Urgent question for rivermom hope you don't mind
 

you were the only person I could think of to ask. I just passed by a house with horses. One was lying on its side, head flat on the ground. As far as I know (all TV knowlegde..I know very little about horses), horses don't noramlly lay like this. It looked odd so I stopped & knocked on the door to check that everything was ok. No one is home. I have seen these people with there horses & know they care for them. first ...am I wrong in thinking the horse lying like this is bad? & 2nd if so, do you know who I should contact so the owner can be notified or the horse can be checked on?

I checked to make sure it was breathing.. it is but not moving...sorry if I'm just being crazy but it worried me.

That sounds really bad. Anyone else who knows an answer I would love to have input from as well. I just knew the Sheryl would know.

Traci, i dont know girl... i wish i could help!! Hope Sheryl will be back online soon!!!

I know I hope she is back soon too. I feel helpless. Thanks anyway hon :)

Im trying to call her and bounce her back online LOL

awww thanks mandy...;)

You welcome girl, i just wish Sheryl would answer LOL

The horse is fine, it's just asleep or resting. You just have to worry if it looks uncomfortable & is biting at it's belly. a lot of times they will lay this way before a rain.

Thank you very much. I thought horses slept standing up & never laid down. Thank you thank you thank you. wow what a relief :D :D

Horses can sleep standing up, but lay down a lot. Cows also lay down to sleep in case you had the same misconception about them.

Thank you very much. I feel like such an idiot now :(

I'm sorry, I was afraid it sounded like that & I didn't mean it to. But I know a lot of people think cows only sleep standing up & they do lay down. Again I'm really sorry, I have a tendency to not phrase things correctly.

Awww that makes me an idiot too LOL... no serious Traci, you very sweet to worry about the horse, those owners would be touched if they knew!! :thumbup:
You rock girl ;)

ohh it wasn't you at all. just the fact that I was freaking out. & all was fine. :D

Mandy's right it was very sweet of you to be worried. I used to worry when I'd see em all stretched out like that cause it looked like were dead, but then you'd go out to check & they'd jump right up.

aww thanks ladies...I guess I worry too much. I'm the person who stops to check on a dog that is on the side of the road hit, then goes knocking on doors to let the owner know.

Oh man Chandra Amaya... that's really nice that you'd go to that length for someone else's animal.

I wish I had a neighbor like you!

If you think you feel silly, imagine how MY old neighbor felt when he stopped to tell me there were 2 dogs froze butt to butt up the road! :eek: I did not have the guts to tell him what was really going on, so I thanked him and promised to call the neighbor they belonged to. I can only imagine how HE felt when he got to work and started telling his story to co-workers with dogs!

It was great of him to be so concerned that I just couldn't embarrass him. :o

ohhh poor guy I bet he was the laugh of work for weeks. Atleast I came straight here & I know people may laugh at my stupidity but atleast I can read a different post for awhile ;)

The funniest part is he was the boss! Hes a very smart, successful man who just didn't happen to know how dogs do what they do. LOL

With the weather warming up horses LOVE to lie down. My Wildflower lies down A LOT with her head flat on the ground. She is sleeping. Believe it or not this is very NORMAL for horses.

Now...if you say the horse is NOT moving when you try to stir it then that's BAD. either it has colic or twisted intestines or a broken leg. Any horse that is stirred up SHOULD get up right away. Their instinct is flight during fright I might say...

You did a very nice thing Chandra by trying to get in touch w/ the nieghbors. If you are near by maybe you can try to stir the horse again/spook it if you have too. Yell, whatever. BUT>>> do NOT go into that pasture. A frightened horse or if injured can cause severe injury to you if he runs you over, etc.

Now the day Wildflower got caught up in the barbed wire fence about a month or so ago. She too was lying flat, head down and did NOT respond to my neighbor yelling at her. He too thought she was dead.

She was injured though and knew she couldn't move. A horse when trapped in a fence either lies very still or goes balistic and makes the injury worse. luckily Wildflower stayed calm.

Kudo's to you !!!! I hope this horse is going to be ok. Sorry for my delay in response. I left the house for a bit.

it is near my son's school. I think I'm going to ask him to walk back up & check. Thank you very much for your help & hope you had a fun trip out :D

That reminded me of when I was little. I was looking out our kitchen window and I yelled to Mom..."Mom hurry" she came running and I said "these two dogs butts are stuck together" and all my Mom said was "get away from the window." LOLOL Guess she wasn't in the mood to explain things....LOL