Post by Cara & Jewel on Oct 7, 2011 16:33:54 GMT 1
In the early hours of yesterday morning, my beautiful mare Jewel was cruelly taken from me. She died of acorn poisoning. She was in so much pain and was suffering from kidney failure and internal hemorrhaging, so I tragically had to have her put to sleep 
It doesn't seem real, it was like I was having a nightmare and I just wanted to wake up I just can't get my head around the fact that she has gone, I'd got so much planned for us, I was going to take her dressaging over the winter and I was just getting my confidence at jumping again it's just not fair!
I just wanted to warn people about the effects of acorn poisoning, as I didn't (and not many people I've spoke to did), know just how fatal they can be. They affect individual horses differently, some horses are more sensitive to them than others. Jewel developed an extreme taste for them and sadly she must have been very sensitive to them So please if you have oak trees in your fields they must be fenced off, our yard is surrounded by them so they are all being fenced off, I would hate for another horse and owner to go through what me and Jewel have gone through
Our first ever show
Sleep tight my princess, run pain free in Rainbow Bridge xx
It doesn't seem real, it was like I was having a nightmare and I just wanted to wake up I just can't get my head around the fact that she has gone, I'd got so much planned for us, I was going to take her dressaging over the winter and I was just getting my confidence at jumping again it's just not fair!I just wanted to warn people about the effects of acorn poisoning, as I didn't (and not many people I've spoke to did), know just how fatal they can be. They affect individual horses differently, some horses are more sensitive to them than others. Jewel developed an extreme taste for them and sadly she must have been very sensitive to them
So please if you have oak trees in your fields they must be fenced off, our yard is surrounded by them so they are all being fenced off, I would hate for another horse and owner to go through what me and Jewel have gone through Our first ever show
Sleep tight my princess, run pain free in Rainbow Bridge xx
What a dreadful shock, and a reminder to the rest of us that it's too easy think think they'll be ok just because you've not met one who wasn't.
