Post by jessandoscar on Jan 22, 2014 13:56:01 GMT
Thought i'd share a couple of pictures of Oscar!
He's been very ill since february last year, started out as the usual 'bad behaviour' that is always thrown in by the gelding that forgot he was gelded when he was 10. Then it started getting worse to the point where i could be riding him and at any point he would turn himself inside out and wouldn't stop, a few times i had to jump off for my own safety and he still carried on rearing, spinning, launching etc. One day we were hacking down the road and had been out for a couple of hours and stopped off at the pub, perfect behaviour at all times teaching my boyfriend on the baby pony how to behave, then from nowhere (we were walking on the buckle) he started shaking his head, plunging and rearing, spinning etc and run backwards into the path of an oncoming corsa.
Had the vet out to examine every possible option, he assumed he was just 'a bit tapped in the head' and a possible brain tumor but i insisted on a scope due to the fact he's nervous with the saddle. Turns out he has the worst ulcers the vet had ever seen in his career, with almost full paralysis of the exit of the stomach to small intestine. He was on gastroguard for 5 months but every time he was scoped his ulcers seemed to be getting worse, we then discovered an unknown blistering in his throat which partially prevented his breathing whilst in an outline. We took bloods to see why he wasn't getting better, the vet suggested equine leukaemia and we were praying this wasn't the case, the bloods came back and concluded that he has liver and possible brain damage from ragwort poisoning from before i bought him. The vet gave him 3 weeks and one final scope and it was decided that if his condition was again deteriorating then we would have no option but to PTS as it wasn't fair to keep him suffering. Eventually he started to improve and a whole year later he has been clipped out and ready to come back into work after what the vet called a 'miraculous recovery'.
I've been through hell and back with this horse so many times but this one was by far the worst year of my life. Here he is, not been worked for a year and still looking gorgeous
xxx
He's been very ill since february last year, started out as the usual 'bad behaviour' that is always thrown in by the gelding that forgot he was gelded when he was 10. Then it started getting worse to the point where i could be riding him and at any point he would turn himself inside out and wouldn't stop, a few times i had to jump off for my own safety and he still carried on rearing, spinning, launching etc. One day we were hacking down the road and had been out for a couple of hours and stopped off at the pub, perfect behaviour at all times teaching my boyfriend on the baby pony how to behave, then from nowhere (we were walking on the buckle) he started shaking his head, plunging and rearing, spinning etc and run backwards into the path of an oncoming corsa.
Had the vet out to examine every possible option, he assumed he was just 'a bit tapped in the head' and a possible brain tumor but i insisted on a scope due to the fact he's nervous with the saddle. Turns out he has the worst ulcers the vet had ever seen in his career, with almost full paralysis of the exit of the stomach to small intestine. He was on gastroguard for 5 months but every time he was scoped his ulcers seemed to be getting worse, we then discovered an unknown blistering in his throat which partially prevented his breathing whilst in an outline. We took bloods to see why he wasn't getting better, the vet suggested equine leukaemia and we were praying this wasn't the case, the bloods came back and concluded that he has liver and possible brain damage from ragwort poisoning from before i bought him. The vet gave him 3 weeks and one final scope and it was decided that if his condition was again deteriorating then we would have no option but to PTS as it wasn't fair to keep him suffering. Eventually he started to improve and a whole year later he has been clipped out and ready to come back into work after what the vet called a 'miraculous recovery'.
I've been through hell and back with this horse so many times but this one was by far the worst year of my life. Here he is, not been worked for a year and still looking gorgeous
xxx