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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I agree.
Hopefully Barbaro's legacy is that of a positive contribution to equine veterinary science and generations to follow will benefit.
I agree with this also, but will take it one step further. I hope equine veterinary science has learned there are some things they just cannot do, and don't try this again on another horse.
Becky
Yes, you are and have a great way with words also... :)
Good morning, cold here too... 21. ~shivers~ But it's been so sunny and nice I keep thinking it's spring, and it isn't. 3 months at least until I can plant things!
It's gonna be a really long primary season.
Agree with everyone on Barbaro threads... Freepers are strange curmudgeons!
Well I'm glad to hear it! I was wondering about it just yesterday and meant to ask but promptly forgot about it. I found them all to be quite addictive and really hated it when I got to the end then had to wait a year or two for the next one. I really need to go back and read them all from the beginning.
I wonder if what killed him was that they wouldn't take the chance and turn him out. It wasn't the break, it was the standing that killed him. Movement is life to a horse.
Well, thanks, but I don't think I convinced anyone :~)
How's Harley walking on his new feet, btw?
I always stop by to feed Tennessee every morning on my way to work and the last two mornings have been brutal, with temps at about 14*. It's been dry for the last week or so, and it has warmed up above freezing in the afternoons, so that's been good, but we're supposed to start getting a "wintery mix" this evening and on into tomorrow morning and I dread it. People around here don't know how to drive when it gets like that. And to top it all off, Lee's got to catch a flight tomorrow morning at 7am to go to Charlotte, NC and that'll put him having to drive to the airport at the worst possible time. I'm trying to convince him to just drive on over there tonight and stay at the airport hotel. It'll cost him quite a bit, but it'll be nothing compaired to what it'll cost if he wrecks his car or gets hurt. Men can be so stubborn sometimes!
Exactly, so why did they drag it out so long, and how did they ever expect to keep him from developing it in the first place. (rhetorical question:), When I first heard they were going to try to fix the broken leg, I knew then the main problem would be his other leg...and I'm not a vet. He should have been put down at the start.
Becky
There's a benefit in reduced stress in your idea... I'd be with you!
To tell the truth, I haven't paid much attention. It's so cold, and I've been busy getting ready for a wedding shower I'm having here Sat. (and none of this is a good excuse, I realize:).
Becky
I've thought several times too, to mention how much she was enjoying them, and then would promptly forget:)
I'm looking forward to reading them too.
Becky
I thought that sling thing he was in was designed to reduce load the only way they can, but in order for them to get really good circulation, they have to move. I'm sure they didn't want to risk turnout because he might rebreak the leg, but it cost him the other three.
I'm sure these concepts are all known to them, I'm sure it's one of the things they debated, I'd just wonder if it'd gone the other way if he was turned out early and allowed to move more. One of the farriers from the farrier forum talked about founder, and that after the acute stage, they need turn out. She said every horse that's remained stalled on Bute after foundering in her experience has died. Those that have been turned out did better.
Wedding shower? Whose?
I was having such a cool dream this morning. I woke up and told my husband I wanted to go skiing. He said "like on snow?" That's what I meant. I have never been on skis in my life but I was doing fine in my dream. He said it's too cold and too expensive. I elbowed him and said "yeah, that's what you were saying in my dream too!"
I kept waiting to hear, (and maybe I missed it), why they didn't put him in a swimming pool for exercise and movement...maybe it wasn't feasible with his injury, but I've read where they do that sometimes with horses who have leg injury's.
And what you said about movement is life to, was what I was thinking from the beginning. The whole make up of how a horses system works seemed to me to be enough evidence that it wouldn't work. I was hoping I was wrong, that with new tech. it could be done, but personally I had little hope.
Becky
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