Horse with 70% burns - Recovering

At 70 percent burns that horse must have suffered.

Horses can reason like humans can.In those days when she was in pain she wouldnt have been able to think about how it would all be over soon she also wouldnt have been able to call for a nurse or someone to up her meds :/ she'd have to show signs of pain to let her handlers know.

Id also love to no what pain killer they used in order to allow a horse that size pain relief without other serious side effects. :(

I question the sense of both owners and vets involved.

The quality of life is the most important thing in animal treatment and burns are one of the most painful injurys you can get.I hope as one poster stated that she had lost the feeling to her burn sites though I doubt that is the case,bar in the areas that needed skin grafting.

Poor poor creature.
 
SusieT do you really believe a horse with 70% burns was really back to it's normal self after 2/3 days? I would be interested in speaking to a human that's suffered that kind of catastrophic injury to find out how awful it was for them (not in a gruesome kind of way), let alone try to figure out how a helpless animal felt. Two years of recovery... that poor animal :-(
 
SusieT, I cant quite get my head around the colic scenario - again...

Suffice it to say I am quite convinced that with 70% burns to the body (that is almost the entire body mass) this poor animal would have suffered considerably. But I think we'll have to agree to disagree about that.

You are right that vets are good at recognising pain etc, but my view of vets in the US is that they are prepared to conduct more radical treatments which are rarely to the benefit of the animal (but to the benefit of their emotional owners, unfortunately).
 
Whilst I appreciate your centiments Susie - I must say I dont know how a horse could be made comfortable with such bad burns, it would not have been able to lie down or touch anything, wear a rug have heaters on it (if it couldnt wear a rug). I have had pretty bad sun burn and its awful and that is a drop in the ocean compared to this.

I wonder if the poor thing would have to have been sedated continuously? :(
 
aimeetb said:
OMG just seen this in the DailyMail, the poor thing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385489/Horses-amazing-recovery-killed-her.html

What a beautiful horse!

So glad she is getting there!

ETA - this is why I used to get so P****D OFF with stupid idiots at my old yard smoking while they were mucking out! They said oh its only a little bit of ash, it wont hurt! I would hurt you if you ever harmed my horse! The yard owner didnt want to put signs up incase it offended people!! Needless to day I moved!
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I would have to be physically restrained from inflicting actual bodily harm upon anyone I saw smoking in a stable, even outside on the square they would be in no shadow of a doubt as to my thoughts on the matter and would be at risk from being hosed down or a fire extinguisher used on them.

I used to have nightmares about a yard fire, even now the thought of it makes me feel physically sick. Having dealt with human casualties who've been burnt whilst trapped, I cannot comprehend why an owner would put their horse through it. The kindest gift we can give is an end to suffering, it should be about what is best for the horse and its quality of life once "recovered" not as someone pointed out the owners neurosis or a veterinary practices desire to make money.

I have had the privilige of meeting some fabulous vets, but also complete charletans who put the animals interests behind their own, including one who buted his horse that had a mild but quite probably recoverable tendon injury requiring box rest, but chose to thrash it round an XC course prior to the insurance companies vet coming to see it, end result catastrophic injury to tendon and horse PTS, but he got his money back from the insurance company....
 
I cant comment on this as i wasnt there and all i know is what we read , all i know is i would value the situation and how my horse was acting and vets advise before i made any decision. People with sever burns come through yes with pain I have seen horrendous cases but they live on with the scars burns and through the pain of healing.
 
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Although its awful and i would have PTS, I think we may have misunderstood. I think they mean they have burns on 70% of the body, not 70% burns, as in a big area but not as deep as 70% burns? Its hard to explain.
 
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