The "Special Needs" Horse!

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I got to thinking when I owed my TB cross mare which I owned for 12 years,the last 4 I spent putting her back together,like two busted eyelids,DJD in both hinds and ringbone in the fronts, endless lameness and then to boot the mare managed to flick herself over a fence and damage a eyelid that had previous been stitched as she had been given the all clear to go out........and after I had been called from work on a Saturday and with good friends and my vet, her head was wrapped up like a "mummies" I had to sit with her untill transport arrived to take us to the vets to be operated on by a vet that specialised in eyes............and as I sat there thinking "Why me!" one of the other owners said "God she is so Special Needs that horse of yours!".......but I learnt alot from her and if a horse has a problem or accident I find myself pretty laid back about it.......and deal with it , don't go into blind panic......have you owned a accident prone or major problem horse......just curious me

 

[squirrelc17]

My mare is like that. my vet says he thinks she has a suicide wish.

Been caught in fencing 3 times. tearing a tendon at one point. kicked badly in the stifle.

then to top it all of in october 05 she decided to rear over backweards on the lunge. smack her head. get a small stone in above her eye. swelling on brain meant she couldn't balance. she fitted. crawled around. fell through wooden posrt and rail fencing. 6 inch nail in her side. punctured her lung, fell theough brick wall. fell onto road 3 times. fell down ditch. fell down back into strainer post. struggled and got caught up in fencing before collapsing.

before anyone ask yes she is still aslive and doing amazingly. has slight DJD in hocks and sacro-iliac joint and kissing spine but other wise fine.

don;t ask me how, it was the worst day of my life.

so basically yes i know a horse like that too. i alwyas seem to have bad luck with my horses!!!

 

[0ldmare]

My lovely show hack was exactly the same. She died a few years ago, but my bank balance has barely recovered. She managed to roll underneath the post and rails and get stuck (so much for P&R being safe...). Then got laminitis from the stress of rolling under the fence. Eventually recovered, got COPD. Then finally had an underactive Thyroid that required 27 Thyroxine pills per day. She finally died of Kidney failure (after a long uninsured spell at the Vets - nobody would insure her in the end!!) The fortune I spent on that mare doesnt bear thinking about, but I adored her so it didnt matter.

 

[elliefiz]

Oh yeah!!ive a 14.2 pony only a 5year old but the silliest horse ive ever met!!
Whenever i go into the stable to her i have to check her from head to toe because she will usually have acquired a mysterious injury overnight!!in the past few months she has put a huge gash in her shoulder ripping through her two rugs in the process and needed two layers of stitches it was so deep though she was in her stable with nothing remotely sharp-complete mystery!!then she was tied to side of lorry at competition tried to scratch her ears using her hind leg and cut her head open with one of her studs!!more stitches!!then she developed a mysterious rash which set us all into a panic because it looked like ring worm had the characteristics of ring worm yet blood tests and skin samples confirmed it wasnt!!thsi set off a whole spate of tests and quarantining the pony and everything came back clear-complete mystery! she is definitely special needs- she rolls into fences, falls over jumps while turned out in arena, anything stupid she do il guarantee she will have done it!!

 

[charlie76]

My horse that was PTS last year from navicular was always in the wars. He was once tied to a piece of string on a ring outside his stable (BHS correct way and all that...) he spooked at a brushing boot that I had put on the floor and pulled back pulling a large expanse of the front of the stable with him- nails and all. He managed to run through the post and rail fencing and gallop round the field 3 times with this attached to him causing numerous wounds. He then did the same thing 6 months later! I then invested ins ome of those fly free tie up loops!
Not content with that he then rolled in the field and got himself wedged under the fence.

The final incident was when I was riding him, a jogging ran up the road be hind him, he shot forward and slipped up casuing two great gashes on the front of his fetlocks!
Should of guessed he'd be doomed!