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[RC] good husband - Sbolinge - Kitley, Carrie E Civ USAF AFSPC 30 MDSS/SGSLF

What a sweet and sorrowful story.  That sounds just like something my
husband would do as well.  God bless 'em!  Did Whitney ever get another
horse?  The loss of Cassie must have been devastating for her.
~C


When my daughter Whitney was young she had a yellow Arab quarter horse
filly named Cassie that she had trained and had a couple thousand miles
of endurance on.  She loved that horse more than life itself. We were
headed home to Montana from riding the tevis and somewhere in the middle
of Nevada the filly started to colic in the trailer.  We found a vet
clinic way out in the middle of nowhere and stayed in a motel not far
from the clinic for almost a week until Cassie was stable and doing
pretty well. The vet wanted us to leave her there for another week so
she could get stronger for the rest of the trip home.  So we headed home
as Whitney's school was starting.  We spoke to the vet everyday and
Cassie was doing great and on Thursday he told us to head down to get
her that weekend....later that day he called and said she had taken a
terrible turn for the worse and he had no choice but to put her down. I
asked what was going to be done with her body and he said she would be
thrown in the gully with all the other dead livestock. I was devastated
by the whole thing and dreading telling Whitney when she got home from
school. My husband heard the news, and within an hour was headed out
with the old flatbed pickup to make the 10 hour drive one way to pick up
the body, pack it in ice, and bring it all the way home.  Which he did,
and buried her in the front pasture not far from the house. He built a
little fence with a little gate around the grave site so Whitney would
have her own little private spot to be with her Cassie. From then on, my
husband can do no wrong and that was 20 years ago! 


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