Can horses tell when it's Sunday?

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Sorry, just need to let this out - ARGH!

Just had vet out to Maiden, this time colic. Three weeks ago she choked badly (she has a choke problem and can't eat hay or long grass, and sometimes her soupy dinner gets stuck... somehow!) She coked badly in April and had a month on steroids and multiple call-outs, and chokes intermittently in between. She's also been lame for two months (has old tendon injury but this looks different). In the five years we've had her, she's had choke, colic, lameness (including torn tendon), nosebleeds, an eye infection... anything else? One vet or another has seen her at least twice a year in the last five. That's not including routine jabs!

But the thing that REALLY gets me, is WHY oh why do they always do it on a Sunday?! :rolleyes: Anyone else's always have perfect timing?? Or is mine just special?! :o
 
My girl does tend to have quite a few colic issues, but they always seem to be ;
Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
New years Day
Or any other day of the week as long as its after five, so I know where you are coming from. I do hope your horse get better soon x
 
Nitty is very good at waiting for Sunday or if it HAS to be a weekday waiting until after 7. :rolleyes:

I hope you're all fixed soon!
 
Mine has thrown an abcess and needed stitches on the weekend before! Oh and got some odd hiccup thing too. With the choke though is there not like a hobday op they can do for her? Just being curious I have no idea but friend had a horse that choked a lot and was advised an op, she couldnt do it as horse was not insured :)
 
Snowysadude - I reckon the choke is probably being caused by a melanoma (though my vet says she's too young for melanomas, to which I say "pah" as she's 15 and prime age!) so no, there's not really anything we can do. She is a lot better on sloppy food though so we are going down the management route and are separating her from her friend and feeding her "special hay" (soaked alfalfa mixed with short chopped hay, with plenty of water on top) and are just generally being careful. We could have her 'scoped again (did two or three years ago and found nothing) but we can't afford it, really.

Thanks for the well wishes, and for reassuring me that it's not just mine who can tell what time it is and what day of the week! :D
 
It's definitely not just yours!
We've had colic, injury, heart attack, even emergency pts on Sunday over the years, those horses and dogs which have managed to avoid Sunday evening have managed to be ill on Christmas Day (that was actually the dog's heart attack) and Bank Holiday Mondays. We even went through a phase where we had to have 2 completely separate callouts each Bank Holiday weekend!
What's the point of being ill if you can't maximise the cost?
 
Of course they can. ;) :rolleyes:

Sidebar to that:
A few years ago I had occasion to be visiting the Yeguada Militar - the Military Stud facilities in Jerez de la Frontera (my hometown).

A friend was a member of their showjumping team, and we were wandering around the yard, looking at the horses. Plenty of horses - a mixture there of showjumpers and their well known PREs (purebred spanish).

It is a military establishment, and runs on a definite timetable. We broke for tea at 1100, but as I had to leave early, we finished up quickly.

Back for one more look - to find all the horses lying down.

Oh yes, my friend tells me, they all lie down at tea time, and at 3.00pm when the yard closes down, they all have a siesta.
 
I think mine times her Sunday by the day I turn up - so if, for example, I turn up on a Bank Holiday Monday (as in this morning), she finds cause to be colicky again by lunchtime and need the vet AGAIN :rolleyes:

Any time I turn up = expensive vet time! Maybe that's telling me something?!
 
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