Derogatory term for Laminitis … does anyone else feel like this?

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I honestly can't see lami/lammi is derogatory. If someone referred to laminitis as 'fat horse/ignorant owner diease', that might be considered derogatory. I think your farrier is a bit sensitive...

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sensitive doesn't even come close!!! (he used to be my farrier too!)
 
Verbally I would not say lami/lammi, but written, I would rather see it than laminitis spelt incorrectly. My mare had it and it was stress induced from a back injury caused by poachers.
 
I lost a horse to laminitis (cushings related). Can't say I particularly object to people shortening it to 'lami' but what really irritates me is people who spell it 'laminitus'!
 
Ebbo - I really do not think that everyone knows what it can do to a horse
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... and I would not want any owner to find out by being faced with it.

Sooty - but as you know it is not just 'fat' horses that get it, there a many triggers to Laminitis
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I think I know where my farrier was coming from .... he had some owners calling him saying that their horse 'had got a touch of Lammi' as if it was a 'normal' everyday occurance
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I think I know where my farrier was coming from .... he had some owners calling him saying that their horse 'had got a touch of Lammi' as if it was a 'normal' everyday occurance
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[/ QUOTE ] Ahhhhh ... that's slightly difference though - it would be just as bad if they said their horse had got a touch of laminitis'. Nothing to do with the abbreviation of the word, but a trivialisation of the condition because they think that 'a touch' of it is not serious.

As a farrier's wife myself, I speak to quite a few people on the phone regarding their laminitics - I must say it is frightening how little knowledge even some experienced horse owners have about the condition.
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