EULOGY TO "BABY"
    You've probably read here earlier that "Baby" passed away at 5:45am this
morning ....... this has been a terribly rough day for me .... well, us -- 
it's affected Buddy too.
    "Baby"s death is going to leave a HUGE hole in my heart. She was my 
favorite - MY horse ... she only let me ride her. We really got to be a team 
together, she and I ...... and I was devasted 2 years ago when she was 
diagnosed with EPM (Equine Protozal Mylenacitis).  She never ever totally 
recovered from it and she was left with nerological dificienties (weak hind 
quarters and not totally coordinated).
    BUT, on her good days we would take a little trail ride
- on her bad days I would just groom her, talk to her and love on her!
    On Thursday afternoon she started to colic ..... I had the vet out at  
5pm Thursday - at midnight - then at 6am on Friday morning ....... and again 
at 6pm on Friday night. "Baby" was a fighter (survivor) ..... she never 
totally laid down ...... she stood right to the end -- then she laid down 
just as the vet was coming into our driveway at 5:30am this morning.  I knew 
I was going to have to put her down - she died before the vet could make up 
the syringe.
    She was really a good horse and I'd like to think that she loved me as 
much as I loved her.   She was a 16.1 hand tall DUN mare, Registered Quarter 
Horse ..... 17 years old - I'd had her for a little over 4 years as I bought 
her when she was 13 yrs old.  She was MAYBE "green broke" when I got her.  
*I* trained her ..... *I* rode her ... we were a team together.
    I'd like to think that she's gone to "horsey heaven" if there is such a 
place .... eating all the tall green grass ... and is happy and content now. 
These past 2 days had been terrible for her.  We tried to keep her out of 
pain but I know she was in terrible pain just before she died.
    I'm not too sure that I'll totally get over her passing.
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