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I would have posted this last week…..

…..but honestly…I was just too sad…..

…..Claire is gone…..

It was not a surprise…..

It was planned……

But that doesn’t make it any easier…..

I hate having to make “those” decisions…it’s above my pay-grade…..

When I brought Claire home from Alabama…(about five years ago)…I knew she wasn’t doing well…..

And after being lectured by my large animal veterinarian (Stevie Wonder)…that I shouldn’t be bringing home sad/dead-end projects…..

…..I knew Claire’s time was limited…..

Her previous life had been hard…..

She had been neglected…..

Her registration papers didn’t really match…(who knows what her real past life was?)…..

Maybe if her original hoof injuries had been cared for when they first occurred…maybe they wouldn’t have terminally progressed to her demise…..

…..but “what if’s”…don’t change…”what is”…..

It is what it is…..

Claire had good food while she was here…and good company…and a pasture with no work for her last years…..

Recently…I asked Stevie Wonder to check on Claire the last time he was out…..

…..I knew ahead of time what he would say…..

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It was obvious that her hoof canker had progressed…and there was no stopping its steam-rolling proliferation…..

Claire’s time was nigh…..

Her leg swelled so suddenly with multiple coronary band eruptions…..

I’m a big believer…that there has to be a quality to life…..

I’ll fix what I can…but when I can’t…I won’t prolong any suffering…..

Claire’s and my battle with her hoof canker had come to an end…..

Stevie Wonder administered “the blue-juice” (which is actually pink now)…..

Claire just laid down and died quietly…..

I knew this end was inevitable…though I didn’t want it to be…..

I can hope that my passing will be just as quiet and anti-climatic as Claire’s…..

And now…I have to worry about Brave…he’s sad…he’s lost his pasture buddy…..

Life marches on………….for some…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

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