Monday, February 2, 2009

Not a good day

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Four of our horses are really sick and the vet does not know if Ditto and Dixie will pull thru it. Pepper seemed better this evening and Rusty is so so. At least she stayed on her feet. We have not an idea for sure what is the matter except they eat the same hay and the pasture horses eat another hay. They do not have good gut sounds, Ditto had barely any. Dixie's were not good either. They all four had blood drawn, and Ditto and Dixie got tubed, and all 4 got Banamine shots. As sick as Dixie is she had to sedate her but Ditto is so sick she just stood there and let the vet stick the tube down her nose. So $815.00 later we still don't know if the two mares will make it or not. they were fine yesterday but did not eat this morning. Dr. Porter thinks there was something toxic in that bale of hay but its gone so she could not take a sample of it.

Thanks loads for your good thoughts and prayers. I will keep you updated. Bob is taking the first stretch in the barn and I will do about 1 or so for the rest of the night.

7 comments:

  1. Poor Ditto and Dixie--I hope they pull through it tonight. I'll be praying.

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  2. How awful. I'm so sorry. Poor things. I'll be thinking of you all tonight. Keep us posted.

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  3. Oh, gosh! I'm so sorry to hear about your horses. Please keep us posted. I'm sending good thoughts your way.

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  4. Can you contact whoever you bought your hay from and let them know what is going on with Ditto and Dixie and, perhaps, they need to be contacting others who bought hay from them. This certainly is not good and we all know how distressing it is when our animals are sick! I believe God looks after and loves his critters as much as he loves His humans! Hugs!!!

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  5. OH no! How horrible. I hope the night went well. If there's anything I can do to help just let me know.

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  6. Oh, Lea, I hope and pray they are better today!!!

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  7. thanks everyone. I think we are over the crisis. It was an awful night. Sitting in a stall in the middle of the night listening to them struggle to breath is so hard.

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