All I seem to do is post up depressing threads these days but things with Ben just go from bad to worse.
He has been lame for 10 weeks now, firstly with an infected splint, a bout of colic, then a very sore back and is now lame on his right hind. This is likely to be the cause of his problems so he is booked in for scans next week. He may have bone spavin but do not know this yet.
My bill is already £1400 and the insurance have rejected my claim because they are saying I compete outside my activity group at elementary level. This is simply not true and I am in the middle of a huge row with them. While I am sure I will win (as I have never done anything above prelim), it is so stressful and upsetting.
I can long rein and ride him in walk and have to do this for 30 mins per day so the vet can see if this makes him better or worse. It goes against my conscience to ride him when I know he is lame and for the first time since I have owned him I have to make myself get on.
Then there is the spring grass! He is having to come in for a full 12 hours to get him off it as he is fat! This time last year I was riding him for 2 hours per day and he was muscled and trim. Now he just looks fat and wobbly and I am worried about laminitis.
The vet wants his lovely white feathers all washed and clean for next Monday morning so the clippers glide through them easily!!! He has warned me they will need to be gone so he can feel his legs properly and inject if necessary. It took me years to grow them. He already has a shaved patch on his front right leg where his splint is so I may as well clip them all off together.
So it is all doom and gloom. I am so worried about what the vet will find next week. I am worried the insurance won’t pay out and to top it all off I have organised a party for my sons 8th birthday on Thursday with a bouncy castle for the garden and it is due to rain all day!
I keep saying to myself I will not post on here until I have some happy news but I am wondering if that will ever happen!
He has been lame for 10 weeks now, firstly with an infected splint, a bout of colic, then a very sore back and is now lame on his right hind. This is likely to be the cause of his problems so he is booked in for scans next week. He may have bone spavin but do not know this yet.
My bill is already £1400 and the insurance have rejected my claim because they are saying I compete outside my activity group at elementary level. This is simply not true and I am in the middle of a huge row with them. While I am sure I will win (as I have never done anything above prelim), it is so stressful and upsetting.
I can long rein and ride him in walk and have to do this for 30 mins per day so the vet can see if this makes him better or worse. It goes against my conscience to ride him when I know he is lame and for the first time since I have owned him I have to make myself get on.
Then there is the spring grass! He is having to come in for a full 12 hours to get him off it as he is fat! This time last year I was riding him for 2 hours per day and he was muscled and trim. Now he just looks fat and wobbly and I am worried about laminitis.
The vet wants his lovely white feathers all washed and clean for next Monday morning so the clippers glide through them easily!!! He has warned me they will need to be gone so he can feel his legs properly and inject if necessary. It took me years to grow them. He already has a shaved patch on his front right leg where his splint is so I may as well clip them all off together.
So it is all doom and gloom. I am so worried about what the vet will find next week. I am worried the insurance won’t pay out and to top it all off I have organised a party for my sons 8th birthday on Thursday with a bouncy castle for the garden and it is due to rain all day!
I keep saying to myself I will not post on here until I have some happy news but I am wondering if that will ever happen!