Widgeon
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Ah, there we go! I think it's quite normal.
Boggle- USA bound!
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sky1000
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This is so interesting and helpful about intrusive thoughts. Thank you Michen. My take on it is that our brains try to keep us safe and keep looking at alternative possible scenarios.
Michen
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Poor chap next to me on this flight, as I write a thank you card to the team at the vet practice and the tears are just pouring down my cheeks 
He looks mortified but it’s making me giggle. Really hope he doesn’t ask if I’m ok because I’ll probably start howling!!
Where’s that drinks trolley..
He looks mortified but it’s making me giggle. Really hope he doesn’t ask if I’m ok because I’ll probably start howling!!
Where’s that drinks trolley..
TPO
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Poor chap next to me on this flight, as I write a thank you card to the team at the vet practice and the tears are just pouring down my cheeks
He looks mortified but it’s making me giggle. Really hope he doesn’t ask if I’m ok because I’ll probably start howling!!
Where’s that drinks trolley..
Aww, bless. You do need to keep hydrated during these trying times
Michen
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Aww, bless. You do need to keep hydrated during these trying times
Completely agree!
I have a feeling my barn amigos may have laid a margarita station outside Boggles stable
Michen
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Bogs ultrasound is much improved! Still abnormal but unsurprising.
Vet says please definitely come get him tomorrow he’s refusing to walk anywhere and will only trot
Someone needs to tell him that he’s supposed to be all but written off.
Vet says please definitely come get him tomorrow he’s refusing to walk anywhere and will only trot
Someone needs to tell him that he’s supposed to be all but written off.
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Michen
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Oh gosh. He seems so sad. Everyone may think he seems normal but he is so far from it, I have never seen him like that. He spent the whole time pressing his nose into me and holding it there and that is so un Bog like. So thin and depressed. He’s filthy and itchy and just urgh.
He needs to come home for some serious tlc.
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Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Yes, he has lost more condition. However, he still has a shine, he is trotting everywhere and I bet when he gets home he will bounce back. Will he be allowed some small turnout? I reckon that will be the turnaround point.
Michen
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Do you think Red, I just thought he would be mentally better but he just seemed so depressed.
I intended for him to go straight out yes, he needs some fresh air.
SEL
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I'd be depressed too if I'd been ill in hospital - he needs a buck and a roll and some TLC
Michen
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Yep I think I was expecting too much because everyone told me how cheerful he was. But they don’t know him the way I do. The vet was there doing night check and he said oh he’s just sleepy I woke him up for the temp check.
No, that is not a sleepy bog. That’s a sad Bog and I could tell before i had even entered the stable.
No, that is not a sleepy bog. That’s a sad Bog and I could tell before i had even entered the stable.
palo1
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Yeah, it's really horrible when their spirits are low but I think he is just appreciating you being there and taking a moment to relax which he probably hasn't been able to properly the whole time he has been fighting in hospital. Hopefully once he gets back home, with some turnout and regular visits and help from you he will improve massively. Hopefully he will perk up muchly, very quickly! Well done Boggle-fighter.
Sandstone1
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Hopefully you get him home and that will cheer him up. He is probably fed up with all the prodding and poking he's had.
He will have missed his routine.
Like us if we are poorly it takes it out of us. Fingers crossed you get him home soon.
He will have missed his routine.
Like us if we are poorly it takes it out of us. Fingers crossed you get him home soon.
ycbm
Einstein would be proud of my Insanity...
He's been in prison feeling like shite for over two weeks, it's no wonder he's sad, he probably thinks this is going to be permanent. He'll perk up as soon as he's home.
Spotherisk
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He will feel better once home, back to his routine and with you around.
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Yes, I do think. My mare was like a woman possessed when picked up. Practically dug her way out of the stable as soon as we arrived and ran up the ramp. When I arrived, I hardly recognised her, she was so pinched. By the time she got off the wagon at home her expression had changed already. A week or two later, she was back to normal and I think it only took that long as she had a tube in her eye and wasn't allowed turnout!
Charlie-Horse, on the other hand, loved horsepital. He was reluctant to leave, had the nurses round his little hoof.
scats
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Those thoughts you’ve had are totally normal, at least to me. Honestly, I often ponder that wouldn’t it be easier if I got to the farm one day and Polly had croaked I’d like to say it’s a one off thought but it’s not!
He will cheer up once he comes home. They have no concept of what’s happening tomorrow so in his head this is life now and he’s depressed about it.
I’d like to say it’s a one off thought but it’s not!He will cheer up once he comes home. They have no concept of what’s happening tomorrow so in his head this is life now and he’s depressed about it.
Trouper
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I don't suppose we would be looking at our sparkling best after being horribly ill and confined to barracks for a couple of weeks. He's probably looking at you and thinking you don't look that great with your cold and all the worry.
Time for some home time and a convalescence of fresh air and tlc.
Time for some home time and a convalescence of fresh air and tlc.
Ceriann
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He’s been very poorly so he’s entitled to feel sorry for himself and a bit flat. Combination of poorliness, losing condition, being poked and prodded by strangers and being away from all that is familiar to him. My mare was away 5 days at horsepital for a work up -she’s quietly independent and aloof, used to travelling etc and not needy in any way. When I went to pick her up she just looked so fed up and put her head on my shoulder as if to say please don’t leave me. Home, tlc and routine and you’ll see a difference. So pleased you get him home today.
splashgirl45
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He looks lean to me not thin, yes he has lost weight which isn’t surprising as he has been through a lot . He feels depressed and will pick up once he realises he is back home and got you in his life again, don’t forget he won’t have understood why you left him with strangers , no matter how nice they are they are not his person… cheer up and try and feel positive so he feels your vibes
meleeka
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He’s been through a lot. Think how you feel, with the benefit of knowing what’s going on and then times that by 100 and imagine it was you feeling ill. I’m not surprised he’s down, he’s had his whole world taken from him. Once he gets home I predict he’ll bounce back quickly.
Annagain
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Monty looked terrible when we picked him up from horsepital after 8 days and he was only in to try to find the cause of his lameness, he wasn't even ill. The kept telling us "he's a typical TB, the weight's dropped off him due to the stress" but until his breeder got in touch with us when he was 18, we didn't even know he had any TB in him! He never looked anything like a TB until that stay. A few days at home and he picked up, and then picked up even more when he was allowed out again.
humblepie
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He will soon pick up with your care - he doesn't look that lean at all for a horse who has been through what he has been through. Glad you will soon be reunited properly.
JGC
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I think they're comparing him with other horses they see with the same pathologies, so are thinking - he's looking so bright and doing so well.
Whereas you're comparing him with normal Bog and thinking - he seems so poor and sad and depressed.
Floofball
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He will hopefully look much happier when he realises you’re picking him up tomorrow- and probably completely different this time next week. Can’t wait to see him home in his lovely new bed and outside in the fresh air 
Pinkvboots
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Yes his lost a bit condition and his gonna be depressed his been at the vet stuck in a stable been poked prodded been a pin cushion bless him, he will look completely different when home honest.
Arabi really suffered staying at the vets they had trouble getting a headcollar on him at times he would just run around the stable, he would drop so much weight I remember once walking up to him and I just burst into tears he looked awful his eyes just looked like he had had enough.
Another time I was driving into vet car park and saw my vet so jumped out to chat to him, Arabi heard my voice and I could hear him screaming hence me sobbing on my poor vet.
Once he was home he perked up really quickly and went back to being his normal self and he gained the weight easily as well.
When he was 6 he had over 80 condroids in his guttural pouch so he had 8 weeks of spending 2 days in the vets so they could remove them manually a few at a time.
He looked bloody awful at the end of the 8 weeks but he got over it and bless him he still happily loads will go anywhere you ask.
tda
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My thoughts exactly, he will bloom again once he gets home x
Upthecreek
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If you were away from everything familiar to you and your favourite person in the world, feeling physically horrendous and confined to a box without understanding why you would be pretty sad too! He has lost weight, but he looks like the spark is still there and if he’s trying to trot everywhere that is really encouraging.
misst
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He doesn't look bad. His coat is great. He's been stuck somewhere he doesn't know with people he doesn't know. He has had needles, tubes, bandages, boots - he doesn't know what is going on. He's probably a bit confused/scared rather than truely depressed.
He'll be fine when you get him home.
He'll be fine when you get him home.
w1bbler
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He doesn't understand why he is in a strange place with strange people being prodded & poked repeatedly. It's not surprising he looks a bit sad. Whilst very poorly his concentration was on survival, now he's confused & needs to go back to his familiar place & people/ horses.
Of course he looks thin, he's a fit lean competition pony that has been locked up for 2? weeks. He is losing / lost his muscle & been using all his calories to fight infection, not put on fat.
He's ready for your tlc now.
Of course he looks thin, he's a fit lean competition pony that has been locked up for 2? weeks. He is losing / lost his muscle & been using all his calories to fight infection, not put on fat.
He's ready for your tlc now.