[Porffor]

Thanks all ((hugs)) appreciated.
Mary, try not to cry, she's out of misery and that's what matters. By all accounts they don't feel anything. She certainly didn't seem to.

For now we'll stay as we are we have the chicks to raise etc but I'm sure one of them will fill Shimmers place in my heart.

all in all i'll be glad to go to bed tonight we sold our section A pony today so i shed a lot of tears over that for the last few days. I'm all cried out now!

[Boxfanman]

Tough day Porffor. Sounds like you knew it was the right thing to do.

[nettynoodles1]

awwwwww so sorry to hear of your loss Porffor but well done for doing the deed yourself   hugs from mee too.
 get yourself a large galss of something and take it easy.
Selling ponies is hard I know  sold a few in the past myself, well not mine but people i rode/worked for. But they were my babies still........ i was employed to bring them back into work to sell as the owners had been injured riding and they had been left for a couple of years (still well looked after)

[Porffor]

Thanks both. ((Hugs))

Netty sounds like you're a handy person to know! lol don't fancy backing a New Forest do you?   I backed our section A and brought him on from a skinny (totally skinny) little yearling, My eldest lost her bottle some time ago from a fall , has had some ups and downs along the way but has decided it's not for her and he's going to waste in a field, as he's young we don't really have an option than to find a jockey. I have been long reigning lungeing and all sorts recently to try and keep him fit. But have a bad back and am facing having to sell our 2 year old NF if I can't back him myself, i'm no longer allowed to ride.
We are lucky in that the farmer we have livery with had asked if I'd sell peanuts (section A) as he was looking for a safe pony, so he's gone to a great owner, on the same farm that he knows and enjoys with 4 children to ride him in future, they're planning on continuing his showing and very very happy with him. I'm sure he will be with them too. Still a bitter sweet day as you know.

[nettynoodles1]

awwwww hun at least you know where he is and that he will be well looked after.
weve just got our 10hh shettie re broke....... well we think he must have broken before as he never once complained about a thing my dd3 fell off him and now wont ride..... she was the 1st on him and he shot forward! i found me a brill jocky from the local riding school to sit on him next :?  since then hes been on the roads  the lot with a rider on board. my kids are next dd 1 way too big as she same height as me 5'7 or 8 lol dd2 good jockey when shes in the mood.other days she grumbles and moans lol DD3 scared at mo DD4 not intrested at all since she got booted in the back by another shettie(shes only5).

the folks i used to ride for had arab race horses but just had 1 left when i went they never bothered to tell it hadnt jumped and guess wot wally got on n jumped it? i was schooling it n they said pop over that so i did       stayed on somehow :shock: all there horse were nutty tho i should have known.
just got me a new horse too so i got 3 now all rotting at present cause of the lousy weather

anyway big hugs

[compostqueen]

Sorry to hear the sad news about Shimmer. Poor girl  

[Jellyhead]

Aw Porforr, I think you were very very brave too. Would be bad enough with any animal but with one you are particularly fond of well that really takes courage. I am so with you on putting them out of their misery tho, to me it is THE only decent thing to do. Big hugs from over here honey and hope you are feeling a bit better  

[Porffor]

Thanks all. Jelly, am feeling more settled about it, still strange her not being there.. saw Scarlet sat on the roof of the little house today and was so strange as she and Shimmer would perch at on the roof like they were having a gossip. Scarlet waited a long time before going to bed last night too, think she was waiting for Shimmer, usually shimmer would go first and come back to the doorway as if to call Scarlet.
Funny little things but time will help. Must remember not to get too attached in future though. Says she that can't stop watching the chooks!

[too many girls]

por, don't say you won't get too attached in future, that's half the fun of keeping them, we all get our hearts broken now and then, it's about not letting it get the better of you, i cried buckets over the cow shed girls, (still shed a tear occationally when i look at their photo's, but i think a lot of it's a guilt thing) but it's done now, i can't do anything to change that, so i just keep enjoying the ones i've got left for however long i've got them for, as for selling ponies i'm rubbish, ok so Gemma at 40 is too old to sell (perish the thought), but the kid's have moved on to horses and ziggy's doing nothing but eating her head off, and she's only 14, i sometimes feel guilty that i'm spoiling it for some other kiddie as she's a decent pony, but just can't convince myself that anyone else could possibly love her as much as we do, anyway if Ziggy went Gemma would be lonely ( they've shared a field for 10 years) and we couldn't have that could we?

[Porffor]

lol that's not rubbish, that's sensible no way could you sell a 30 year old.. nuh-uh and she needs a field companion.. and should she 'go' to the rainbow bridge you'll need a companion for Ziggy too! That's a long friendship they've had. The main reason for my selling the boys is because of my own condition and that I don't have my own land. If something happened and we headed back to normal livery (they're on grass livery and love it) I'd never manage 2 stables again. Let alone running around with the ponies and backing the youngest.
I still hope the 2 year old doesn't sell and Erin suddenly wants to ride him in the spring. Some hope but hey-ho.

I am too much of a softy with animals I'll be honest and kids.. I don't think i'd manage not to be attached. not in my blood.

[too many girls]

know exactly what you mean, my kid's didn't really have a choice tho, the ponies were there and had to be ridden, whether they wanted to or not, it may seem like bullying but it worked for us, all of them ride now (better than me actually) and Sam's on the brink of stealing my horse Chip,  your children are young,  look on the bright side, if you can keep them interested, when they get older they could be looking after your horse for you!