Re: Lameness (update)

Caelan <dippenflipper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Well it gets worse. The horse is hot in three feet and dead, dead
> lame. He is ****fting weight from foot to foot in front and won't even
> stomp flies off. My instructor picked up a foot to see what was going
> on underneath and the horse almost went down. Heat and bounding pulse
> in 3 legs. The BO put him in a sand paddock, but the poor horse is
> dead lame even in that.
> 
> The horse broker came out and looked at him and is willing to take him
> back. She's convinced it's a bad trim and he'll come sound. I wish it
> were true, but my gut feeling is that this horse is a used up rope
> horse that someone drugged and sent to an out of area broker. The
> original owner is not local to us. I'm hoping to salvage some money
> out of this at this point.
> 
> The one I feel sorry for is the horse. I stroked him and gave him some
> treats. He really is a sweet boy.

Get a vet. Now. 

Even if you are not going to keep this horse, he is under your
and the BOs care and you owe it to him to do SOMETHING to
perhaps save him.

He's in pain, exquisite pain and patting him isn't going to help
him.

A vet can.

Please, call a vet.

Sue
svleopold@[EMAIL PROTECTED]