For 2027 days I took care of this very special horse...
Cubanito xxi, the horse who whispered to me and my inituition to be saved early december 2009... The boy who trusted me immediately and came to me to stay.
The leader of the rescue horses that I saved.
My heart was ripped into pieces when I was informed this afternoon that he was in a stupid accident this morning. Later I found out he died. I am so angry I broke my promise to him and let him go to Belgium but Brenda was the best what could happen to him. He was the most intelligent horse I ever met, not the easiest one (as he was so intelligent).
I have let him down as I could not protect him once away... What happened today, pull away and then trip over the cord and break his neck should never have happened. This boy had his whole future ahead of him.
After Boomer left us, I had a lot of time to fill... So we spend hours, lots of hours picking fresh figs and making lots of different marmalade recipes For the 5th year in a row, available as of now and delivering in the Netherlands in October, and Belgium in November. All for the charity of the Whispering Rescue Ranch !!!
My body aches, my shoulders feel old, but I did it and it's done.
Broke down a wall yesterday filled with cement (I only builds decent strong walls of course) so the tractor would be able to put that expensive Raygrass under a roof...
We had a Black Weekend at the Whispering Ranch, a bad, bad, weekend indeed... frown emoticon
First I discovered that a bug has reached the Whispering Ranch and is killing all our piteras...Over 80 % have already died in just a few days...
And when I wanted to get some food for the horses from the winter reserve, I found out it was ALL molded and has gone bad... The WHOLE winterreserve of bayo... I only have food for another 2 weeks left... A loss of over 1000
That I later on floaded the whole terrace and kitchen was felt as not important, of course...
The food of the horse being more important than everything...
At 3 am. it will be 4 weeks since I had to set him free... A one of a kind, exceptionnal, unforgettable soulmate, the one and only,... he changed my life forever.
I don't want much... I'm even happy with only 10% of the forcasted rain in the next 2 weeks... but please give us some and enough so I can sow oats and greens for the rescue horses. It's been 5 years since we had any decent crop for them...
A sincere and special "THANK YOU" to Juan Manuel Griñan and the whole team of the "Hospital Veterinario JG" in Muxamel, Alicante for helping, guiding and caring for Boomer and me in the last months of Boomers earthly life. Thanks to you Boomer and I have been able to stay together always and everywhere and enjoy a very intense and special 4 extra months heart emoticon You're the best !
It is with great sadness that I have to announce to you that Boomer left his earthly body in the early hours of Monday.
He had a seizure at 2.30 am and would not survive another one. Therefor his vet and I decided to prevent him from a second attack or suffering and have let him go surrounded by love, warmth and respect... More info will follow soon on the blog. Boomer went to his forever restingplace this morning. Some pictures from Sunday:
Boomer started showing the signs of his illness during the night, vomited once and had diarhea... He hates that just like I do and I can feel how he feels. I thought he would want to quit today...but waking up with a cool breeze... Apparently I got it wrong...
He has been running, guarding, barking, wiggling his tail,...
Chiefvet of vetclinic JG is coming over this afternoon to evaluate Boomer
So I did not go down to the clinic with Boomer. Boomer was not feeling well stomachwise and I did not want to take any risk on him getting sick in the car... I hate vomiting so I don't want him to have to either !!! I have just the best vetclinic there is !!! Mar and Mariano came to us, took blood of Boomer, Cheyenne and Gipsy and put a new catheder in Boomie's back leg so he could get some I.V. fluids. Still barking, still jumping up when a stranger comes near to the house,but resting a lot too, most of the day in fact. Still waggling that tail when he sees me, still in for a cuddle (sssssht don't repeat that out loud), still ..... Owow and Addi came by too... with a BIG chuleton for Boomer for tonight, yeahhhhhh. So what did the bloodtests say ? I only have 1 healthy rescue dog left: Gipsy... she is free of any southern disease... Cheyenne tested Leishmaniose positive, Tommy Anaplasma and Boomer... well Leishmaniose of course and Erhlichia which is killing him... PS I do put the nice pictures up from Boomer, the good moments...
All healing thoughts are welcome... 2 hours ago Eva got the message that Boomer needed a blood transfusion now !! Boomer is undergoing the procedure at this very moment, a procedure which is not without risk... Lucky Boomer to have a great vetclinic with lots of people caring for him... and of course Eva is with him...
