Post by Lorraine L on Dec 24, 2008 20:09:57 GMT 1
That is what i found when i drove to the yard this morning !
The neighbour to my sisters place was stood in her field with her two horses wearing her Pj's
It was only when i realised that her ' wave ' to me was not the usual greeting type, i reversed the car back up and onto her drive.
The poor woman had found her 18 month old filly dragging its back leg this morning. Basically the filly could not walk and fell over several times by trying to follow her.
The ladys' husband had phoned the emergency vet before leaving to go to work, but it meant that she could not leave the filly for fear of her trying to walk and risking further damage.
She told me that she had been there for an hour and a half. The phone in the house kept ringing but she daren't go and answer it. ( turned out that it was the vet ringing back with progress updates on the traffic )
Apparantly everyone on the lane, had driven by and waved but continued on with their day not realising that they were in trouble. I got some hay from the barn to give both the horses but by this time the filly was exhausted from just standing.
The vet arrived and looked pretty shocked because the filly was dragging her foot but trying to stand on .. well, her cannon bone
The outcome was that she has a locked stifle. After all the necessary injections, she was told to try to 'surprise' the filly this afternoon in order to spook her and have her drive her hind legs into unlocking the stifle. ( This little one is the most laid back and unspooky horse i have ever come across ) This evening though, things weren't looking great as nothing had changed. They think that they might have to take her in and operate. Not a straight forward op apparantly because of the risks involved.
Fingers crossed all round x
The neighbour to my sisters place was stood in her field with her two horses wearing her Pj's
It was only when i realised that her ' wave ' to me was not the usual greeting type, i reversed the car back up and onto her drive.
The poor woman had found her 18 month old filly dragging its back leg this morning. Basically the filly could not walk and fell over several times by trying to follow her.
The ladys' husband had phoned the emergency vet before leaving to go to work, but it meant that she could not leave the filly for fear of her trying to walk and risking further damage.
She told me that she had been there for an hour and a half. The phone in the house kept ringing but she daren't go and answer it. ( turned out that it was the vet ringing back with progress updates on the traffic )
Apparantly everyone on the lane, had driven by and waved but continued on with their day not realising that they were in trouble. I got some hay from the barn to give both the horses but by this time the filly was exhausted from just standing.
The vet arrived and looked pretty shocked because the filly was dragging her foot but trying to stand on .. well, her cannon bone
The outcome was that she has a locked stifle. After all the necessary injections, she was told to try to 'surprise' the filly this afternoon in order to spook her and have her drive her hind legs into unlocking the stifle. ( This little one is the most laid back and unspooky horse i have ever come across ) This evening though, things weren't looking great as nothing had changed. They think that they might have to take her in and operate. Not a straight forward op apparantly because of the risks involved.
Fingers crossed all round x
....... not easy mind if one is doing as one should and watch the road while driving !!!
