The Horse Was Obviously Abused and Suffering from Equine Depression

It really was a sad story. The owner couldn’t figure out why the horse was so depressed but it sure was. They came in with a large, beautiful horse which had more years behind it than it had ahead of it. They didn’t want to see it spend its final years suffering with equine depression because they loved the horse.

The horses had lots of space to run on a great big farm. It really is the idyllic setting for the life of a horse. It was because of this that the whole depression scenario was difficult to understand. The horse was suffering from equine depression even though it was living on a proverbial retirement home for horses? That doesn’t make much sense.

I tried probing the owners a little and asked them a few important questions. I found out they had an old silo on their land. The kids liked riding the horses in a meadow and the path led past the old silo. When I asked what was in the silo the reason for the equine depression became clearer. When animals died on the farm for whatever reason the silo was being used to store the dead animals. As the kids forced the big horse up to and past the silo, the owners explained, the horse would hesitate and then bolt past the silo and into the meadow. Because they loved the speed the horse would reach they would do this over and over.

They had no idea that the horse was doing this because it was very frightened. They didn’t realize they were abusing the horse. They were horrified when this was revealed to them as the reason for the equine depression. They offered any lifestyle correction that we would suggest and were very apologetic. After offering a few suggestions we spent a great deal of time and effort making corrections in the horse for animal depression using the therapies that we have here.

The outcome was very pleasing for both of us.

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