Strangles-pony has snotty nose no temperature, bit lethargic

[peaceandquiet1]

As above, pony has been tested and first sample negative for strangles, glands seem up a little but not very obvious, eating and drinking and rather bored in isolation box rest, she is 6. Can strangles present like this, I would have expected to see more progression after nearly a week, but if anything she seems better than she was?

 

[be positive]

Not all will get full blown strangles many have some symptoms and shake it off with little intervention other than some nursing care, she may just have a virus, the glands will be up while they are working to deal with it, as she tested negative unless there is a real reason for strangles to be suspected the chances are it is a respiratory infection or virus that would benefit more from being turned out in the fresh air, although I appreciate if you are on a livery yard that may be impossible.

 

[Patterdale]

They don't all get the snot, they don't all get the abscesses, and they don't all get the glands up, but IME they ALL get the raised temperature - so I wouldn't worry if it was mine.

 

[peaceandquiet1]

Thanks for your replies. She is at home and we are going to create a turnout area so she can be outside. I am taking her out for walks every few hours. That's interesting about the temperature-it has never been up even the day she looked really ill and when the vet came she checked it, by which time the nose was discharging yellow gunk, which lasted a day or two and is now clear to milky.