Rhonda,
Not many people understand our closeness to our animals. But having shed many tears in my life I pray you don't experience any loss. Please keep us posted.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

"When the power of love overcomes the love
of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix

Hey all, thank you so much for the prayers/good thoughts etc

Sham's doing fine now, it was "just" grass colic like I had thought, but of course I started to panic when I was in my room away from three exiteable prey animals.

I got up a couple times in the night the other night to check on her and by about 2 in the morning she was back to normal. If she had still been acting colicky by then I would have called out the vet. He probably would have told me to come get a shot of painkiller to make her more comfortable; it's so much easier to deal with things when the cause is known.

Anyway, everyone's ok, I'm just about recovered from the scare, and she was tearing around in the pasture last night and freaking out over the pigs; I will be much more careful about the length of time they're out on grass for the next week or so, until their easily upsettable systems get adjusted to having grass.

Thank you all so much again, it was soo nice to know that I could come here and not have people say "she's just a horse"

and then He created the horse...

believe in what your heart feels...