11/02/2025
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN EUTHANIZED BEFORE IT GOT THIS BAD…
That’s what someone will write in the comment section of this post.
And I agree (pre seeing any radiographs).
This two year old Belgian stallion likely had a broken knee or birth defect that caused intense juvenile arthritis at a young age.
His knee is now the size of a volleyball and open sores are on this one and his other one, from where he just randomly collapses and falls.
I’m guessing he’s in a lot of pain.
It’s likely at 18 months he was started to train to harness and this may have exasperated an already dire issue in his knee.
When it was clear he wouldn’t hold up to be a work horse, they dumped him at auction knowing he’d be sold for $400 right to slaughter.
I know this because he would have ended up here a lot sooner if they hadn’t tried to work him anyway.
They don’t keep broken toys around.
Disgusting right?
Now the ending of his story is almost set in stone.
He would ordinarily disappear on a truck bound for Canada to be rendered for human consumption at the Richelieu plant in Quebec if not for us.
You and me, dear reader.
Typically I don’t post horses like this online. People like to tell me they don’t ship (they do), or that it’s good he’s being slaughtered because he’s useless otherwise (not true).
They’ll say slaughter is humane.
It’s not. Watch any video inside an equine slaughter house and you’ll agree— chutes built for cattle, captive killing bolts used on the brain when they are only made for cattle— or worse— sheep being used. Broken necks, broken legs, injury and after injury…
It’s not humane.
Nothing about it is humane.
Or alternatively I break someone’s heart when I say it’s unlikely we will be able to do more than give him a compassionate ending. They will message us and say I will take him! I’ll keep him in my field and spare him euthanasia.
Even when he can’t walk anymore or loses weight from the intense pain he’s in. At least he will be alive!!
That’s not right either.
Situations like this don’t fit perfectly in black and white.
It’s shades and shades of grey.
I know how posts like this go.
And I don’t post this to upset any of you.
But…
But today I want to show the REAL, the RAW and the true story of what we do.
You deserve honesty. You deserve transparency
This c**t exists.
Twenty five others are just like him in this pen most likely.
Tossed away and broken…
And yeah, maybe we won’t be able to give him more than a few days on high dose painkillers in a soft bedded paddock with love and care.
Or maybe his radiographs won’t be that bad and he will be able to be a pasture puff.
I possess no crystal ball.
But even if we do have to compassionately euthanize him with a licensed veterinarian, at least it’ll be kinder than slaughter.
Or starving to death in someone’s backyard.
I think about my own death a lot. I haven’t been very talkative about my extreme OCD health anxiety but having almost been wheel chair bound permanently once and having 2-5 seizures every hour— I know what it is to fully consider and fear death.
I know I want my last days to be good ones. Family, friends, good food and good wine.
I wouldn’t want this.
Not a death full of fear in a slaughter house listening to the screams of those dying before me, smelling the blood of a horse before me, and being provided limited resources.
That’s not a death anyone deserves.
And I’m reminded of that when people say why rescue a horse just to provide compassionate euthanasia?
And the key word is really in that phrase, isn’t it? They why is so simple if you really think about it…
Compassion.
He deserves a compassionate act, even if it’s a final one.
No one ever donates directly to horses like him. They usually say, “save a young or sound one or a healthier one.”
People say c**ts like this are rescue cash cows but I find them to be the opposite.
Our followers who are here to save horses are deeply saddened and turned away, our haters are incensed— how dare we raise funds for this c**t when healthier ones remain inside??
Because he matters too.
No matter how short— his life, it matters too.
Please don’t forget that.
Don’t lose sight of the fact that each of these horses are alive. They’re sentient.
And they deserve the best care we can offer them.
Each and every one…
Will this c**t have any hero’s? Would anyone be willing to donate and sponsor him to see a vet today?
I don’t know.
Maybe I’m just kicking the hornets nest by showing this c**t.
But I look at him and I do not forget how high the stakes truly are.
Because for me, for CCR, he deserves rescue too.
Please consider donating to free him, or sharing to educate others about the unseen faces of the slaughter pipeline.
Make his life mean something just by sharing.
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