Whats the dumbest thing you've called the vet for?

[fankino04]

I genuinely think the vet is now on their way because my girl got pissed off at a big buzzy bitey thing that wouldn't leave her alone. Got to field to give hay and they were all eager to have a snack but she got really odd with them and was charging at them and kept circling around. I thought they'd all settle when I got the next lot of hay so they would have more space from each other, went and got more and came back to her lying down staring at her belly, then she lay fully stretched out, git up and started charging the horses around again. Then stood with head under her friends belly pawing the ground, wandered away and then lay down again. Obviously I thought colic so called vet, she then starts cantering up and down the track, randomly throwing herself on the ground etc and I finally spot the buzzy thing!!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Id still get the vet. BB colicked while riding on Tuesday.. he had just pooped as well.. but indeed i was very lucky and it was spasmodic colic

 

[smolmaus]

You can't NOT call the vet though, if they're throwing themselves about. Can you imagine trying to sleep tonight thinking What If? now that you have called, it will just be the buzzy thing!

I got the vet out to do a full workup because pony insisted she was SO SORE. I had arthritis or a fractured pedal bone or goodness knows what else in my head, I was a mess for a week. Mild thrushy frog that I already knew about, was in the middle of treating and had discounted because it was so minor. Still worth the visit for the vet to tell me to stop making everything into a catastrophe

 

[Cherryblossom]

Because my mare who was in the middle of rehabbing was so backwards and grumpy on a hack when she normally marches me round with ears forward….. turns out she doesn’t like going behind another horse!

 

[cobgoblin]

32yr old shireX came in horribly lame. We immediately thought foot abscess but the devil flatly refused to lift his leg.
The next day he was still lame so we had both the vet and farrier come.

He came out of his stable totally sound and trotted up without a care in the world. So embarrassing!
He still got sedated so the farrier could have a good look at his feet though, they were perfect.

 

[fankino04]

Well vet been and says her guts a little loader than ideal, gave buscapan to be safe and started a rectal but had to clear so much poo at that end she was proper pissed off with him before he got any further in. Heart rate, temp and gums all good so 99% sure it was the buzzy thing. She had settled lovely and was munching her hay when he got there, trouble with spasmodic colic is it settles and seems fine before it comes back.

 

[cobgoblin]

Let's hope thats the end of it.

 

[fankino04]

Let's hope thats the end of it.

Definitely crossing fingers and toes, she had settled nicely and was munching her hay before he got there so that's a good sign.

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

Usually stoic horse was lame being led to the field in the morning. Looked like an abscess so put back in his stable and vet called.

Vet unsure, no response to hoof testers but left me with a good stock of bute and said if the bute works before anything pops, likely to not be an abscess. I poulticed etc and bute had an impact.

Turned out he'd bruised his foot kicking the door for his breakfast.

 

[Fjord]

I once rang the vet almost in tears, convinced my mare had some terrible disorder. Her flanks were trembling, I was convinced she was really sick. She'd got wet and was cold...

 

[fankino04]

Well just been and checked on her, she's eating and drinking and there's fresh poos that I'd say are too much to all be from the other horse and Shetland. She had one odd spell where she herded the other horse around then went and stood on her own for a minute or so then went back to join her munching hay so not sure what that was about but on the whole I think she's fine. If I hadn't seen the odd behaviour and lying down earlier I wouldn't think anything much of what she just did.

 

[little_critter]

My mare came in from the field very lame. I put her in the stable and found my friend to take a look. In that time she’d got even worse.
Called vet out (on a bank holiday!) and by the time he got there she was 99% better.
I think she pulled a muscle literally just before I brought her in. Putting her in the stable caused her to seize up and look even worse but it quickly wore off.

 

[HorseMaid]

Not horse but my dog, this was before we moved to where we live now so at least 7 years ago. Dog was lame, ignored it for a day or two hoping it would resolve but no, eventually she was on 3 legs so booked a vet appt and carried her to the car. Vet waiting at the entrance for us for whatever reason, well the bloody dog jumped out of the car and bounded into the vets on all fours. Literally nothing the vet could find wrong and she's 16 now and never taken a limpy step since!

 

[PapaverFollis]

I hope she's OK, fankin.

I, too, have called the vet for a horse "having muscle spasms"... full bloods taken etc etc... erm, yeah, she was cold.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

When we were at livery, in the days before mobile phones, fortunately, I had YO on standby to ring the vet as I had seen quite a lot of blood on my mare's flank when I brought her in, in the dark. When I washed the wound site and stood under the light, I realised that it was a big blob of wet mud!

I almost rang the vet about a pale yellow Lab puppy, as she had scabs round her ears. Then I realised that it was porridge!

 

[Sossigpoker]

Well I did call the vet when my horse was almost not weight bearing in the front.
Vet comes later that day and bloody horse is perfectly sound! Vet wouldn't believe he was hopping only hours earlier!
Had the Farrier not long after and there was no evidence of a bruise so we never found out what it was!

With my very first horse about 20 years ago I again called the vet as horse was hopping...turned out the horse had a stone in his foot

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

A friend of mine called the vet because her horse was agitated and bucking and kicking out so thought colic. Turned out it was a tick!

 

[Kunoichi73]

Id still get the vet. BB colicked while riding on Tuesday.. he had just pooped as well.. but indeed i was very lucky and it was spasmodic colic

Only just seen this. Hope BB is ok!

Definitely crossing fingers and toes, she had settled nicely and was munching her hay before he got there so that's a good sign.

Hope she stays well.

 

[millikins]

I called the vet for our first pony because I thought she was going blind. Escalating behaviour but culminated in her refusing to even walk over a pole at a clinic. Vet came, full exam, said nothing wrong with her eyes, her saddle doesn't fit I was mortified, not only for the poor pony but I loved that saddle, it was only a few months old, lovely leather-only the best for your first pony, we'd worked so hard she was an entirely different shape.

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

I once called the vets for a full work up because my horse behaved itself.

 

[Season’s Bleatings]

Not a stupid one really but had a mega mega panic on Monday because my horse - who I’ve been super carefully rehabbing from a tendon injury, and had just reintroduced field turnout - had a fat leg. On the OTHER leg.
Lots of panic from me.


Mud fever, secondary infection. He’s fine

 

[Janique]

I nearly called the vet the other day, found my horse with a both front legs very big, coulnd't see any cuts or injuries. Just both front legs
very warm and swollen.

He lives out with a herd of 15 on 20 hectares and it's not easy to treat him.

Bought some bute and went to see him two days later, both legs clean and completely cold and fine.

Still don't know what happen, but he is fine now.

 

[fidleyspromise]

My last one was out of hours vet came for a leg wound from fencing. If it had been one of my others I'd have just treated it myself feeling confident but as he's new and young I kept doubting myself. My other horse had done similar the week before and I sorted her but I kept thinking he's expensive, get young, he might heal differently to her (no idea what my thinking was there, haha).


My dog stayed with my mum and I had a text while at work asking to get a vet appointment as her eyes were bursting out of their sockets and going to fall out. wtf? I speak to work, speak to vet and get an appointment that afternoon, take a half day holiday, jump in car to pick up dog an hour away. Her eyes look massive like cartoon eyes. She had conjunctivitis.

 

[claracanter]

My TB was hopping lame so I box rested him for 24 hrs and then called the vet. Literally as she arrived an abscess burst through his hoof. She said this happens on average once in every vets career. I was so relieved it was just an abscess

 

[SEL]

I once called the vets for a full work up because my horse behaved itself.

I've done OOH call out when the Appy didn't eat her breakfast. Yard thought I was mad but that horse never refuses food. Justified call out though as she then ran me up a whopper of a bill.

I think the broken leg abscess ones are common. We found one of the polo ponies walking with her right hind at a funny angle. Assumed some sort of pelvic injury. Vet had a look at hoof and barely touched the sole when a fountain of pus erupted. Pelvic injury cured!

 

[fankino04]

I once called the vets for a full work up because my horse behaved itself.

I did call them once before because she stopped coming down the field to meet me for about a week, she went back to herself a few days before vet was due so I cancelled visit, think she had pulled a muscle or something and as it was winter she got a bit stiff and sore until it loosened off. Felt like a mad woman telling the receptionist that I think there's something wrong because she no longer walks to meet me of her own accord lol

 

[little_critter]

I had been rehabbing my horse after steroid injections into his fetlocks. Rehab had been ok, then he went backwards. Not walking freely and generally saying no.
Made an appointment with the vet, but a few days before the vet came the horse got a new set of shoes.
That’s the time when I discovered that T is a princess and says ‘no’ if his feet get even a smidge long.

In fact I’ve pretty much written off the last 2 weeks of riding because his feet have grown really quickly this cycle and he’s just not happy with his shoes.

 

[nagblagger]

I called the vet once because my donkey didn't bray to me. She came over, ate her food etc with the others. The receptionist thought I was mad. Turns out she had an infection, liver enzymes were high white cells high and was actually very ill. Stoic animals.

 

[rabatsa]

I called the vet once because my donkey didn't bray to me. She came over, ate her food etc with the others. The receptionist thought I was mad. Turns out she had an infection, liver enzymes were high white cells high and was actually very ill. Stoic animals.

Often a donkey is very sick by the time it actually looks ill.

 

[fankino04]

Pic from friend when she went to feed at 8am, looks like normal service is resumed. Looking forward to getting car back this afternoon to go and see her and calm myself down