Molly Mae
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:51 am
I had a situation about five years ago that I needed to share after reading what Jeff had written.
Our family had purchased a QH about five years ago and I had thought was very loving regardless if she was broke or not. I was looking to get back into the saddle more often. We brought Molly ( In Nov.) back to our pasture and she was great and her and I were inseparable. I broke her, she did well, but she had a BIG JEALOUSLY Problem with my first son. SHE DIDN'T LIKE HIM NEAR ME AT ALL.
She got to the point that if my son who was four at the time went out to see me with her - she would tear away from me to go after him. LITERALLY off and running, teeth bared ears back and my son never did anything negative to her that I know of because her and I were close, like best friends.
We have a back deck that she jumped over to get to him. And right then and there, she had to go. Or else she would hurt him. We put her up for sale, cheap mind you but no one was interested because at the time we knew of only family horse people and one family came and she went after the nine year old boy. She didn't display this type of behavior when our son was there when we bought her, but as time went by ( about a month in the spring time) she went after my husband. And he was working 40 days straight and 10 off and this was his first day off to see her and try to understand what was going on.
In May ( it was two months of putting her up for sale) we brought a friend over who was female to help me ride her better, I needed a refresher balance wise ect. and through the lesson she broke from me and chase the instructor down. At one point the women was down on the ground and the mare ( Molly Mae) was about to run her over. She threw me and went after the instructor and Molly was successful . My instructor left and she asked that we euthanize her and my husband and I agreed.
The vet came, got ready to inject and she turned on him ripped into his arm. He got the muzzle on her but she kept swinging around, he couldn't do it. We were stuck with her.
At that point in our lives we had to ask ourselves what do we do? We can't get rid of her, our son can't walk out on to the deck and she has struck an instructor and a vet. Since we can't fire a firearm in our area we couldn't put a bullet in her head cleanly.
I know I know it sounds BAD. It was bad enough that we had to feed her carefully and my husband had to flee for his life if he went to take care of the fence, so we asked the vet to come again and this time with a Deputy because he either said injection and have animal control or the deputy attending to shoot her because of the complaint by the instructor. We needed many hands to keep her still.
The vet failed to get the needle in but the deputy didn't fail ... it took myself, my husband, the vet, ( Kept my son inside) and the animal control to hold her while the deputy shot her.
but I ask you with an animal like that I couldn't send her to slaughter but if that Deputy didn't shot her properly and she acted up, she would have been wounded by the bullet and not dead. And then you would have had a situation as bad as slaughter because he couldn't get it squarely and she was in pain.
I often asked myself why? Donald was never around her until the spring. He was working 14 hour shifts. I fed her. My son never left my sight until he got up from his nap and came out. He never touched her, he wasn't allowed to touch the horses. Once he got up and out to the deck I had to quit being with her and be with my son.
I don't think I could but what if that Deputy couldn't show up or what if that Vet wouldn't euthanize her. What would happen to my son if he left my sight?
Our family had purchased a QH about five years ago and I had thought was very loving regardless if she was broke or not. I was looking to get back into the saddle more often. We brought Molly ( In Nov.) back to our pasture and she was great and her and I were inseparable. I broke her, she did well, but she had a BIG JEALOUSLY Problem with my first son. SHE DIDN'T LIKE HIM NEAR ME AT ALL.
She got to the point that if my son who was four at the time went out to see me with her - she would tear away from me to go after him. LITERALLY off and running, teeth bared ears back and my son never did anything negative to her that I know of because her and I were close, like best friends.
We have a back deck that she jumped over to get to him. And right then and there, she had to go. Or else she would hurt him. We put her up for sale, cheap mind you but no one was interested because at the time we knew of only family horse people and one family came and she went after the nine year old boy. She didn't display this type of behavior when our son was there when we bought her, but as time went by ( about a month in the spring time) she went after my husband. And he was working 40 days straight and 10 off and this was his first day off to see her and try to understand what was going on.
In May ( it was two months of putting her up for sale) we brought a friend over who was female to help me ride her better, I needed a refresher balance wise ect. and through the lesson she broke from me and chase the instructor down. At one point the women was down on the ground and the mare ( Molly Mae) was about to run her over. She threw me and went after the instructor and Molly was successful . My instructor left and she asked that we euthanize her and my husband and I agreed.
The vet came, got ready to inject and she turned on him ripped into his arm. He got the muzzle on her but she kept swinging around, he couldn't do it. We were stuck with her.
At that point in our lives we had to ask ourselves what do we do? We can't get rid of her, our son can't walk out on to the deck and she has struck an instructor and a vet. Since we can't fire a firearm in our area we couldn't put a bullet in her head cleanly.
I know I know it sounds BAD. It was bad enough that we had to feed her carefully and my husband had to flee for his life if he went to take care of the fence, so we asked the vet to come again and this time with a Deputy because he either said injection and have animal control or the deputy attending to shoot her because of the complaint by the instructor. We needed many hands to keep her still.
The vet failed to get the needle in but the deputy didn't fail ... it took myself, my husband, the vet, ( Kept my son inside) and the animal control to hold her while the deputy shot her.
but I ask you with an animal like that I couldn't send her to slaughter but if that Deputy didn't shot her properly and she acted up, she would have been wounded by the bullet and not dead. And then you would have had a situation as bad as slaughter because he couldn't get it squarely and she was in pain.
I often asked myself why? Donald was never around her until the spring. He was working 14 hour shifts. I fed her. My son never left my sight until he got up from his nap and came out. He never touched her, he wasn't allowed to touch the horses. Once he got up and out to the deck I had to quit being with her and be with my son.
I don't think I could but what if that Deputy couldn't show up or what if that Vet wouldn't euthanize her. What would happen to my son if he left my sight?