I thought I would share my misfortune yesterday in the hope of helping other from ending up the same!
Friday night my horse cut his pastern in the field, he was sound and not bad enough for stitches, but I decided to poultice it over night after cleaning it just to be sure and protect it a bit....Saturday morning I went outside and rather absent mindedly (only been awake 15 minutes) started to slide the scissors in down the front of the vet trap to snip it off and have a look..Feeling the cold metal sliding in he flicked his hoof, splitting my cheek open and giving me a huge black eye and swollen face.
There are so many things I SHOULD have done and it was completely my fault.
I should have picked his hoof up and held it to see to the wound, rather than doing it with his foot on the ground. I should have made sure I was more awake. I should have thought about my safety rather than going straight in absent mindedly..
Its so easy to get really complacent when you know your horse well and forget entirely, as I did, that as much as they are good and loving animals, they have no idea how fragile you are!!
So there, I thought I would tell my rather embarassing tale of woe to help everyone think a bit harder when they are dealing with injuries!!
I feel like an idiot and look like the elephant man - but it could have been sooooooooooo much worse....
Friday night my horse cut his pastern in the field, he was sound and not bad enough for stitches, but I decided to poultice it over night after cleaning it just to be sure and protect it a bit....Saturday morning I went outside and rather absent mindedly (only been awake 15 minutes) started to slide the scissors in down the front of the vet trap to snip it off and have a look..Feeling the cold metal sliding in he flicked his hoof, splitting my cheek open and giving me a huge black eye and swollen face.
There are so many things I SHOULD have done and it was completely my fault.
I should have picked his hoof up and held it to see to the wound, rather than doing it with his foot on the ground. I should have made sure I was more awake. I should have thought about my safety rather than going straight in absent mindedly..
Its so easy to get really complacent when you know your horse well and forget entirely, as I did, that as much as they are good and loving animals, they have no idea how fragile you are!!
So there, I thought I would tell my rather embarassing tale of woe to help everyone think a bit harder when they are dealing with injuries!!
I feel like an idiot and look like the elephant man - but it could have been sooooooooooo much worse....