Rocky the 3 legged foal has finally been euthanised!

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

Only a year too late. Not sure if anyone in here follows the page but about a year ago at a Rocking R Ranch and Rescue in America, a 3 legged foal was born and they kept him alive until yesterday. He caused a lot of controversy online, people saying he should’ve been put down at birth and people on the other side saying he was a ‘miracle from god’ and was clearly happy, loving life and you couldn’t prove he was in pain 🙄 which, true, but horses are NOT meant to have 3 legs, because they carry the majority of their weight on their front legs and to have only one leg at the front puts a huge amount of strain on his bones and muscles!

It's not an armchair opinion to say the horse was in pain. It's a fact.

I have just had my last horse PTS after over 20 years of horse ownership on DIY livery.

Maybe TheHateUGive will kindly inform us of their horse-owning history?

He wouldn't have known any different. Whether or not the vets thought that was immediately too poor to ethically live is unknown.

Did you follow the detailed posts about Rocky's care and treatment from the time he was rescued? Which of the professionals who worked closely with the owner did you disagreed with, and why?

What are you feelings on non profit rescue organisations in general?

Don't have to own a horse to defer to horse doctors treating the animal.

Don't have to own a horse to defer to horse doctors treating the animal.

LOL.

How can you personally defer to a vet regarding an animal's treatment if they aren't treating an animal that you own?

We none of us know the opinions of the vets who were involved in Rocky’s care, so I can neither agree nor disagree with them.

My feelings on non-profit rescue organisations are mixed. Obviously some of them do great work. But I’ve also seen some with shockingly poor standards and animal welfare. Honestly there are some horses at so called ‘rescue centres’ that need rescuing out of them. It needs much better regulation IMO.

Because I believe in their regulated profession and that they are better situated than you to assess the horse's QoL.

But unthread you have acknowledged that you understand it’s the owners decision to PTS ordinarily, not the vets. I can’t work out why you keep saying the vets were right when you know it was the owners who decide when to euthanise?

When I say ‘much better regulation’ I mean any regulation - currently in England specifically, there are no formal licensing requirements for rescue/rehoming centres. Anyone can set themselves up as one, there are no inspections or reviews. It’s wild.

But surely you've looked at all the photos and reels and you can come to your own opinion about the quality of his care. Which posts made you most uncomfortable and why?

He had 3 more functional legs than Kiki the sheep.

Yes of course I’ve come to my own opinion, but you asked me which professionals I disagreed with. I’ve no reason to think his care (meaning husbandry?) was anything other than fine, but then the owners would hardly post videos showing otherwise.

Just watching the progressing deformity of his remaining anatomy was pretty uncomfortable. Maybe because the owners saw him every day it was harder to acknowledge. What do you think?

We dont know that the vets recommended euthanasia

For a horse born with 3 legs. Knowing that the QOL was only going to get worse. I would be very suprised if the vets didn't suggest euthanasia.

I assume you mean Noel Fitzpatrick? The walking ego?

https://id-myhorse.com/the-hostile-hypercritical-horse-community/

A ridiculous article that basically amounts to ‘humans and dogs sometimes suffer from back pain/disabilities and we don’t put them down’ and large extracts from google AI.

that's a yes . clever man , innpvative but sometimes "why"?