Hugely p***ed off! Laminitis update on Lady

[tabithakat64]

Lady had her x-rays done on Friday and I've just spoken to the vet to get the results. It turns out Lady has had severe laminitis in the past, enough to cause some Pedal (sp) bone roatation and also some graining of the pedal bone in both front feet.
Lady has been a fatty for several years and is currently the slimmest she's ever been, she's not fed hard feed and has her grazing restricted (she wears a muzzle). (The vet assured me she would have been hoping lame to the point of not being able to move, so there is no way I would have missed it)
I am certain she has never had laminitis whilst she's been with me as she has never been lame and my farrier checks her feet for 'changes' every time she's been shod.
Now onto what is making me angry, as some of you know Lady is a rescue pony who I got from a sanctury ten years ago. She was very underweight despite having been there for three years and they weren't completely truthful about her ridden and behavioural problems. So I wondering if they kept her so thin because she had laminitis with them?!

If so surely they should have made me aware of this?

Do I ring them to make them aware of what is going on and ask if she had laminitis whilst she was there? (She's on permenant(sp) loan and I have no contact with the sanctury).
Would something like this have been picked up when she had her initial veterinary assesment upon arrival at the sanctury?

 

[tabithakat64]

Sorry my spelling is so c**p, I clearly can't spell when I'm angry.

 

[kerilli]

if she was very underweight when she came from them, i'd be very inclined to believe that there was a reason for it... i.e. they knew about the history of laminitis.
very very bad if so, because they should have told you so you knew to keep her off lush grass etc. i think i'd ring and ask the question, but wait until you've calmed down a lot... poor mare, lucky she's got you.