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Text Box: Gabe has passed over the Rainbow Bridge. On Friday November 9, 2007, I had him humanely euthanized since I was unable to keep his weight up for the past several months. I did not want him to suffer during our cold winter months. I know that his life was better since coming to live with me and I know that he died with dignity. He has taught me how to rehabilitate a starving horse and he taught me how to handle a stallion while breeding. He taught me one last lesson; how to know it was time to let go. I’ll miss you Old Man. So long...I hope you are up there keeping Phantom company! If It Should Be (Author unknown) If it should be that I grow weak, And pain should keep me from my sleep, Then you must do what must be done, For this last battle cannot be won. You will be sad, I understand; Don't let your grief then stay your hand. For this day more than all the rest, Your love for me must stand the test. We've had so many happy years - What is to come can hold no fears. You'd not want me to suffer so; The time has come, so let me go. Take me where my needs they'll tend And please stay with me until the end. Hold me firm and speak to me Until my eyes no longer see. I know in time that you will see The kindness that you did for me. Although my tail its last has waved, From pain and suffering I've been saved. Please do not grieve - it must be you Who had this painful thing to do. We've been so close, we two, these years - Don't let your heart hold back its tears Gabe’s Story We are so lucky Gabe is with us or maybe Gabe is so lucky he found his way to us. However you want to look at it, he wouldn’t be here had I not gone to the auction that hot day in June 2004. I have no idea what made me go to that auction that day, but upon seeing Gabe for the first time, I knew he had to go home with me. When I first glanced over in his direction, I thought he looked like a young colt, maybe a yearling, from some distance away. Then, I got closer and realized that he was a much older horse that was in desperate need of rescuing. He was so emaciated that I could see every rib and count every bone in his back. I couldn't believe someone could let such a beautiful animal go to waste. I was told that the owner had lost his wife and had let the farm go downhill. Some 20 horses had been run through the sale. Gabe was special and I could tell that the sale manager had a soft spot for him. He said he had tried to get his weight up before the sale but didn’t know what else to do with him. I just figured he needed the ‘right’ food and I could ‘fix’ him. I took him home and started feeding him senior feed and hay. I dewormed him and got his feet trimmed. He still wasn’t getting better, he was getting worse. He got so thin that I thought he was going to die if I didn’t figure out soon what was wrong with him. Then someone on my Yahoo! Group said that their horse was sensitive to alsike clover. His pasture was full of it. All of the symptoms he was exhibiting were all being caused by the clover. I removed him from that pasture and put him in the barn out of the sun since his liver probably wasn’t functioning right. Also around that time, I took him to my friend’s to have an equine dentist look at his teeth. He removed all of the remaining rotten teeth out of his mouth. I put him on antibiotics for several days. That was August 2004. Since then he has bloomed into a beautiful horse, full of life again. He has probably put on 200+ pounds and probably still needs to gain more. He is a joy to have and always puts a smile on my face. He is easy to handle and a gentleman at breeding time. I am going to use him to breed our mares and maybe a few outside mares. As long as he stays healthy and is not in any discomfort, I plan on him living out his days right here at the Montgomery Ponderosa.

Last updated 2/6/2007