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I just got back from the barn. Just as I was leaving to go there, it started snowing and blowing. It looks serious, though I don't think it's supposed to amount to more than a few inches. At least it's not an ice storm, though they did predict that. How that can be when it's below freezing was something I wondered about, but maybe we'll be lucky and it'll just be snow.
When the farrier trimmed Penny's feet and we discussed her problem lifting her left hind foot, he suggested rubbing her leg to warm it up before lifting it, and I've been doing that. I seems to help. Today, she gave me a lot less trouble than recently when I lifted it to clean it out. Granted, I only lifted it an inch off the ground to clean it, but that's progress. Now my question is whether she is just getting better or whether rubbing her leg helps. And I wonder what happened to her leg. I think she strained it either when she was caught in the vines or the next day when we rode and she slid slightly on an icy patch that was covered in snow, so I didn't see it and steer around it. That slide didn't seem particularly drastic, but it could have just twisted something a certain way.
It's been about a month now since she has had trouble lifting that left hind foot, and I'm wondering if it's worth a call to the vet or if time and rubbing the leg and warmer weather to come will heal it, which was what the farrier suggested. He thinks inactivity may have something to do with it, and when there's grass and they move around more, she may improve.
When the farrier trimmed Penny's feet and we discussed her problem lifting her left hind foot, he suggested rubbing her leg to warm it up before lifting it, and I've been doing that. I seems to help. Today, she gave me a lot less trouble than recently when I lifted it to clean it out. Granted, I only lifted it an inch off the ground to clean it, but that's progress. Now my question is whether she is just getting better or whether rubbing her leg helps. And I wonder what happened to her leg. I think she strained it either when she was caught in the vines or the next day when we rode and she slid slightly on an icy patch that was covered in snow, so I didn't see it and steer around it. That slide didn't seem particularly drastic, but it could have just twisted something a certain way.
It's been about a month now since she has had trouble lifting that left hind foot, and I'm wondering if it's worth a call to the vet or if time and rubbing the leg and warmer weather to come will heal it, which was what the farrier suggested. He thinks inactivity may have something to do with it, and when there's grass and they move around more, she may improve.
If it were me Sandy I'd give it more time like the farrier suggested since she is showing progress.
That's what I'm inclined to do, too, and I've given it a month. Then I keep thinking maybe I'm neglecting her and just being cheap by not calling the vet. But then I picture the vet coming and poking and prodding her and not finding anything and suggesting I take her to Cornell where they have better equipment. I don't want to do that. When Penny started getting lame, I did that, and they poked and prodded and took hours to say, "Well, of course, she has a clubfoot, so that's why she's lame." I knew she had a clubfoot, and for years she wasn't lame. But then, I was warned that she would break down sooner because of it, so I've just accepted that it's the clubfoot and all those years (she's 24). But this refusal to lift her hind leg is something new. Maybe it's just more of the same. I don't know. I'm not sure I want to pay experts to tell me that, though, and I bet that's what they'll say. When I took her to Cornell before, it cost me most of a day and about $400 to hear she had a clubfoot!
I'm not horse person, at all, Sandy, but I'd wait for the warmer weather and see what happens.
I thought the snow wasn't going to happen. It got up to 37 around noon but it's dropped back down to 35. I just saw a couple of fully flakes (snow not people) drift by the sliding door onto the deck. It sure looks like snow out there.
Tritium, I ended up ordering off of FleaBay. With some luck, they'll be here by the weekend or early next week. Agway was a bust, they didn't even have cauliflower seeds.
I thought the snow wasn't going to happen. It got up to 37 around noon but it's dropped back down to 35. I just saw a couple of fully flakes (snow not people) drift by the sliding door onto the deck. It sure looks like snow out there.
Tritium, I ended up ordering off of FleaBay. With some luck, they'll be here by the weekend or early next week. Agway was a bust, they didn't even have cauliflower seeds.
Awsum, thanks for the advice. Though you're not a horse person, you could think if it was your dog what you'd do, so your advice is valuable.
You are very kind to order seeds for Trit. Did you get some for yourself, too? What will you plant?
You are very kind to order seeds for Trit. Did you get some for yourself, too? What will you plant?
I got some seeds for me as well, just to try out what Tritium is growing. That plus cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, pole beans, pickling cucumbers and a couple of tomato plants.
We've had mixed results with the vet as well, Sandy, which is why I said wait. Bo keeps getting cysts between his toes from the small hairs there becoming ingrown, probably because he's not outside, running, and wearing them down. We've had as good results with "home" remedies, or maybe better, than the results from going to the vet. It's all a matter of time an patience with it. Right now, we're putting a "booty" on his left rear paw before he goes outside to protect it from the roughness of the snow, ice, rock salt and dirt. The poor guy has a problem on ice because that paw doesn't have good traction.
We've had mixed results with the vet as well, Sandy, which is why I said wait. Bo keeps getting cysts between his toes from the small hairs there becoming ingrown, probably because he's not outside, running, and wearing them down. We've had as good results with "home" remedies, or maybe better, than the results from going to the vet. It's all a matter of time an patience with it. Right now, we're putting a "booty" on his left rear paw before he goes outside to protect it from the roughness of the snow, ice, rock salt and dirt. The poor guy has a problem on ice because that paw doesn't have good traction.
Awsum, interesting that Bo's problem paw is the left rear too. That's the one Penny won't pick up. Penny is barefoot (no horseshoes) so she has booties, too, for when the ground is particularly hard or rough.
SandySu - The reality is that Penny is 24 years old and she has a club foot so she is probably getting stiffer and getting arthritis. The vet probably won't do much for her so waiting a month until the warmer weather comes probably won't hurt her.
I'm sorry Penny isn't doing well on her foot/leg. It is a tough decision since you want to take good care of her but you also don't want to waste money either.
I'm sorry Penny isn't doing well on her foot/leg. It is a tough decision since you want to take good care of her but you also don't want to waste money either.
Any chance it's the other leg and the reason she won't lift the left is because it puts weight on the right? You may be rubbing the wrong leg.
We have a 32 year old Arabian mare. She doesn't have a club foot, but she's no spring chicken any longer. You could try some banamine. That's what Durfria gets when she's sore.
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Thanks, Cindy!
Sorry you're getting the ice Rave.
I'm glad that you didn't go out driving. There was a quarter inch of ice on the roads in your town. BF had to fill in for a driver who broke her leg and was having a heckuva time keeping that bus from sliding down hills.
Well, I'll be dipped. I've never heard of that word either. I like it! But, then, I like most words. Certainly fits, doesn't it? And here I thought I was just "colorful".
There's a story attached to calling all animals "bunnies". My father was a playful sort. You couldn't always tell when he was serious and when he was playing unless you looked for the glints in his eyes and a slight crinkle at the corners. He decided that, in his retirement, he'd make a bunch of money raising chinchillas. Not that he needed it. He already had a bunch of money, but it would give him something to do in his free time. So - he built a huge concrete building out back and built cages and got his chinchillas. It all woulda worked out fine if he hadn't started petting them ... and naming them ... you know what I mean. He ended up with over two hundred soft, fuzzy pets. He referred to them as "bunnies".
My daughter overheard him calling them bunnies and didn't understand. She thought maybe he was confused. At the time, she was probably four or five. Maybe six at the most. Anyhow, I explained to her that he was just playing. She was absolutely indignant. You just don't do that! A dog is a dog. A cat is a cat. A chinchilla is a chinchilla. Only a rabbit is a bunny. I insisted that it was perfectly fine to play with words. You can make friends with words if you play with them like toys. She had to mull that one over for awhile, but I guess she took it to heart. She's a heckuva writer.
That's a definite possibility, but I have a feeling that it's the left hind leg, and the reason she doesn't want to lift it is because bending it is painful. The farrier looked into that and also he looked for pain in her back, but we found nothing conclusive. I do rub both hind legs, though, just in case. Whatever is going on, it seems she was better yesterday but still not back to normal. It's been warmer, too, which may be what caused her to lift the foot with less dancing around, trying to avoid it. It's all guesswork. I sure wish she could talk and tell me where it hurts.
The vet gave me a tube of bute to use for these occasions, but I really don't want to medicate Penny just so I can lift her foot to clean it out. I thought banamine was more for colic pain and bute was the drug of choice for lameness pain. I'm no authority, though, and I really don't know why you might choose one drug over the other. I have bute in paste form. You give it like a dewormer. It's more expensive than the pills, but I use very little, so I pay for the convenience. Penny is a picky eater, and she would never eat her dinner if bute was in it, so I'd have to dissolve the pill and syringe it into her mouth anyway, so the paste is easy to administer.
Good morning, Voltpeeps,
You are doing your best to figure out what is going on with your horse, SandySu.
My neighbor's husband passed away yesterday. Kind of sad. He retired and shortly after that, he found out he had really rare bone cancer. Poor guy didn't even get to enjoy his retirement at all. It was a shame. And they were, of course, looking forwards to doing the stuff you do when you retire. Little road trips and such.
I have my one and one/half job today. Argh!
You are doing your best to figure out what is going on with your horse, SandySu.
My neighbor's husband passed away yesterday. Kind of sad. He retired and shortly after that, he found out he had really rare bone cancer. Poor guy didn't even get to enjoy his retirement at all. It was a shame. And they were, of course, looking forwards to doing the stuff you do when you retire. Little road trips and such.
I have my one and one/half job today. Argh!
Good morning, Lizzie. I'm sorry to hear about your neighbor's husband. Was this the neighbor who was going to share your garden?
No, in fact, The Garden Neighbor, came by yesterday and we worked together to start pepper and tomato seeds. She's coming back next week and we will see what seeds we should start next. Maybe giant snapdragons
It was nice to have the two of us working together. I filled the planting cells with dirt and she sprayed water to moisten the planting medium. Then, I planted the seeds while she wrote up the tags. It went very smoothly.- Status
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