If you’re like me, you love talking about, caring for, and pampering your senior horses. Yes, they may be old, but they’re still so full of life. Surely they’ll be around for years to come. But there’s nothing like a colicking 27-year-old horse to remind you that, unfortunately, our horses are mortals and won’t live forever.

Shortly after I dismounted from a great ride on Dorado Tuesday night, I received a phone call from my mother in Michigan. She informed me that Taz, our food-loving Appaloosa gelding, wasn’t eating his dinner. He’d lie down in his stall briefly when he came in for dinner and now was kicking his feet and swishing his tail.

Taz isn’t out of the woods yet, but the situation is looking much better than it did two days ago

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