Wolf teeth...HELP!!!!...(also in NL)

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Please can someone shed some light on my situation, or just listen while I have a rant!

So as most of you will know Spider went into the vets about her suspensory ligament damage and whilst there had he impacted wolf teeth out, now she had nearly 11 weeks off before I started riding her again, but was lunged for a few weeks before that in walk and trot in sidereins which were very loose to start with then I gradually increased the tightness so she was working round and working nicely behind. Kind of started from basics again when I got on her an dlet her poke her nose a bit (as she loves to) and was walking trotting and then introduced canter for about 3mins. Now last week I started to try and work her a bit rounder and she isnt having any of it infact she was so bad yesterday that just with a contact on her I pushed into trot and she was bucking and very reluctant to go forward, then any pressure on her mouth in trot and she goes to rear

I am seriously at my wits end with her, her mouth is ten times worse and I dont know what to do on the plus side her hinds are working very well!!

Will probably get vet out next week for her check up and to see what he says but can anyone on here help at all?

She is in a training loose ring loxenge copper snaffle or a 2 ring lozenge happy mouth continental gag.

HELP!!!
 
is she having pain/assosiative memories, or mayb there is still a prob with the wolf tooth site itself, not infected still?
 
They werent ever infected and not even causing a major problem just little niggles so they went.

Also I was always told horses didnt memorise things like that and if they did how comes they come sound when you nerve block and things........

All very confusing
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I think its interesting that the mouth has become an issue when you are asking her to do something that would have been painful for her due to her suspensory.

With my mare, before we isolated the suspensory as the cause (no lameness) the wolf teeth were the 1st things to go (they were quite large) as this was directly related to the behaviour. The more collection asked for, the unhappier she became.

If you are asking her to take the weight behind more she could have some associated memories from when the suspensorys were hurting.

I might be inclined to take a step back and let her just mooch for a bit longer and introduce the collection more slowly in case it all becomes an issue again.
 
Im not asking for collection at all though and the vet is saying this is how I need to be progressing, she needs to be starting to school properly so we can see if the op has worked.

Also she never had pain behind really and was never lame, only 0.5 lame out of trot on a flexion! SO it was very minor so I dont think there is any pain she is remembering in her hinds its definitely coming from her mouth.

I also cant mooch and hack her at the mo as she has started napping
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and rears at any pressure on the mouth when you try and turn her in the direction you want to go! I am absolutely tearing my hair out!!
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Def sounds like teeth pain. Can you get hold of a hackamore just to try? The oste told me he would have memory for a few months and he was the same for ages till he finally realised it wouldnt hurt

Poor you, dont know what else to suggest except for them to look in her mouth again??
 
Yes I am going to lunge her tonight and ride her in a hackamore tomorrow definitely to try it
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And then will get the vet out end of nxt week anyway to check her.

thx for your help and PM hope your boy is ok
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Yes so far so Good. Have been told to start jumping again next week. Its been a year of 1 step forward and 2 back!! I have entered him in Firle HT in a few weeks just as a little run, Now he can canter with all his legs and not holding one up all the time!
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He is now a different horse and one more visit form osteo in couple of weeks. Let me know how you get on Ill keep it crossed for you that its something simple
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Just a thought, are you sure it's definitely her mouth that's causing the problem?
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A sore back and/or neck could also cause reluctance to go forward and bucking when being asked for a contact, and you say she was fine on the lunge a few days ago, so she could have done something to herself in the meantime.
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worth getting her jaw x-rayed, perhaps, make sure there aren't any fragments of wolf tooth still there, they can be tricksy little wotsits and not come out clean the first time, especially if they were small.
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trying the hackamore sounds like a good idea tbh.
best of luck.
 
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