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yasmindimick

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Hi, we were just wondering if anyone could help.
We owned a fantastic 138cm JA pony for 8 years and just two weeks ago sold her. Throughout the entire time we had her, she has NEVER once been lame, sick or sorry, except for an occasional cold/cough in the winter which most ponies experience at some point in their life!! Anyway, after my daughter came out of Juniors (Dec '09)we decided to sell her because, although she is 17, she genuinely rides like a 6 year old and is able to compete still. After rejecting lots of potential buyers because we didnt find them good enough, we eventually found a perfect family!! Meg was sold almost three weeks ago now and the new owners have been calling us to say that every day, she is having a very minor nose bleed. Is it possible that this could be stress at losing my daughter as they had an incredibly strong bond (after 8 years!!!) and the vet cannot find anything else wrong with her! Does anyone know of any other similar cases? Please help!!!!
 
i am not medically trained but a bond can be a strong one.
knew a horse that everytime the owner left the yard it got colic.
my dog if i leave him wont eat until i get back.
i am sorry this is probably not very helpful but it does sound like she is missing your daughter.
 


Stress can come out in all sort of ways - maybe using rescue remedy (3 sprays in the mouth 3 X a day - from Boots) may help.

Hope it works out.
 
A single nose bleed is often nothing serious, but if the pony is having a nose bleed every day for the last three weeks it will need to be investigated properly as there could be a serious underlying cause. Potential causes for nose bleeds are gutteral pouch mycosis, ethmoidal haematomas, and less commonly tumours.

Has the pony been scoped?
 
Is the nosebleed coming from one or both nostrils?

Often blood coming from one can simply be caused by sneezing (have they perhaps changed her bedding, haylage to hay etc). However in my boy's case, the fact that it kept recurring was a sign of leukaemia (no platelets to clot).

If the nose bleeds are from both nostrils, this could be an indication of guttoral pouch mycosis or something else sinister.

Have they had her scoped. Bloods done?
 
much more likely to be a guttural pouch infection, or otherwise perhaps polyps in the windpipe.. i had a horse who had occasional light nosebleeds and this was the cause. the former can be diagnosed by blood tests i think the latter by camera-on-pipe-up-nose thing (can't remember what it's called, sorry!)
 
The pony needs scoping and fast. She may have guttural pouch mycosis - caused by the aspergillus fungus entering the gp and colonising. The carotid artery passes just outside both gp's and if the fungus rots through the lining of the gp the pony could suffer a catastrophic bleed. Very serious, advise them to get her to the vet, and wonder why they haven't already.

What a shame you had to let her go. Hope she gets through whatever is causing the problem.
 
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