jewls-wright
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We bought a pony last September for my daughter in February the pony wasn't really going right in the school, she wouldn't canter or jump and we wondered whether she had pulled a muscle in her neck as around her braciocephalic muscle it was protruding. My daughter didn't ride her for 5 weeks while we waited for a chiropractor. When they came out, they did some soft tissue work and they said that we could ride her in light work. On the second time of riding her (which was only in walk) she looked lame in her hind leg. We then called the vet and they agreed she was lame and so we booked her in for a lame assessment however on the day she wasn't lame enough unridden but agreed she was intermittently lame in her hind legs when ridden but didn't have any light enough riders at the vets to do the nerve block test. They said to put back shoes on and do a saddle fit, they said we could ride in light work and see how she goes that was in April. My daughter rode her twice once she was fine (still looked lame) going out but the second time we couldn't get her to go forward at all so left it as we didn't know whether she was hurting or whether she was being lazy (she is very lazy). She hasn't been ridden really since February but still looks lame and stiff in her back end. She can't really turn her body to the right. She is booked into a vet hospital now for a diagnosis.
Has anyone had anything similar and if so did it resolve itself? I'm wondering if it is something serious as it hasn't resolved itself after so long.
I don't have loss of use on my insurance policy because I couldn't face having her put down just because she couldn't be ridden. If she can't be ridden in future do you think that someone would own her as a companion with lameness. If it was my horse I would keep her as a non ridden but it's my daughter's pony and she just wants to ride and I can't afford to do that and keep the pony as we don't have our own land. This was our first pony and I feel so emotional about it that if she can't be ridden then we won't get another one for a few years as I couldn't face it!
Has anyone had anything similar and if so did it resolve itself? I'm wondering if it is something serious as it hasn't resolved itself after so long.
I don't have loss of use on my insurance policy because I couldn't face having her put down just because she couldn't be ridden. If she can't be ridden in future do you think that someone would own her as a companion with lameness. If it was my horse I would keep her as a non ridden but it's my daughter's pony and she just wants to ride and I can't afford to do that and keep the pony as we don't have our own land. This was our first pony and I feel so emotional about it that if she can't be ridden then we won't get another one for a few years as I couldn't face it!
