07/16/2026
This video is of Twister's last evening on this earth. I thought he was picking up after we rolled him over. I thought maybe we could figure this out. Vet thought giving him meds and time might be enough. Now that I know how hard it is to find horse rescue resources in our area, I would have done things totally different when I first found him. But I can't know if something else was going on, I strongly suspect there was, or he should have gotten up, at least when we tried assisting with the tractor I would have thought he could have gotten his feet under him. But we didn't have proper equipment and things slipped. Had vet out, firefighters, family, friends to see what we could figure out. Called emergency lines and posts on Facebook to try to locate equipment. But by midmorning the next day I knew he was done. People offered to bring equipment or figure things out later that day, but it was already getting too late.
Of all the horses I've lost over the years, this has to be the hardest. He felt like the "heart" of Heart Echo Equines, he was there for me, my kids, events, and many EAL learners in his 6 1/2 years with me. We can't go back and change anything, but we can move forward together and process in a way that honors what Twister started.
This morning I woke to a tornado warning, and it felt different than ever before - a reminder of how a Twister can show up and disappear again and leave us all changed.
Goodbye my friend 🙏
