Dont know who to be angry with :(

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i had the dentist out for taz today and turns out he is only about to turn five rather than about to turn 7 :O he got done before i got him with his old owners and on the document that was passed on to me it said he was already five,

so heres me im the idot ive had him almost two years yes he's had his teeth done before but she never said much said his age on his passport was right so nothing to worry about women i had out today has been doing teeth for over twenty years so im not going to squabble with her

just makes me sick to think i bought him as a three year old who had been working in scotland for over a year and had beeen commonriding and hunting and then he came to me and done a few of the same and dressage and schooling.

I just feel so bad to have pushed him so much thinking he is older than what he is. Oh and the lady who done him today is a qualified dentist and a quilified vet she done both ONE after the other and comes very highly reccommended

I feel really annoyed to the guy who sold him to me as he used to be a really close family friend up until recently but he would have had to have taz down as four to be covered by the riding school insurance
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have a big chocolate brownie if you get this far i'll certainly be having lots
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are you sure your dentist is correct?

i find it much easier to believe that the dentist could be wrong than a close family friend has lied about his age and that he was broken before he was a 2yro.
 
yeah im sure the dentist is she's been doing her job for over twenty years and the close family friend well i wouldnt say he's always truthful about the horses he sells on they only leave the riding school if something isnt 100% behaviour wise or if the insurance is onto him
 
well he got him from ireland and told me when i bought him that he was five and had been working at the riding school for a year which i know is true s i had been there for over 4 years helping when taz came up and i bought him after riding him for a year while there
 
A dentist declared confidently that my horse was rising 3 when in fact he was 5! I had to put him right as I'd had the horse since he was 6 months old!
There can be some confusion with these things.
 
Hmmm as budatiger says it's not an exact science aging but at that age u can be pretty certain altho there are always exceptions to the rules! Did she tell u what lead her to believe he was younger? Does he have baby teeth still or something? Not disagreeing but out of interest wondered what led her to think this.
 
I'd be inclined to believe that he is 7. If the person you bought himfrom , who you trusted, said he was the age he was and the dentists since have confirmed this, then what makes you think this new dentist has got it right? My own dentist who is very good and my own equine vet, have both told me that ageing horses is very difficult and it is very easy to get it wrong at any age. When ageing my horses, they both came up with different ages! Luckily, I know their ages so it didn't matter at all.
 
My dentist said one of our horses was 3 yrs younger than it was - however the previous owner had had him from birth so we had exact dates.
 
If you bought him as a 'three' year old and had been riding him for a year beforehand then this would mean he'd have been 2 when you started riding him (alegedly) and so 2 (presumably)when he was broken, which sounds far too young. Surely the dentist must have made a mistake, as others say they do get it wrong. Do you have any photos of taz when you first met him, or can you remember how he looked? Two year olds generally look it, they tend to still be quite leggy and not filled out yet, they don't look like mature horses, so surely you, or someone would have noticed if he really were this age when first being ridden? Has he grown alot since you got him? Does the man you got him from have a reputation for backing horses early?
 
I have had vets and dentists tell me that some of my ponies were not the age I said they were, according to the experts they were either older or younger. Considering I had bred them and actually seen them born I no longer have blind faith in an experts opinion re age.
 
I've had a second opinion as the dentist who was out last year said he was definately not six as they start getting a tooth through that they get when their seven i cant remember what sh called it but she said if he was over six there would be signs of it coming through and the dentist i had out yesterday said there was still no sign of any hook on his upper teeth which he should get at seven and she says it looks as if he is still waiting to lose two of his baby teeth in the middle for adult ones to come in which should be expected by seven.
she did also say that ( the woman i had out yesterday) one of his incisor teeth isnt fully through yet which should be through by the age of five.
just copied most of this from the notes that she left me
 
I really would take this with a pinch of salt- I've had a few horses that the dentist said that they *couldv'e* been a year or 2 younger- they were also around the age of 5-7 and they had what is known as immature teeth.

But because nearly all mine tend to be weathherby's registered and micropshipped and DNA tested, there is absolutely no way that they couldv'e been an age other than what was said in the passport.

It is common for them to have immature teeth at this age and they can show teeth that are either 18 months younger or older.

Your dentist should not have scared you like that!
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Absolutely, it is not an exact science, and some horses do mature later than others. Just look at children in a primary class, some have full adult teeth by 8 and some have only lost 1 tooth...it happens
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