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Vets can recommend but they can't enforce. Which causes them a lot of stress and sadness at times. It's always the owner's call.

I do find myself rather offended by this statement. I would be OK with it if you had said 'some vets' or 'a vet I have experienced did'...

Rang my vets and they haven't got anyone available to come to me, did their best to persuade me to take her in which I flatly refused...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1461088637772212 someone who can ride a horse in balance, with clean changes, and a neck rope.

I couldn't do it. I lost a big horse to laminitis (secondary to a horrible abscess). The vet did vaguely mention clogs, which my...

For me, this. The likely outcome of a treatment is almost a secondary consideration after the extent/duration of a treatment. The horse...

I had a similar (ish) situation with my horse, though it wasn't laminitis. He was in excruciating and progressing pain with the...

It wasnt necessary for him to survive at all. And doing all that was obscene. I find more and more that vets will not call time and...

I think putting any horse through an extensive and extended rehab for laminitis where it cannot properly weight bare is cruel even if it...

Not her usual picturesque leaping but she’s so happy walking up the road and back.

I think it's a great idea, because you are doing it for her benefit. Not a mare, but my 20 year old comes into and out of work. I just...

Thank you for all of your comments, it is all a lot to take in but I will definitely consider speaking to them to give some feedback...

I have spoken to vet this morning and her final EMS test was completely normal, meaning she is a completely atypical case, and while I...

Let's not be too hard on the poster. She is probably very emotional, losing her horse and possibly feeling guilty of "should I have...

I was advised against padding the feet and that her small flake shavings would ball in her feet. The false sole has completely come away...