RIGHT NOW a horse lays dying in my neighbor's yard.
She's a 30-35 year old mare. Don't know who owns her (neighbor doesn't own a horse, not since 2003 anyway--and nobody knows where he is and he hasn't been seen for days).
There's 3 sheriff's deputies, a bunch of neighbors holding umbrellas (also keeping her cool with water, ice, etc.), and a poor beastie who's just about given up the ghost.
I was out there for the past 3 hours, haven't even had a bite to eat until now. Gonna cram down some food and head out again to see if I can help out in any way. We keep trying to get her to stand up. Succeeded once but she was so shaky she just slumped down again.
Animal control isn't coming (according to the sheriff), so no emergency vet either. Somebody's gonna have to pay for the rendering service.
This is a bad day for all of us I think.
