Shadows’ second death
So there will be nothing left from my beautiful Shadows. The vet clinic wrote this morning that the last egg they had harvested from her had failed to result in an embryo.
This marks the end of a heart-wrenching five year adventure with that beautiful mare. She was beautiful inside out. Shadows with the large, soulful eyes, prominent eye sockets and long eyelashes, delicately arched throatlatch, refined neck, fine cup-like muzzle and delicately shaped lower lip, the high withers, deep girth, round barrel and the broad chest of a lioness, who despite her bad hindleg injuries carried herself with dignity.
Why is it always the best ones that leave like this? What sort of curse is that?
I am so, so saddened to hear this. 🙁
I am so very sorry to hear this. My condolences on this second loss.
This is not unexpected, after your last post about her, but it certainly is a tragedy for Arabian breeding. She was a sweetheart.
This thing called “preservation breeding,” is time and time again a heartbreaking venture, which makes the successes all the sweeter. I feel your pain and disappointment. I wish for you more successes in the future.
i am very sorry to hear of such sorrowful outcome when she was so very beautiful…we mere humans can only do our best to try and preserve them. but what if we did not try? what if we didnot care? i think despite the sorrows of it -it says well of us that we do try and do care. and sometimes-just sometimes we are successful…
You did your utmost to save Shadows and her line. That counts for a lot in my book.
I’m so very, very sorry to hear this, Edouard. Shadows was a truly special mare, and you did everything possible to carry on her legacy.