Summer 2008 down the pan...

For summer 08 I will have not one, but two horses on box rest *sob*

Times like today I really wonder why it is I bother
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zigzag, I don't expect you to have followed the in's and out's of my life, but having recently had my beloved mare PTS don't be so quick to judge me as being ungrateful.
 
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zigzag, I don't expect you to have followed the in's and out's of my life, but having recently had my beloved mare PTS don't be so quick to judge me as being ungrateful.

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Sorry, didn't mean it that way, feeling down myself at the moment, really missing my 3 horses I lost in December, didn't mean to offend
 
ah thats a pain, I am hoping for my first summer where pickle doesn't get anemia have him on immune system boosters and some other thing from the vet so am trying to prepare!
 
I know where you're coming from.

Today the vet has just given both my box resters the go ahead to start walking out again. One has been resting since 2 November last year and the other since 22 January this year. The longest rested one did have a couple of weeks in work earlier so fingers crossed this time we'll actually manage to get them properly working.
 
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I know where you're coming from.

Today the vet has just given both my box resters the go ahead to start walking out again. One has been resting since 2 November last year and the other since 22 January this year. The longest rested one did have a couple of weeks in work earlier so fingers crossed this time we'll actually manage to get them properly working.

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What did they do to themselves??
 
I shouldn't have taken offence, but it just seems like one knock after another at the moment, so I am perhaps just more sensitive than usual at a time when I should be growing myself some rhino skin!

I lost Cybele in October - and at the moment I'm not finding the 'time is a great healer' cliche to be helping at all, and it sounds like you are in the same boat
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Boo is in for damage to the DDFT in her near hind. Prior to doing that she was about to go in for a full 'poor performance' investigation as I am not 100% satisfied that something is not causing her pain, so now am looking at 3 months rest and then bringing her back into work so that we can investigate the problems that we were about to uncover, which will undoubtedly mean more rest.....

Rage is having Kissing Spine surgery in the next week or so, so is looking at 3months rest and rehab, and then possibly doing it all over again for a second KS op as his impingements are so extensive
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Jessrulesdaworld - good luck with Pickle! This summer was supposed to be Boo's first competitive season, we (me AND her!) have been collectively plagued with problems so I was really looking forward to finally making a proper start to her career this summer - obviously I shouldn't have let her know that I had purchased day tickets for her first BE outing!
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Jemima_too - gosh, you must be exhausted and really depressed after all that time! Hope walking out goes uneventfully
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Oh chick, ((Big Hug))
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Will you still be at any tourneys this season? Nothing can put a smile on your face like a glass of Super_Pimm's!
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That sucks
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There is not an awful lot I can say, it is going to be hard work and depressing but always bear in mind that you will have happy, healthy horses at the end of it all!

Plus with all that mucking out, the time will go quickly!
 
O you poor thing..I would say 70% of the time my horses are unrideable for one reason or another...got a new one because horse is lame and out for another few months now this one is out of work! ahhh
 
Big mare fell in the field when we'd had her just under two weeks, just cantering round by herself, and ruptured her peroneus tertius, was in the 23.4% of horses that come back into work from that injury and then kicked her stable and damaged her stifle. Lovely Flynn who came from henryhorn as the mare's standin was being an arse loading and dropped a leg off the ramp. He only dropped about 10 inches but pulled a ligament at L4 and took a chunk of bone off the spinous process to boot! I'd been SO lucky up until then and had two freak accidents coinciding with our move from ponies to horses.

Hope your two recover smoothly. I have had various chats recently about KS and the verdict seems now that provided the rehab is carried out meticulously and they are kept fit and well-muscled the operation is a HUGE success. HOpe it proves so in your case.
 
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I really feel for you...... Having had a horse that was destined for the scrap heap 18m ago, I feel blessed that I have been able to keep him in work.

I really feel for you and the other members who have lost their horses, or who are enduring illness or injury
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It makes me realise how lucky I have been. :humble:!!
 
Thanks for all the vibes etc everyone, they are appreciated, as ever!
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I could never be accused of being an owner that wraps their horses in cotton wool, but I do my da*n hardest to make sure they are cared for, trained and fittened to the best of my ability to avoid injury.... and it gets me nowhere!
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Yet I can think so so many people who treat their horses with just no respect, take risks all the time and yet nothing bad ever happens to them!!!

Jemima - your two had better not give Boo anymore ideas for freak injuries!
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Really pleased they are on the mend after all that though, wishing you loads of luck that they continue to improve (and stay sound!)
 
You have my sympathy. Life with horses can be very unfair. I took my mare to the Animal Health Trust today because she's been lame for ages and her feet won't improve and the vets and farriers don't know what to do with her. My old boy went down there for similar reasons just over twelve months ago and didn't come back.
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I'm not holding out much hope of doing any competing this year but I'll be happy if they find something that they can treat and will get better one day. At least she would make a lovely brood mare. I really hope your horse isn't out of action for too long.
 
Poor you, I know how you feel, mine has strangles and had a big scare when he developed a complication
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And now he is looking better the yard will still be in isolation for a while. BUT there is always next year, just means yet another winter of schooling and hoping that next summer is better
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Hope yours will be on the mend soon x
 
I'm hoping to be able to do something with mine this summer - last year was the first summer where mare wasn't on box rest and things were looking up (went to first show) then someone decided to drown Tewkesbury and my mare ended up with a respitory infection caused by all the wet
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I do hope you guys don't take this the wrong way, it's late and I'm tired, so my english is poor...

but why ever do you stick with horses who are forever on box rest? It's no life for you, and it's no life for them!

I'm not doubting you do your best for your horses, but they're grazing animals, surely box rest becomes cruel after a point?
 
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