LOL, you are so right. It’s really a no win situation.
But with my mistrust of the media, I think it would be rewarding to be able to tell them to pi$$ up a rope:). I take great pleasure in that. and I’d applaud anyone who did it that had a story they really wanted:)
Becky
Chatty bunch this morning... hope I have included everyone who’s here to say good morning to this morning!
I am glad they tried... and I have my own opinion about why they failed (which probably doesn’t amount to a hill of beans compared to the resumes of the people involved, but that’s never stopped me before).
In the first day or two after this happened, I copy/pasted the same prognosis for what to expect on many threads where his treatment was being argued on this forum: “Movement is life to a horse, they’ll need to get him moving as soon as possible.” I knew if he had to stand in a stall he’d get laminitis, a horse’s lower leg and foot circulation comes from movement. And the thing is... I know the doctors “knew” that too.
I wonder if he’d have survived, if they’d risked the repair and turned him out. With the cast on if they feared the repair wouldn’t hold. Give him lots of quiet pony powder so he doesn’t run and buck, but get him walking and grazing. Yes, I know they hand walked him, but that’s not enough.
I wonder if they debated it. I wonder, since these are TB people whose horses are always stalled when they aren’t being worked, if they assumed that stall rest was best, when a country vet would have said “turn him out”.
I go back to the farrier Patty Stiller’s posts about founder that I’ve read, she kept saying “after the acute founder phase is over, the horse needs to be turned out. The horses I’ve treated who were turned out all made it. The ones who were stalled and on Bute ALL died. I wonder if he’d been turned out early, while the bum leg still really hurt, if he’d have taken care of it, but still moved enough to keep his other feet from falling apart.
If I had access to the people involved, that’s what I’d ask.