17/07/2026
A good reminder even though it is one of the hardest things that you will ever have to do.
I’m sure everyone has heard the saying “let them go on a good day.” I don’t know that everyone truly understands the meaning.
Letting them go on a good day means not making the 32 year old arthritic broodmare suffer through one more winter just because “she’s still happy” even though her weight is dropping and those hills are getting harder on her.
Letting them go on a good day means exhausting all options and making the call for that 9 year old with a genetic disease that’s running its course even while others argue “but he could be happy in the pasture.”
Letting them go on a good day is knowing that late twenties bonded pair needs to go together, even if one isn’t as physically ready, the mental toll will be the downfall.
We are advocates for our animals. That means being the ones to give them a voice, even when that voice is saying “it’s time for me to go.”
And bluntly, if you cannot handle making that decision, if you are so selfish you cannot see the unnecessary suffering or pain, or if you are so uneducated as to not knowing what those markers are, you do not need to own a horse.
Good or bad, young or old, babysitter or outlaw, horses die.
It is your job to give them dignity in death.
Picture of my boy Bentley(I let him go a few years ago). Running with my others that have passed in a pain free place full of apples and carrots.
