So we've been having big discussions all weekend about what to do with Zak. I've been waiting for John to accept how bad the situation is. He's been saying maybe Zak could go as a field companion, but how could he?
1. He won't travel in a lorry, so where would you take him?
2. He eats so much food he isn't really suitable as a field companion. Field ornaments are supposed to be cheap to keep.
Then John's been saying we could get on with it and keep Zak on box rest for a year, but the vet says there is no guarantee he would be rideable at the end of it. I know we did this before but this was four years ago and Zak was a lot younger then. By the time he came sound this time he'd be 17.
He isn't the sort of horse that would be content with plodding round a field time after time.
The vet said his good leg is diseased. This has come as a total shock. We honestly had no idea. There is just no guarantee that he'd ever be sound, just a guarantee that at some stage his leg will pack in altogether. I can't bear to think about it.
God give me strength and give John the ability to face reality.
Jane x
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