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It is so sad when that happens. I had a friend that it took me almost a year to talk her into putting her dog down. Similar situation but it’s easier to keep a dog going. The people like this I have dealt with always say “they love them too much to let them go.” I can’t help thinking they don’t love them enough. It isn’t love to let an animal suffer. I hope you can get through to the owner, or the mare passes soon.

Oh that is awful. I can’t see how the mare could possibly make a trailer ride. Would she even be able to get in the trailer?

I definitely agree that sometimes the most loving gift you can give to a beloved animal is to help it pass easily. I recently was present when the therapeutic riding program I volunteer with made the decision that it was time to let one of our mares go. I first saw her when she was only a few hours old, helped with her training, worked with her for over twenty years, even got to ride her myself from time to time. She developed a tumor on her left ovary, and it caused her to have testosterone levels higher than most stallions. She got firmly fixated on another mare in the pasture and called for her friend incessantly if the friend was being used in a lesson. We decided that the time had come, because her behavior had the potential to endanger a rider during lessons. I'm sure that she was also probably quite uncomfortable.

I hope that someone can get it through to this clingy owner that she is not doing any favors for her poor horse very soon.

The SPCA has opened a file. We found out where she has moved the mare and updated the SPCA. Hopefully they will actually step in.