Lucky Snowball
Well-Known Member
So sorry you’re having rotten luck. Maybe get some ‘jobs’ done so that when he’s mended you have more time to ride. Good luck.
So sorry you’re having rotten luck. Maybe get some ‘jobs’ done so that when he’s mended you have more time to ride. Good luck.
I don't think it's a pat on the back I need @PurBee it's an intervention!
I lost a horse each year 2008, 2009 and 2010. I sold the only horse I've ever sold in 2009 and he died 3mths later in his new owner's field, so he wasn't mine but it was still upsetting. Had two pts the same day 2016 and thst was after 6yrs of my TB dumbfounded vets, exhausting insurance, two surgeries and the practice who vet checked him while I had him on a pre purchase trial lying and changing his record. Then last year lost a horse out of the blue to severe cellulitis after doing literally everything possible for 5wks to try to get him better. His half hourly walks through snow drifts and round the clock nursing was all documented on here at the time ? I thought I'd finally broken the curse with this horse but looking back there has been quite a lot of "stuff" that happened with him too. It hadn't been as bad as the TBs so hasn't registered the same, until this year of calamity.
Like I said a complete pity party. Lots of people have loads worse to contend with. Just needed a moan and a wallow ?
Nooo, I had no idea you had lost your mule. I/m so sorry.If it's any consolation, my 5yr old tried to amputate his own leg on the fence 4 weeks ago. He did a more thorough job than yours, nearly bled to death and had to have the joint flushed under general and is supposed to be on box rest for 6 weeks but I've given up and he's out in a small pen. This happened a week after I lost my dear little mule, also aged 5
I don’t have any photos of the original wound as was in too much of a panic.
Good luck with your latest recovery!
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Can’t ‘like’ that post, what a horrible turn of eventsIf it's any consolation, my 5yr old tried to amputate his own leg on the fence 4 weeks ago. He did a more thorough job than yours, nearly bled to death and had to have the joint flushed under general and is supposed to be on box rest for 6 weeks but I've given up and he's out in a small pen. This happened a week after I lost my dear little mule, also aged 5
I don’t have any photos of the original wound as was in too much of a panic.
Good luck with your latest recovery!
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I think it says a lot that you have kept going through event after event with horses
That I'm a slow learner that can't take a hint?!? I mean the universe has been dropping some clangers yet still I persevere ?
In all seriousness he is my last. The penny has finally dropped!
Mine did that last new years day ffs of all days!So sorry you’re having a rough time at the moment. I’ve just had a £3k vet bill and the last few years have been pretty hellish, once again, with poorly horses so I really feel your pain.
FWIW, Tobi had to have a wound stapled a few years ago, bigger than that. He fell over his own feet getting up from a roll and did it with his own shoe. He had a small bandage on top that I could change and the vet said chuck him out as normal in the driest field you have (it was winter).
Healed fine and he was fine. Just in case you get to the point that you think you need to turn him out, I reckon he will be fine.
I’ve just caught up TPO….blummin heck…go outside and do some “cosmic ordering”..look at those stars in the universe and ask for exactly what you want..horses that don’t self harm…lottery win….job offer in the Southern Hemisphere…and I ll add my thoughts too for pony to rapidly heal with minimum of aggro for you…