No foot, no horse

[odycee]

The vet came out to Oscar today and she was as shocked as I was that he has laminitis. I never even considered it as a reason for his lameness. He's been lame for about three weeks now which is way before the grass started to come through. For goodness sake, he's a thoroughbred cross and there's not exactly an abundance of grass in the field. How can he have laminitis? Rah. So he's on painkillers now and off any hard feed. He's going to drop weight spectacularly now. I was looking forward to him being out for the summer in a few weeks but really, he's going to have to be in at night still for a while yet to restrict his grazing. Well, he's only got it mildly and we got it in plenty of time so I'm sure he'll be fine.

/unintelligible horse ranting

In other news, I invested in a new TV and got a DVD player for my room (very cheaply I might add). I am indeed made of money. Ha ha.

Edited for stupid spelling mistakes.

Comments

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

ugh, that sucks. at least it's mild. do you have to do corrective shoeing? or does the vet even think that might help? sometimes it really does speed up recovery. In spring, there is always some part of me that is terrified that they'll all founder. maybe that's why I should never have a pony.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

The vet says if he's not okay in about three weeks then it's x-ray and heart-bar shoe time. I would hope it doesn't come to that as we've caught it in plenty of time. And it's a pain in the arse getting x-rays done as we don't have any transport or mains electricity at the field. Last year one of the ponies on the field had to have one and the generator wouldn't run the mobile machine. We ended up taking her down the road to a very kind old lady's house who let us plug the machine in there and did it on the front lawn!

I just can't believe he's come down with it. Our old pony was prone to it but that was to be expected as he was a small native pony. Oscar's a 15.1 thoroughbred cross with no extra weight and he started with it before the grass even started to come through - the field isn't exactly rich pasture anyway. Rah. It's all very unfair. And expensive. We've only just finished paying the vets bills for when Champ was put down in November.

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

heehee, at least you have neighbors who will help :) x-rays fascinate me, but they aren't all that fun to get with an uncooperative horse.
and I'm quite familiar with the expense of special shoes. I leased a horse with navicular. the bute alone was expensive, but the shoes are rediculous.
I wonder what would've caused it..... (I tend to fixate on stuff like that as it's pretty much my field of study) It's all very interesting. horses can be so much trouble sometimes. at least they're usually worth it