Vets
The vet came to see Baby today, to check him out for the sale.
This was, of course, the worst possible weather: hot, humid, thundery. Given that one of the things you have to do is canter the horse around in circles until his heart rate goes above a certain level, and given that he's difficult to canter in the school at the best of times, and indeed given that I'm not very good in the heat, I wasn't looking forward to it.
On the plus side, the vet got to see him (fail to) react to the thunder when a couple of storms slid to the north and south of us, which he'll hopefully pass on.
When we came to the ridden bit, he actually did pretty well. It was probably the most cantering in one go that he's ever done. After we'd gone around a fair few times, I could feel that he was about to give up in despair. "He's about to break," I shouted to the vet. "Just do another circuit," he replied as we came to an in-elegant halt. Fortunately for my heart rate, after having a listen he pronounced himself satisfied, so we could stop!
So, everything went well, and the only thing that the vet found wrong was that he has mites in the long hair around his feet. We already knew that, and had told the people buying him, so it shouldn't be a problem: it's not really a very serious problem. I think the plan now is that they'll do a bank transfer this afternoon and then come to collect him tomorrow.
(We did get a storm here, in the end. Inevitably, it was while we were up in the woods with Jo.... Mmm, soggy all around.)
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This was, of course, the worst possible weather: hot, humid, thundery. Given that one of the things you have to do is canter the horse around in circles until his heart rate goes above a certain level, and given that he's difficult to canter in the school at the best of times, and indeed given that I'm not very good in the heat, I wasn't looking forward to it.
On the plus side, the vet got to see him (fail to) react to the thunder when a couple of storms slid to the north and south of us, which he'll hopefully pass on.
When we came to the ridden bit, he actually did pretty well. It was probably the most cantering in one go that he's ever done. After we'd gone around a fair few times, I could feel that he was about to give up in despair. "He's about to break," I shouted to the vet. "Just do another circuit," he replied as we came to an in-elegant halt. Fortunately for my heart rate, after having a listen he pronounced himself satisfied, so we could stop!
So, everything went well, and the only thing that the vet found wrong was that he has mites in the long hair around his feet. We already knew that, and had told the people buying him, so it shouldn't be a problem: it's not really a very serious problem. I think the plan now is that they'll do a bank transfer this afternoon and then come to collect him tomorrow.
(We did get a storm here, in the end. Inevitably, it was while we were up in the woods with Jo.... Mmm, soggy all around.)
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