Emmak12
Active Member
(sorry for the v long post, it is a long story and every detail prob needs taking into account! lol)
My mare has has been through a very nasty trailor accident last April 2010 and ripped her side off quite literally. Anyway, she recovered, much to the vets amazement and is doing very well. To cut long story short, she hasnt been the same since, she prats around going to the field, and once in the field wants to come back in after a few hours, even in the summer, and i have to ensure i am the first to get to the yard pm as she freaks out if she not the first to come in. She is not affectionate anymore, will pull faces at me and other ppl and horses.
However, in October last year she bit the yard manager on the back, very violently, no warning, leaned over her stable door and grabbed her on the back at the shoulder and dragged her into the stable door.
Obviously i was devastated as this is completely not normal, but the physio was coming out in the next few days so hoped she would be able to explain, between the attack and the physio coming out i rode her out on a hack and she threw me off, bucked and reared, dragged me along untill i managed to unhoock my foot from the stirup and then gallopped off down the rd! Now i have owned her for 3 yrs and she have NEVER done anything remotely like this before! Anyway physio came out and said she has a very sore back, so got vet out and put her on bute for 10 days and rested her.
After this physio came back and said she feels really good. So can carry on riding, but just straight lines, no circles etc, take it very slow, which i was already doing.
Since then, physio has been out again and she was extremely pleased with her, no problems in her back, little pain in withers but not a massive deal. Said i could start to dtep it up a bit, lessons again, little canters etc.
So i have been doing so for the last month, when couple of weeks ago she was in her stable, the horse next door was tied up outside his stable and she just launched at him and bit him to the point he fell onto the concrete. Now i didnt see it actually happen but his owner says that there was no warning, she just randomly launced at him.
Later that day, after she had chilled out for a bit, i took her for a walk inhand up the track, as i usually do when no turn out. Anyway, all of a sudden out of no where, she switched and startded, backing up, spinnning round, leaping in the air, snorting. There was nothing to spook at as far as im aware. Managed to get her back to stable block, where she cantered into her stable, i had to slam the door behind her! 10 mins later it wa like it never happened! she was completly fine!
Now, i know this isnt normal behaviour so contacted the vets, had a long chat and they said it may be pain related like last time she had back pain. so do 10 days bute and rest! A few days later same vet was on the yard so asked him if he could look at her. he did flexion tests and found lameness in 3 legs and very painful withers.
She he said might try regumate to calm her and x-rays to see if kissing spines!
I have spoken to my lecturer who is a vet and she has said that it could be ovarian tumors so i should get them to scan her ovaries!
since then she got cast in her stable which wont help in diagnosing this, so vet said continue on bute for further 2 weeks and start riding and see if she is any better!
i just wondered if any one has any ideas of what is going on?? or if anyone has had horses with kissing spines or ovarian tumors?
The problem is we dont know what she could of done in the accident apart from the visual wounds! And if she has KS or OT then surgery is the only option, but she is 17 and will not load, so cant do surgery anyway!
Im just freaking out a bit!
My mare has has been through a very nasty trailor accident last April 2010 and ripped her side off quite literally. Anyway, she recovered, much to the vets amazement and is doing very well. To cut long story short, she hasnt been the same since, she prats around going to the field, and once in the field wants to come back in after a few hours, even in the summer, and i have to ensure i am the first to get to the yard pm as she freaks out if she not the first to come in. She is not affectionate anymore, will pull faces at me and other ppl and horses.
However, in October last year she bit the yard manager on the back, very violently, no warning, leaned over her stable door and grabbed her on the back at the shoulder and dragged her into the stable door.
Obviously i was devastated as this is completely not normal, but the physio was coming out in the next few days so hoped she would be able to explain, between the attack and the physio coming out i rode her out on a hack and she threw me off, bucked and reared, dragged me along untill i managed to unhoock my foot from the stirup and then gallopped off down the rd! Now i have owned her for 3 yrs and she have NEVER done anything remotely like this before! Anyway physio came out and said she has a very sore back, so got vet out and put her on bute for 10 days and rested her.
After this physio came back and said she feels really good. So can carry on riding, but just straight lines, no circles etc, take it very slow, which i was already doing.
Since then, physio has been out again and she was extremely pleased with her, no problems in her back, little pain in withers but not a massive deal. Said i could start to dtep it up a bit, lessons again, little canters etc.
So i have been doing so for the last month, when couple of weeks ago she was in her stable, the horse next door was tied up outside his stable and she just launched at him and bit him to the point he fell onto the concrete. Now i didnt see it actually happen but his owner says that there was no warning, she just randomly launced at him.
Later that day, after she had chilled out for a bit, i took her for a walk inhand up the track, as i usually do when no turn out. Anyway, all of a sudden out of no where, she switched and startded, backing up, spinnning round, leaping in the air, snorting. There was nothing to spook at as far as im aware. Managed to get her back to stable block, where she cantered into her stable, i had to slam the door behind her! 10 mins later it wa like it never happened! she was completly fine!
Now, i know this isnt normal behaviour so contacted the vets, had a long chat and they said it may be pain related like last time she had back pain. so do 10 days bute and rest! A few days later same vet was on the yard so asked him if he could look at her. he did flexion tests and found lameness in 3 legs and very painful withers.
She he said might try regumate to calm her and x-rays to see if kissing spines!
I have spoken to my lecturer who is a vet and she has said that it could be ovarian tumors so i should get them to scan her ovaries!
since then she got cast in her stable which wont help in diagnosing this, so vet said continue on bute for further 2 weeks and start riding and see if she is any better!
i just wondered if any one has any ideas of what is going on?? or if anyone has had horses with kissing spines or ovarian tumors?
The problem is we dont know what she could of done in the accident apart from the visual wounds! And if she has KS or OT then surgery is the only option, but she is 17 and will not load, so cant do surgery anyway!
Im just freaking out a bit!
