A good time to die: Horse retirement yards as shared spaces of interspecies care and accomplishment

- Horse retirement yards can be understood as spaces of shared interspecies care.
- In the yards, managers, staff, and horses all participate in the provision of care.
- The pursuit of a good death requires an embodied process of tinkering and waiting.
- The yard manager has the primary responsibility for making the decision to euthanise.
- In a good companion animal death care and death are fully intertwined.