Mount Abu an Update

Mount Abu an Update.A Horses Tale.

The Burning ghats of this area

We noticed two men trying to ride a horse up the steep steps going to the blazing Ghats of this location around 9 a.m.

The horse fell down these steps twice and somersaulted into the bushes below. It battled to its current position from there. Amit, an Abu vet, arrived to view the horse and informed the owners that the horse had a brain bleed. His compounders injected the horse with medication and then departed. The owner and a couple of his guests lingered for a while, perhaps waiting for the horse to get up and walk.

The Horse

Liz was seeing the animal suffer; she couldn't handle the sight. She called Kaizad, the guy in charge of the PFA, and asked him to look into the problem; he stated he couldn't do anything until the owner himself came forward and asked for his help. She immediately called the vet and asked him to put the suffering horse to sleep. He also stated that his hands were bound and that he couldn't do anything till the owner called him. She called Kaizad once again. He countered that the only thing he could do was notify the SDM Mount Abu, to which she answered, "Please do?" The clock has struck nine o'clock.

The horse is in horrible shape; one of its eyeballs has come out of its socket, and it occasionally goes into a severe spasm. I took a little video and will share it as soon as I upload it to my account.

The eyeball is under its head.

P.S.

The horse had to have died early in the morning. The jungle crows' "Kowws" at the crack of dawn, expressing the mood for an early breakfast, could be plainly heard. Fortunately, there aren't many jackals and hyenas in this region, or they'd have had a big feast during the night. The once-abundant vultures have vanished from this area. 

The municipal JVC arrived at 9 a.m. to transport the carcass to the landfills.

An encounter with a crazy horse Mt. Abu

It was the summer months and I was going through the relatively empty vegetable market when suddenly I was yanked off my feet. I had just passed a huge horse and it was this animal that had suddenly gone crazy and grabbed me by the flesh on my left shoulder plate. While dangling in the air I managed to let of a wild swing which landed on his snout, this reflex action of mine broke the horses hold.

To say I was shocked would have been an understatement; I was terrified and beat a hasty retreat to get far away as possible from this animal that had gone berserk. Everything happened so fast that only a few people moving around this area had observed what I had gone through. The horse was still pretty mad   and before I could shout a warning he began chasing a young terrified youth. Just then a second horse appeared and this was like providence had intervened, this horse now turned its full attention on this horse, snorting and biting the arrival on its neck. 

Both the animals behaved very strange they seemed to be going at each other , we who were watching all this heaved a sigh of relief when one of them made a beeline out of the market followed by the other . I went to my doctor who made a thorough  examination, the horses teeth marks were embedded in my flesh but thankfully the flesh had not raptured, after giving me a tetanus shot I was discharged. I asked Dr. If I needed any anti-rabies shots to which he replied nay no need,  probably a frustrated horse and not a mad one.

Later I learnt that it was the horses mating season and 99% of the animals were studs, a solitary mare and been recently purchased by one of the horse men operating in Abu. Apparently this female was on heat and hence the strange behavior of the studs in this one horse town of ours.