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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
Thanks - I really don't know why I'm worried.

It's really cool how much folk medicine is actually effective isn't it? I would bet this practice is several hundred years old and just now vindicated by science.

4,256 posted on 05/12/2005 12:42:46 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Duchess47; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; FrogInABlender; All
Vet also said that spaying is not a simple procedure at all in horses, and that there is a 10% mortality rate on the surgery if done traditionally with the horse on her back.

He said the Universities and other clinics were now doing spays standing, with the entry point in the loin, rather than from underneath, and that that was better, less bowel and other tissues in the way that are susceptible to infection and hemorrhaging. He said he wouldn't do it - not trained in it, and that he'd have to refer me... I'm not really interested anyway.

Just more grist for the mill...

4,261 posted on 05/12/2005 12:56:02 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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