UPDATE : ''what do i do? (the hard to catch mare story)''

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For those who know the story here's a little update. She has been coming in like a little angel for the past 2 days now. Today, the dentist came to do all their teeth, she comes every 6 months. My mare was last to be done, dentist put her hand in mares mouth and was a bit surprised. We've found that when she was a baby one of her wolf teeth was not removed correctly, it was snapped off therefore leaving the big root behind. The gum has grown over it at first but it’s taken around 10years for the root to be pushed up to the surface so that you can actually feel it, it’s causing the mare a lot of discomfort and if it’s not removed it will start hurting her really badly as her gums are now trying to get rid of it, by pushing it through the gum that has grown over it so many years ago. We have to have the vet out to sedate her and then dentist can remove the root. Dentist did say that we couldn't have known about it before as the root was so on the surface and the only way to have known that it was there would have been an x-ray of her head, but because there was no reason to have that done, we didn't find out about the root until now.
I think this explains a lot as to why she didn't want to come in, ducked out at jumps etc. Now i feel incredibly guilty for all those times that i got angry at her when she ducked out, ran away from me in the field and was generally naught as she was just trying to tell me that it hurts.
So to ease her discomfort until we can get the evil root out, we put her in a hackamore. She seemed much happier and didn't duck out at all, not even on the skinnies :)
I'm proud of her but at the same time i feel incredibly sorry for her and am very angry at myself :(

Sorry, this is very long. Chocolate muffins and coffee for everyone!
 
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good stuff!!
The only thing i have to say is get it sorted asap and if it was me yes i would be feeling guilty as well - perhaps the best thing is to ease off riding her and give her lots and lots of love until she is recovered. IMHO thats the best way to apologise. xx
 
don't feel guilty, you had no reason to take an xray so how were you to know?!! you're doing the right thing now by getting it sorted for her and thats all that matters. hopefully this will solve the issues you were having with her and you can both enjoy your time together:)
 
Don't feel guilty. Hindsight is 20 20 vision. My boy had cracked a tooth in half and I had no idea. It never affected his way of going and unless I had ED out as per normal would never have known. The awful thing is part of the tooth was digging into his cheek quite badly. Both pieces of tooth were removed in two sections over 6 months. Forgive yourself and move on.

Jane
 
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