How would you feel?

[arsvcs]

Yes, she did bill for 5 days that she wasn't there and I refused to pay it. Of course I received a bill after the mare had died.

[Cathyleabo]

I know this is frowned upon here, but this situation calls for a name, address and phone number post on this board.
Protect the horses lives before the humans feelings.

[Crystal]

WHAT.. your mare died of colic, so there is a fetus in a jar.. what the hell kind of tales from the crypt farm is this?

Do you have a boarding contract? Is there anything that states you would be notified when your mare was ill, or any emergency vet work has to be done?

[arsvcs]

http://www.glasgowfarm.net/

You can view at the link above.

[BELLARINA]

This is so wrong on so many levels that I do not know where to start!!!!!!

A foal fetus that is small enough to fit into a jar? How far along was the pregnancy? My husband can hardly fit his hand inside a pickle jar. And was it in embalming fluid? WHO THE HECK CARRIES AROUND EMBALMING FLUID????? It's not exactly a tool of the trade!

And how did she go in and get the fetus? If the mare was dead, Oxytocin would not have worked to make the uterus contract!!!!!! With a fetus that small she would have really had to manipulate the mare and had helping hands. Someone else knows something like the worker who said, "she sold the mare".

Are there any other complaints aginst this person we call "the vet".

[arsvcs]

She claims the fetus was about 45- 48 days gestation and it was in some type of fluid, I don't know what. I have not idea how she got the fetus, she told us that she removed it. There are no other complaints that I know of. Mine are the only ones and there were 3 of them. I agree real strange. I have done all I can do unless you have and ideas!

[Linda_d]

I think I'd file a complaint with the local police about a missing, possibly stolen, horse. Let the farm produce the body.

[pfrsue]

April of 2006? *blink* That's almost two years ago. There's not much anyone would or could do now.

[arsvcs]

I know, but I started this in late May 06 with the med board and just received a decision last week.

[dray33]

Much too late. Waiting for the boards decision was not a good idea. Now that all this time has passed, recreating the events and the document trail is nearly impossible. It becomes they said, you said. There has to be more to the story here. The time-line doesn't add up, with the fetus, the death, the burial, the notification.

If what you say is the whole truth, what transpired is criminal. But asking the med board to help you and leaving it at that is questionable. No further action for nearly two years? No calls to the police? If it was me, I couldn't have waited. Did you ride them? Continual follow-up? BOTHER THEM? Do you have the documentation showing the correspondence?

My heart goes out to you, it really does. What a horrible story. What is the name of the Med Board that you filed with? What is their side of the story (the farm), what did they claim to be the events that lead to this filing that lead to them getting off scott-free after 2 years?

[arsvcs]

dray33 if you PM me your e-mail address I will gladly send all docs to you. I have nothing to hide. Remember there were witness to all 3 complaints that I submitted to the vet med board.

[lucalucaluca]

i am certain your vet sold your mare without your knowledge. she did not die. remember one of the workers who said "i think the vet sold her". i've seen this happening before - although not in the same circumstances. A friend boarded a horse during the summer in a farm, the owner of the farm told her her horse had died. Then she found out 6 months later her horse was sold to another state. Consider this...very weird story.

[surprisewind]

Do you still have the jar? And if so, was your mare DNA profiled?

[arsvcs]

No it is at Davis Genetics in CA under going DNA. I didn't know anything about this until a couple months ago. A person on the forum told me about them. I'm waiting on the results.

[madelyn]

It really sounds suspicious.. on the other hand, what would someone do with your mare without her registration papers, nor any way to get them reissued and register her foals? Unless she headed to slaughter, which was in full swing in 2006.