Sick horse & funny story

[natisha]

Roo, one of the Saddlebreds boarded here, has been spiking fevers the last few days. Blood work is pending but most likely some sort of virus (they always say that). All the other horses are fine-so far. I've cancelled a big ride planned for Saturday when HE is home just to be safe.

Humerous story- Roo, though he is a good boy, can be rather difficult to assess & treat so this morning I asked my 'friend',( who I'll call Mike because that's his name), to help me before he left. It went something like this...

Me-"Just hold his head so he can't kick me"
Mike-"But I'm holding his head, not his legs"

Mike-"Are you putting that thing where I think you're putting it?"

Me-Trying to give oral banamine, pushing up on Roo's head while Mike is pulling down.
Roo spit out a big blop.
Me- "We have to get his head up so he can swallow it"
Mike-"That doesn't make sense, they drink with their heads down"

Me-"I have to give him a little more because he spit some out"
Mike- "Just have him eat what he spit out, it landed on hay"

While I do appreciate Mike's help it becomes obvious that detailed instructions are required when nonhorse people help horse people.:rolleyes:

Anyone have any similiar stories? I could use a few laughs today.

[WashingtonBay]

He's right on at least two points :cool:

[oursarge]

Oh Poor baby, I sure hope he will be OK. This probably is not the reason he is getting fevers but this happened with Rompy, he would not eat his grain but would eat hay. I knew he wasn't feeling good so I called the vet. He checked him [Did not take temp though for some reason] and gave him Banamine. In a little while he was fine, playing and having a great time. He ate all his grain that night but the next a.m. it was the same thing so back the vet came, took his temp and it was way up very hight and he had no clue since everything else seemed OK. He put him on anti biotics and more banamine for a couple days and we had to take his temp twice a day, he actually liked it. Rompy has a little perverted action there with his tail etc. I always hope nobody sees me when I'm scratching him there. He was fine with the meds then one day he started to limp. He had an abcess. Now here is where it gets tricky, the vet said the fever came from the abcess forming and was so happy that he then knew why the fever was so high, the farrier said the abcess came from the fever. What ever it went away but it was scary. Hopefully things will go well with Roo. I know what it's like to treat difficult horses, I have 2 here that hate to be treated, it's a fight from beginning to end. Dommie was so good when he needed help, he was so cooperative including with his feet which he hated having picked up but when he had a problem and needed to be treated he handed his foot to me, once he felt better I couldn't get that foot up without a fight! When Sarge needs Bute Paste we put it between 2 cookies and he eats it.

That is a funny story about Mike. I don't have anything funny but I needed to read something funny. We had the vet out yesterday and Sarge's eye is done, no hope of ever getting sight back in it. It does not seem to hurt so we don't have to have it removed that is the only good thing. We don't have to put ointment etc any more since it will not help. He said he has end stage glaucoma, not sure what that means, he has a cataract and uveitis so my baby has one eye. He will be OK with one eye but we all know that it travels to the second eye eventually so I needed your story. I wish I had something funny to share, I'm at a loss right now. I have some stable stories but I couldn't tell them on here!!! Hugs to Roo and maybe Mike too!!!! That really is funny. My husband was like that in the beginning but he's better with things now.

[IrisGreen]

Lol, Yeah working with non-horsey people can be hard sometimes and comical. lol

My Husband is like working with a robot that only does exactly what you tell him to do. So, I say "hold the lead rope while I pick out his feet and treat him for thrush". He holds the lead rope while Muffin is wiggling and searching him for treats and I'm under a wiggling horse. I stand back up and say "can you please hold him still". He says "I was holding the lead rope like you told me too". I look and he has about 5 feet of the lead rope as slack and Muffin is begging him for treats, stepping forward, giving him kisses and not standing still. So, I say "ok, can you stand up straight, tell Muffin No and give him the command to Stand and do it again if he starts moving?". Husband says "yeah". Problem solved.

[lacyloo]

LOL ! My boyfriend called me while he was up in Alabama and was wondering why all of the horses up there were "blindfolded" lmao

[IrisGreen]

LOL ! My boyfriend called me while he was up in Alabama and was wondering why all of the horses up there were "blindfolded" lmao

A few years ago my Husband and I went to an auction. We walked though the aisle and looked at all the horses. Some had saddles on in there stalls. My husband asked me why all the horses were babys and why did they have saddles on them when they were so young. These were all adult Quarter Horses and Paints we were looking at. He thought Muffin was a normal sized horse and anything smaller was just a baby that hadn't grown up yet. :hysterical: He was disturbed that people were riding such young baby horses.

[mare]

Hope Roo gets all better soon.

My poor younger brother, very urban, not any kind of animal guy at all has gotten pressed into service twice with me.

Once when visiting me on a ranch where I was cow boss, I needed him to hold (mug) a calf that had an abcess from a weed seed that had worked into its' jaw. Brother is a body builder, should be no problem, I thought. That little calf beat him, rolled him, tap danced on him every which way until I got him tied. Bro accused me of taking my time, but it all happened in under a minute.

You can only imagine the "ewwwws" and "grosssss" and "this cow should be in a hospital" that he narrated that procedure with.

Later we went to a neighbor's place where they had brought in five pair and the calves still needed branded, vaccinated and castrated. The neighbors are elderly, and the husband had just had shoulder surgery so I offered to castrate. More noise and blood, smoke and manure.

That night brother and I were having a drink on my deck and all he said was, "You scare me." Heh, maybe he wouldn't have been such a pesky little brother if he'd known how I was going to turn out!

[natisha]

That is a funny story about Mike. I don't have anything funny but I needed to read something funny. We had the vet out yesterday and Sarge's eye is done, no hope of ever getting sight back in it. It does not seem to hurt so we don't have to have it removed that is the only good thing. We don't have to put ointment etc any more since it will not help. He said he has end stage glaucoma, not sure what that means, he has a cataract and uveitis so my baby has one eye. He will be OK with one eye but we all know that it travels to the second eye eventually so I needed your story. I wish I had something funny to share, I'm at a loss right now. I have some stable stories but I couldn't tell them on here!!! Hugs to Roo and maybe Mike too!!!! That really is funny. My husband was like that in the beginning but he's better with things now.I'm sorry about Sarge's eye. 'End stage' means it has run its course & there is nothing more to do, just a term for what you already know.
Maybe it won't go to the other eye or if it does it will be manageable. Try not to stress until you have to.

[HeavensEast]

You gotta love Mike, don't you? haha :p

[oursarge]

I'm sorry about Sarge's eye. 'End stage' means it has run its course & there is nothing more to do, just a term for what you already know.
Maybe it won't go to the other eye or if it does it will be manageable. Try not to stress until you have to.

Thanks Natisha I sort of thought that was what it meant but was hoping for more I guess, thing is short of having lazer surgery that might or might not help but cost a small fortune we did all we could. I am doing a little better actually, I was having a melt down but then I talked to my best friend and she reminds me alot of you, she deals with things and always makes me laugh. We talked for a long time and what she said is true, so many things can happen or not happen before it gets to the other eye it's silly to worry about it. Unless he is in pain which he doesn't appear to be then just leave him be and let him be a horse. I got thinking about things and I worried so much about this happening and now it has and Sarge is acting like nothing is wrong with him so I need to stop. I don't want this to sound cruel because I don't mean it to be but I stressed all summer about that eye because normally things came right back after treatment, didn't happen this time so I worried and cried and we did all we could do and spent so much money trying to help and nothing helped. Now it has happened and it's almost a relief since he's dealing with it fine [Chewing my hair as the vet was talking to me! Trying to rip the pockets off of my coat to get cookies] so I need to just treat him like a normal horse and not worry about the other eye just watch it. I can see that no matter what we do if it's meant to happen it will happen. The $100.+ a month [Not counting the thousand + in vet bills] we spent trying to prevent it from happening will go to something else. He will be on MSM though because of it being an anti inflammitory otherwise all meds are done. My friend said if he gets real bad at any point and can't function here she will take him and put him with her blind horse and maybe he can learn from her and Rompy would get a different playmate for awhile. I can't do anything to change it so I have to accept it but it is sad because he has the most beautiful eyes with long lashes. He doesn't care that his eyes aren't beautiful now but it makes me feel bad just because I loved his eyes, the second I saw him they drew me to him. I love him no matter what though.

Hope Roo is better and Mike has recovered from his horse duties, wonder if he was traumatized?!

Iris and Mare those stories are priceless, I love them!

[dustys_girlly]

hope Roo starts feeling better.

my all time favorite story to tell non-horsey people is that i help in a horse date rape, lol. first time young stud could not get it into the right hole and the mare would kick him every time. we did not have a set of breeding hobbles around but we had the vet. he drugged her, one person held the mare, i held the stud and the studs owner had the honor of guiding him to where he needed to be. the fun joys of horse breeding. we thought this mare was the best choice for his first. she had been bred a few times before and all their other mares where all maiden.

[natisha]

You gotta love Mike, don't you? haha :psometimes;)

[natisha]

Hope Roo is better and Mike has recovered from his horse duties, wonder if he was traumatized?!

Roo will be fine & Mike, well, he'll be back ;):innocent:

[Dakota Sunrise]

I'm sorry Roo is sick, but that story really cracked me up!:p

[Suzi]

Good vibes to Roo....

Too funny, and Lacy yours got an out-loud laugh. I have seen NonH people wonder how I horse can see with a flymask, but never refered to as blindfolded. Maybe we should come up with our own BW forum name for non horsey...after all we came up with confuzled.