Taking decisions is a part of life and it will always be and you can always questions if you have taken the right decisions or not and maybe you will never know, if you will have to live with your decisions.

I am standing in front of taking a big (ethical) decision within the next couple of weeks. On of my horses has had a bad leg again since a couple of weeks and she has a year ago also been injured. It is an injury that will never get completely good again and she will never be able to be used for top sport anymore. She will maybe with the right(and exspensive) treatment be able to live a couple extra years grazzing in the field. But it is a horse that is used to being worked everyday and get individual attention, go to equestrican competitions and show of. And now her future will maybe being a horse left in the field.
That is my choice and on top of that i have a very exspensive insurance on her, that will pay her whole value out if i chose to put her down. But is this ethical?
It is not like i cant ask the animal what she wants and if i did ask i dont think i would get any answer. Some people tell me just to put that animal to sleep and give her rest from her pain, where other people say to give her the chance(and use allot of money on treatments) and maybe see if i can give her a couple extra years alive. But the plan anyway was to sell her over the summer and not have to go and pay livery fees for her anymore. But if i do chose to keep her alive i will have to continue paying livery fees for the rest of her life without even having any joy of her(except of being able see her in the field).

Then if it had been a human we would have done anything to keep a person alive for a couple extra years, but why not with animals? why have we got another set of minds when it comes to them, why can we think so logical and want to relief them from their suffering if they are in any pain. But with humans, they live through hard suffering for years. some humans are in pain 24 hours a day and no medication can keep them free of pain and still doctors try to keep them alive by new treatment even though their life quality is almost zero now. Should i also do that with my horse? even though she may have to walk in the pain til the day she dies or should i put her down and let her get away from her suffering?

There will always be these difficult decisions in life and this decision i will have to take on my own and i cant redo it when i have taken it.