A dreadful day

We all know when we have animals that at times our hearts will be broken. today was one of those days as we had to put down our much loved young Welsh B stallion Imperial Aden. His oldest foals are only 2 year olds, and doing well at led shows. This morning my daughter rang me to say he had colic and could I get the toyota and bring it back as she was leading him home and the dogs were in the ute. we couldnt get a vet, always a problem in our area, plenty of small animal vets but our normal vet was preg testing cows. We finally got one after 2 hours who sedated him and he made the trip to the Adelaide vets, only to be told there was nothing they could do. A heartbreaking decision was made and our dear boy is no more. Such a young stallion and we very rarely have sand colic but it is always the best who go. This photo is not a good one, taken on my walk the other day, so very much in paddock condition with his mare. He is the one on the left. Only one mare to him for next year but he left three very lovely fillies this year. So much potential. Gone.