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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1165165" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Ron, it's off the subject a bit but I'll tell the story anyway.</p><p>Years ago where I was working we had a local lion park that would come and pick up all the deaduns. I had to go out to see a horse that was down and fitting, it had tetanus. I told the owners that it needed to be euthanased pretty fast and that I could do it with barbiturate but they could not send it to the lion park, they agreed and I did the job. It took a lot of Lethabarb to do the job and nothing seemed to be happenining until I realised that massive muscle contraction around the neck was not letting the drug flow through so we rolled it over and the drug flowed through with a rush and it was soon resting peacefully. Unfortunately it was near a road. The owners organised a backhoe to come and bury it but he could not get there until late in the day.</p><p>Later that day the owners came around to see me and asked if the horse could have got up and walked away as it was gone. They were only renting the paddock and thought that maybe the owner dragged it away up the back somewhere away from the road.</p><p>A few days later a nearby vet that did work for the lion park rang to ask if I had euthanased any horses lately as they had a couple of lions that were asleep and they could not wake them up. Apparently someone driving past had rung the lion park and they had quickly removed the body and it was subsequently fed to the lions without checking on the cause of death. Unfortunately two lions died from the horse and a few others woke up after a very long sleep. It did have a lot of Lethabarb in it.</p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1165165, member: 16453"] Ron, it's off the subject a bit but I'll tell the story anyway. Years ago where I was working we had a local lion park that would come and pick up all the deaduns. I had to go out to see a horse that was down and fitting, it had tetanus. I told the owners that it needed to be euthanased pretty fast and that I could do it with barbiturate but they could not send it to the lion park, they agreed and I did the job. It took a lot of Lethabarb to do the job and nothing seemed to be happenining until I realised that massive muscle contraction around the neck was not letting the drug flow through so we rolled it over and the drug flowed through with a rush and it was soon resting peacefully. Unfortunately it was near a road. The owners organised a backhoe to come and bury it but he could not get there until late in the day. Later that day the owners came around to see me and asked if the horse could have got up and walked away as it was gone. They were only renting the paddock and thought that maybe the owner dragged it away up the back somewhere away from the road. A few days later a nearby vet that did work for the lion park rang to ask if I had euthanased any horses lately as they had a couple of lions that were asleep and they could not wake them up. Apparently someone driving past had rung the lion park and they had quickly removed the body and it was subsequently fed to the lions without checking on the cause of death. Unfortunately two lions died from the horse and a few others woke up after a very long sleep. It did have a lot of Lethabarb in it. Ken [/QUOTE]
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