Neurotic or normal - which do you think you are?

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I've just walked in the door from a late night check on my lad. He recently had colic, luckily not too seriously, but spent two nights in horsepital and earlier this evening my yo called to say they'd put him out for the night as usual but he'd been observed laying down and getting up again a couple of times. Temperature normal, heart rate normal. Yo brought him in and he started tucking into a haynet. Seemed ok but nothing to explain earlier behaviour. She went home around pm reasonably happy with him.

I couldn't have slept tonight if I hadn't gone up to check on him. Am I neurotic or would you have done the same? :o

(He seemed fine when I got there BTW, just lying down and surprised to see me!)
 
I always check mine last thing, luckily its just a walk outside, they get a late feed and hay top up, going now to see them and dog gets last stretch of her legs too:)

Not neurotic to want to make sure all is well, 12 hours without checking is a long while, I have found one with colic at midnight if not seen until 7 am the outcome may have been very different.
 
Oh I wish my two were just a walk outside, it's a twenty minute drive for me, but absolutely no way I could have left him without a late check. Unfortunately that's the only bad part about our yard, no horsey people on site at all after we've all gone home (usually about 8 ish this time of year).
 
I'd say that's normal. I'm not generally a paranoid owner, but in your shoes I'd have done the same. Ours are only round the corner, but I have been the mad woman wondering around a field with a torch at 1am before now!
 
I am lucky enough to have my yard at my house, but i have got up every hour before when i had a colic scare, in winter i would go to the stables every few hours to make sure the pipes had not frozen and if they did i would carry water down. One time they froze so bad i rouble rugged the horses and walked them at 3AM over the fields to a trough and i took a hammer and hammered it until i got to the water about 2 inches down!

So i would say im totally normal.
 
I'm also neurotic but over lameness constantly worried he will be lame and it's either curtains for him or retirement livery or similiar. We've had lameness problems before and It was awful makes you realise that these big animals are so fragile wveryte you go to the field you ever know what you are going to find.
 
So glad I'm in good company here!

Your tales of icy water make me hope against all hope that we aren't going to have the horribly low temperatures that we had last year again equi! I've been there with a hammer of my own before now! :eek:
 
I'm with you on that one too Victoria! Ever since his navicular, collateral ligament etc diagnosis I watch him like a hawk.

Think I'd better face the fact that I have an OCD problem when it comes to horses! :o
 
Neurotic in general, but in a situation like the OP's where I would do the same (or tell my yard owners to check on horse and phone me, as they live on-sight and I'm 25 miles away), totally normal.
 
Not neurotic imo, just a responsible knowledgeable owner, after my girl colicked and ended up in the dick vet, when she colicked again a few months later and was tubed, i was on livery at the time and slept in my car checking her every hour or so when i woke, it was December and i was in a sleeping bag, thankfully im only 2 mins from my stables now, but id do it again if i thought it neccessary
 
I'm definitely normal then! :)

Hubby thought I was being a bit precious about it all, not that he'd ever say not to go check but I think he thought it was slightly overkill! But I can now tell him you're all as bad as me! :)
 
I don't think of myself as neurotic, but if I have the lightest doubt in my mind about my horses health, I wouldn't be able to sleep without checking him last thing. I'm slightly more neurotic about Alf because of his hind leg problems, so do spend a lot of time thinking about how best to manage him, researching treatments/supplements and wincing when he decides to have a party in his field!
 
I am also a checker, if I suspect anything is wrong or she is super quiet I get suspicious and end up going for a check. Can't sleep otherwise.... Having just moved yards I found myself so anxious to see her in the mornings or after work - just wasn't sure she would be in her field/alive! Now on our seventh day and I realised that she has been out in her field all day and I haven't worried once whether she has got her muzzle off/jumped out/got in with the stallion. I must have settled!

I think we have all worked out that I am neurotic!
 
Normal.

I have done many a middle of the night/early morning check on my old horse because I felt it necessary. My current pony, being a native is much hardier *touch wood* but would do the same if the occassion ever arose.

Totally normam IMHO :)
 
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