Lintel
Well-Known Member
I realise that no one can tell me what to do but I would just like to be able to write this all down and perhaps get opinions, stories or options from others as it has helped before!
I have a little WHW rescue shetland who is awfully lame again.
He has Cushings, is ridiculously sensitive to grass, arthritis through his back end and a real aversion to the vet/needles/other people etc.
Keeping him in, he is stiff, sweats up is unhappy.
In the hard standing(soft rubber!) he looks over the fence desperate to get out on the grass.
Out in the (poor and fairly non existent) grass his is a happy wee man but is then the totally lame from laminitis beginning to flare.
He is a rascal with his painkillers and his prascend but I manage to get them into him through various and different means each day! He is estimated at 20, not exactly ancient but we don’t know his last history other than the 7 year between WHW/myself.
Am I missing a trick somewhere here?
I don’t want him having a miserable life I would rather PTS but equally I don’t want him missing out on the rest of his life due to my mis-management possibly?
At the moment he is in a deep bed at nighttime with soaked hay and has a couple of hours daytime on the little grass we have and the rest of the time in the rubber area with his soaked hay, he always has his buddy Hipo with him. He also wears hoof boots on the front as someone had suggested here before for him(thank you!)
Recent bloods showed his levels were perfect and no other abnormalities, teeth and jags were done but he requires IM sedation even to get near him to properly sedate then jag.. he is some chap!!
I have a little WHW rescue shetland who is awfully lame again.
He has Cushings, is ridiculously sensitive to grass, arthritis through his back end and a real aversion to the vet/needles/other people etc.
Keeping him in, he is stiff, sweats up is unhappy.
In the hard standing(soft rubber!) he looks over the fence desperate to get out on the grass.
Out in the (poor and fairly non existent) grass his is a happy wee man but is then the totally lame from laminitis beginning to flare.
He is a rascal with his painkillers and his prascend but I manage to get them into him through various and different means each day! He is estimated at 20, not exactly ancient but we don’t know his last history other than the 7 year between WHW/myself.
Am I missing a trick somewhere here?
I don’t want him having a miserable life I would rather PTS but equally I don’t want him missing out on the rest of his life due to my mis-management possibly?
At the moment he is in a deep bed at nighttime with soaked hay and has a couple of hours daytime on the little grass we have and the rest of the time in the rubber area with his soaked hay, he always has his buddy Hipo with him. He also wears hoof boots on the front as someone had suggested here before for him(thank you!)
Recent bloods showed his levels were perfect and no other abnormalities, teeth and jags were done but he requires IM sedation even to get near him to properly sedate then jag.. he is some chap!!