My vet engages in a lot of potentially dangerous activities. I understand that not much in civvy life can match the adrenaline of being an elite paratrooper so I don't really try to limit what he does. I do wonder if there is some passive suicidal ideation involved, but I also understand that he doesn't want to die in a puddle of his own urine in a nursing home at 92 and life is meant to be lived so again, I don't usually make any attempt to stop him.
On Christmas Day he broke 3 vertebrae in his back when he had to bail out on a bucking horse which was trying to smash him into a fence. I saw the whole thing and for a time didn't know if he was alive or dead. I had to rush in like a rodeo clown and stop the horse trampling him on the ground. The horse then tried to kick him and then tried to squash him against the gate. This horse has malice and intent. I think it needs to be shot before it kills someone. (Animal rights people don't bother to comment on that because as much as I love horses I put human life above equine life and 550kg of animal that wants to hurt people is too dangerous to have around.)
Despite the fact that my vet knows how upset I was and that I didn't want him to ride the horse again he took the horse out yesterday while I was at work. (Yes - with the bones still unhealed in his back. He wore a safety vest - which he should have been wearing the first time!) This time the horse actually threw itself down on the ground which unseated my vet and then came at him on the ground. He then got on another horse and led the dangerous horse and it bit and kicked at the leading horse.
I told my vet he needed to chose between me and the horse. Yes - I know - stupid to give him an ultimatum, but I was really really upset. He says its his decision and he wants to keep working with the horse. Wants to give it "one more chance".
I feel as though he does not give a f*ck about how I feel. He obviously doesn't think I'll actually leave him. Just want to curl into a ball and cry.
On Christmas Day he broke 3 vertebrae in his back when he had to bail out on a bucking horse which was trying to smash him into a fence. I saw the whole thing and for a time didn't know if he was alive or dead. I had to rush in like a rodeo clown and stop the horse trampling him on the ground. The horse then tried to kick him and then tried to squash him against the gate. This horse has malice and intent. I think it needs to be shot before it kills someone. (Animal rights people don't bother to comment on that because as much as I love horses I put human life above equine life and 550kg of animal that wants to hurt people is too dangerous to have around.)
Despite the fact that my vet knows how upset I was and that I didn't want him to ride the horse again he took the horse out yesterday while I was at work. (Yes - with the bones still unhealed in his back. He wore a safety vest - which he should have been wearing the first time!) This time the horse actually threw itself down on the ground which unseated my vet and then came at him on the ground. He then got on another horse and led the dangerous horse and it bit and kicked at the leading horse.
I told my vet he needed to chose between me and the horse. Yes - I know - stupid to give him an ultimatum, but I was really really upset. He says its his decision and he wants to keep working with the horse. Wants to give it "one more chance".
I feel as though he does not give a f*ck about how I feel. He obviously doesn't think I'll actually leave him. Just want to curl into a ball and cry.