Survey request - horse owner decisions

LadyGascoyne said:
Really great survey! Please do post here when you publish, I'd love to follow your work.

The only area I struggled with was the prioritisation sections. Some of them would be "not an option" for me rather than low priority.
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Finally completed survey, and thank you @LadyGascoyne for explaining my own thoughts. When I sadly had to pts my lovely 4 year old NF last year there was no way I would pass him on as a companion, he didn't "look" as if he had a problem and the temptation for some unscrupulous person to "bute up & sell on" was far too high.

Great survey and I too would love to see the results when published.
 
Vodkagirly said:
Very thought provoking. Very interesting to reflect if your making the right decisions. With a previous horse, I had a lot of improvement with joint injections. Limited with another but after a break, he is looking well at the moment, maybe its time for another work up to see if some additonal suppport would help.
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Thank you so much. It is difficult as everyone's situation is different to know what is the 'right' decision. One of mine is serviceably sound and the other paddock sound, so these decisions and discussions with professionals have been going around my head for some time!
 
bruary said:
Hello fellow horse owners (or if you've owned a horse in the past 10 years) - I have a BIG request.... do you have a spare 15-30 minutes to answer my survey on horse owner decisions? (I have approval to post this through Admin).

As part of my Master's dissertation, I've developed a survey to understand the decisions horse owners may make for horses who require maintenance treatment to be comfortable when ridden or competed, or for horses who are retired to the paddock, with or without maintenance treatment. You don't need experience of either of the above situations to take part. Your anonymity will be maintained throughout the survey.

The full details are in the post below. The survey link is: [https://allocate.monster/OYNCHVXW](https://allocate.monster/OYNCHVXW...)

You may need to open an external brower to access the survey.

Thank you for reading and as especially big thank you for participating!
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Done. There was one question that I didn’t really understand how to answer so I ticked the “prefer not to answer” box
 
Merrymoles said:
Completed and found it interesting.

The horse I focused on was my last one which had a hock injury that was missed by the first vet I used, despite extensive x-rays and nerve blocks. When it was subsequently identified by a different vet, there was too much scar tissue for successful surgery. He remained lame but the new vet was of the opinion that low level work would not cause pain or any further injury so I did begin to ride him in walk again. Unfortunately I then lost him to colic so don't know how that would have progressed in the long term.
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Thank you so much for completing it. That sounds like it was a tough time for you and your horse after doing your very best for him.
 
New Forests Rock said:
Finally completed survey, and thank you @LadyGascoyne for explaining my own thoughts. When I sadly had to pts my lovely 4 year old NF last year there was no way I would pass him on as a companion, he didn't "look" as if he had a problem and the temptation for some unscrupulous person to "bute up & sell on" was far too high.

Great survey and I too would love to see the results when published.
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Thank you so much. It is such a risk isn't it - so hard but you clearly made the right decision.
 
If only there was a clear line between field sound and not or serviceably sound or not.

Sadly over the years I've had several and they really varied over the seasons. One went down hill with hard ground in the summer but was very happy when it was muddy (lots of people commenting that "he didn't look lame")
Another was the opposite he couldn't tolerate the cold so winter was bad for him.

They can deteriorate slowly and it's very hard to spot when you see them every day. There's a good older dog checklist that scores 25-40 questions 1-5 - so you can track their actual scores over time which might be an idea.

They can have good days and bad days and judging when there are more bad days than good almost needs a spreadsheet.
 
Polos Mum said:
If only there was a clear line between field sound and not or serviceably sound or not.

Sadly over the years I've had several and they really varied over the seasons. One went down hill with hard ground in the summer but was very happy when it was muddy (lots of people commenting that "he didn't look lame")
Another was the opposite he couldn't tolerate the cold so winter was bad for him.

They can deteriorate slowly and it's very hard to spot when you see them every day. There's a good older dog checklist that scores 25-40 questions 1-5 - so you can track their actual scores over time which might be an idea.

They can have good days and bad days and judging when there are more bad days than good almost needs a spreadsheet.
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You raise a good point about the difficulty in identifying deterioration when you see them them everyday and your suggestion of a trackable checklist. The BHS do have a Quality of Life checklist, but it sounds like the older dog checklist is more detailed. Thank you.
 
Done. Had a bit of trouble with the "serviceably sound" horse: she's only been under treatment for a year, so we're still in the "rebuilding" phase. I'd say we're not going to return to the giddy heights of competition, but also, she doesn't seem to be deteriorating at the moment.
 
spookypony said:
Done. Had a bit of trouble with the "serviceably sound" horse: she's only been under treatment for a year, so we're still in the "rebuilding" phase. I'd say we're not going to return to the giddy heights of competition, but also, she doesn't seem to be deteriorating at the moment.
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Thank you.
 
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