great times with the pony that I documented here.
Anyway, I have a sad update from the past few months. My sweet project pony was a wonderful match with her new person, a petite adult. They had a lot of fun times together eventing, foxhunting, and trail riding. We kept in touch, and my TB and I even joined them on a hunter pace this spring! Sometime in 2023 she started having jaw issues that were initially thought to be an abscess, then bone cancer. It eventually turned out she had an extremely rare condition, some sort of parasitic infection in the jaw bone that had also spread to her brain. Treatment by the local vet school failed to keep her out of pain, and she was let go. She was only 12 years old.
Since a lot of my photos from earlier in the thread disappeared I will post a few of the pony in memoriam:
Selling horses that you care about is not for the faint of heart and I am very grateful that she had such a wonderful human who did all the right things at the end. She was actually only the first of THREE of my former horses who had to be euthed in the past three months or so. Another broke his leg in the field at the age of 8 or 9. The third stopped being able to digest food at the age of 20ish. I guess I am a little superstitious so I am hoping that this was a rule of three thing and that the third one will be the last. RIP sweet ponies, great and small!
