Valentina - #533 - Chestnut Appaloosa Mare
Basic Info
| Name: | Valentina |
| Number: | 533 Auction (ESP-2/7/2010) | | Price: | $400 |
| Age/Color/Gender | 0 Years(Unknown) / Chestnut / Mare |
| Breed(s) | Appaloosa |
| Broke? | Yes |
| Condition | Bad |
| Status | Euthanized on 2/15/2010 |
| Source | KillPen |
| Primary Cause | Pain |
| Ending | Vet |
| AH Thread | http://auctionhorseswa.net/index.cgi?board=rainbow&action=display&thread=77 |
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DescriptionValentina was a very sweet mare who was run through the auction (Feb '10 #533), but was unlucky enough to not find a home in the ring or even afterward in the kill pen. She was completely lame and had to be forced to move at all due to the enormous pain that she was in. She was priced originally at $450, but Ron later lowered her price to $400 when he had to move her to her own pen because she was so uncomfortable. The costs for her ended up being $400 (purchase), $60 (euthanasia), and $250 (removal). Unfortunately I do not have the record of fundraising on this mare since it appears to have been done in a separate threads, so all I can say is thank you to the folks who donated, whoever you were.
I've tried to summarize the thread in order to post it here, but I cannot do better then KL's final words about this mare:
I'm home and the tears have finally stopped running down my cheeks. :'(
Valentina was an amazingly smart, trusting and tough girl. When I arrived I told her "you're going home today baby"... I meant Heaven but I think she thought I meant back to whomever dumped her there because she ran! I finally got her cornered and once I threw the lead rope over her neck, she dropped her head for the halter. I believe they were branding calves due to the stench and smoke filling the barn so I was a bit nervous about how getting her through that dark alley would go. However, once that halter was on her she didn't even pause - she led like a champ through the scary, dim and stinky barn, right out to out to the truck. I let her stand tied there for a little bit just eating hay and apples, while I took a couple pictures and told her how pretty she was. When it was time to load she walked right in like she was anxious to hit the trails. When we arrived at the vet's house, he was running behind so she got to do a little grazing and eat some more apples before it was time for her to go.
NOTHING happened after the first shot and the vet was amazed... he had to administer a second dose as he commented it had been a LONG time since this had happened. After the second shot she finally went down but her body wouldn't let go. He thinks she may have had EPM or something else that affected her central nervous system because it wasn't right at all that her brain wasn't reacting the way it should have. After the next shot her body stopped moving but she was still breathing and her eyes still responded - so the poor vet had to administer more before her body finally turned off. He is so kind and kept assuring me that she didn't feel any of it... and he seemed pretty darned sure that she was ataxic and wasn't as healthy as she looked. He said it has been over twenty years since he needed that much drug for a horse. May she be healthy and happy at the Rainbow Bridge... and may the owners who dumped her be bitten in the butt by karma.
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