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Does your "boarding horse" insurance cover that loss?
What a day!
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No insurance involved. The owner of the horse had actually been advised recently to have horse put down, however she had not been able to do it yet emotionally. In the end, this was not really a surprise to the family.
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Dave,
Do you think maybe the shooting spooked the horse, it got scared & had a heart problem ?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Do you think maybe the shooting spooked the horse, it got scared & had a heart problem ?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Cliff_Johns
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Even if the horse's time was up, it's still got to freak you out. It's still got to make you feel a little guilty. And what if they hadn't been expecting the horse to die?
I hope your wife is dealing with the whole thing all right.
You know, for a minute there, the way you'd written that, I thought you'd accidently shot their horse.
Cliff
I hope your wife is dealing with the whole thing all right.
You know, for a minute there, the way you'd written that, I thought you'd accidently shot their horse.
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We don't believe so. We were several hundred yards away, with a row of trees and several buildings between us. At that distance a .22 and 9mm are barely louder than a can of beer being opened. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif.
Cliff, do ya think I wrote it that way accidentally? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif My wife is fine, and even the owners of the horse were justs as apologetic to us as we were to them.
The most ironic part was that in the middle of this, the children from the house across the road walked over to spend some time with the horses (one of them is theirs), and I managed to intercept them a few hundred feet away and send them home telling them we were in the middle of a project and for safety sake we couldn't have them around. I immediately called their house and explained to their mom why I had sent them packing and not allowed them to visit with their horse.
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Cliff, do ya think I wrote it that way accidentally? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif My wife is fine, and even the owners of the horse were justs as apologetic to us as we were to them.
The most ironic part was that in the middle of this, the children from the house across the road walked over to spend some time with the horses (one of them is theirs), and I managed to intercept them a few hundred feet away and send them home telling them we were in the middle of a project and for safety sake we couldn't have them around. I immediately called their house and explained to their mom why I had sent them packing and not allowed them to visit with their horse.
Dave
BobRip
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In some ways this worked out well for the owner. She did not have to make the difficult decision and did not have to watch the horse die. I take that as a blessing, although you and your wife did have to deal with the stress.
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