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Eldon (WA) 
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 Topic: I-600 had a tough job this morning...
Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:45pm |
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One of my customers called and said he needed his horse buried....so I took the old back hoe over and dug a hole for him. Turns out it was a $10,000 stud horse...28 years old, twisted a gut he thinks. Those are some of the toughest jobs...I was able to pick it up with the hoe, but when I lifted the stabilizers to move forward I popped a nice wheelie...next time I need to fill the bucket with dirt first....
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 8:00pm |
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Well at least you don't need to worry about damaging it. I hate burying animals but it's better than dumping them in the corner of the woods and leaving them for all around to smell come summer.
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 8:35pm |
Reminds me of a time we had someone board an elderly horse at our place for awhile. Was so blind it ran through the fence many times, the last time right over a fence post and it got cut up really bad. The lady finally decided to have it put down. the vet had a service come in to pick up the horse. I asked the guy what he did with them and he went into detail talking about how they cut them up and sell them for feed for tigers and other zoo animals. That poor lady started crying all over again. Guess she didn't want to find out where the old guy was going.
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Eldon (WA)
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 9:00pm |
There is a tiger/lion rescue north of Spokane that used to take horses for food. They would give you a nice plaque for a memorial....I guess the state or someone put a stop to that.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 1:20pm |
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Do you get paid a percentage of what the horse is worth for a job like that? Darrel
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 2:00pm |
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I sure hope he got more than that! A dead horse ain't worth much around these parts! LOL
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 2:33pm |
A wonder that you can still bury animals anymore.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 2:45pm |
 Eldon (WA) wrote:
There is a tiger/lion rescue north of Spokane that used to take horses for food. They would give you a nice plaque for a memorial....I guess the state or someone put a stop to that. |
I wonder how the Lions and Tigers took to going vegetarian?
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 4:05pm |
Most places say little about burrying single animals as they do not want to deal with grieving owners who lost a pet, be it a horse, dog or other. here they just say don't tell a lot of people about it and be sure there is 5 or 6 ft of cover, and your not into water table.
Have burried at least 10 with the hoe over the years, excluding 3 of my own out back.
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Eldon (WA)
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 8:39pm |
darrel in ND wrote:
Do you get paid a percentage of what the horse is worth for a job like that? Darrel |
I guess.....1.2% Burying pets has to be one of the toughest jobs, tho....
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 8:42pm |
Coke-in-MN wrote:
Most places say little about burrying single animals as they do not want to deal with grieving owners who lost a pet, be it a horse, dog or other. here they just say don't tell a lot of people about it and be sure there is 5 or 6 ft of cover, and your not into water table.
Have burried at least 10 with the hoe over the years, excluding 3 of my own out back. |
Yeah technically I think it is illegal out here, but what else are you gonna do? I think it is now outlawed to let them go to a rendering plant...PETA or somebody put a stop to that. Cremation???
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 10:28pm |
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Thats why people can't hardly GIVE horses away around here. Plus the cost of feeding them.. I heard that they still have horse rendering plants in Can. is there anything to that?
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 1:07am |
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Rendering trucks still run wi. Think they charge $40 for taking them and then they go down to a plant and make dog food out of them and the rest composted and then mixed into .... going to stop right there before the gardeners find out whats in some of their fertilizers.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 7:06am |
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Buried a couple of horses over the years with the 715 B. It takes a BIG hole to properly bury a horse! Neighbour's old quarter horse stud decided to die in the barn at 28 years. At one time his stud fee was $2000. Years ago we built a silo at a rendering plant that rendered the remains from a horse slaughter plant. The plant used to vibrate when the hoofs etc. hit the hammer mill. The horse slaughter plant has been closed for years.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 8:22am |
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The movie "Animal House" comes to mind where they bring in a chain saw to the deans office to get the dead horse out. Sorry could not help myself. I'll go stand in the corner now.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 9:18am |
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in northern mn it's hard to bury one this time of the year. just import more wolves , crows ,& eagles ' it's removed in about 3 days.
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DMiller
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 9:46am |
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In Missouri some counties require a exam(necropsy) of the animal carcass for disease unless a vet knows it, they do prefer you have the animal removed instead of burial in the counties I associate in.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 10:13am |
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There was a work horse breed stallion buried in a county west of here, in the earliest 20th century in a hole dug by hand under his barn (which is on the barn tours) and buried standing up. Took a couple days of digging for that. He was a famous and imported horse. Cost lots of money to get him there in the first place.
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