Recent content by SusieT

Your dog is immobile because he is terrified. Sutures are sore . He cannot consent to that pain like a human can. The vet is acting in your dogs best interest . Why do you think the vet would put your dog at risk if it was un necessary by recommending proper treatment of the wound?

It depends on the horses- for lots that would be fine. For ones prone to chasing/kicking/protecting food it is likely to be too small. But even a 20x40 m arena is too small for those! Could you split into two or if your horses are good friends and adlib food supplied - fine

Has she been scoped? Just didn't see it there. I think a couple of years turned away would be a nice idea- it doesn't sound like rehab is helping and one wonders if time decompressing totally would be a solution to let her live a happy life?

If he is Pure ID I would consider running him on for a year or two so see what I've got as the bloodlines are quite tight.

People above say parents know how much work the two year old is. Yes. Have they thought about when their very active 3/4year old is running around and being knocked over by a dog? Will they be happy with that? Will they be happy if child having bad night and dog also having diarrhoea? What if...

Not with a barge pole. The horse is likely being worked despite being low grade lame - either buy with a plan to work up, turn out ( plenty of movement) and knowledge it may be a field ornament, or walk away

That sounds cheap - I'd bite their hand off!

So drive for it?

Thats poor. Do they not look after any first opinion?

out of interest- do you think he was with your poorly dog 24/7 for that cost - I would guess that she was alone and unsupervised a fair bit of the time which I wouldn't want to be paying for... Most vets doing this leave at x time and come back at y time and the patients are either alive or dead...

It's not right - the answer is to use the vet with the 24/7 cover on side and use them all the time - support the practice that invests in 24/7 care and the one that insists on yo yoing clients about should be not supported.

I would get her properly assessed for pain as you are both right - too much will make her sore and stiff, too little and her muscles atrophy. But a good pain relief would be much more effective at providing the best quality of life for as long as posisble.

It is a a very sad outcome. Can I ask- did you consider calling a vet when you saw your horse losing weight/with sore feet? I appreciate the yard owner was telling you one thing and I am assuming you are maybe quite a novice owner relying on yard owner which can be very hard to advocate for your...

Yes- which is a poor show really. 'I hope the industry can learn' - when you have already had a fire visit and disregarded the advice you can't call that 'learning'. Learning would be changing after your advice visit. It's not even a proper apology - 'I regret' is really I regret being caught.

I would say with three large un neutered males there is a significant chance your household is not the right house for fostering. It would need to be the right dog to fit into that. And also, if you have 3 large dogs of your own you probably don't have as much time as you think to integrate...