My client Debbie had to put down her mare last night. What started out as a seemingly mild colic when she called me for some advice turned into a full-blown emergency an hour later. She started just under 40bpm and, just slightly uncomfortable and then it shot up over 100 and she was in real distress by the time the vet got there ( Read more... )

Tru-D no longer thinks that the velcro noise is going to kill her when the fly mask is being put on and taken off of her. She will (mostly) stand to be fly sprayed so long as you have a hand on her mask. This is about the stage Charm-N was when we first got her so being as she's 13 years younger than Charm-N was I think we should be able to make ( Read more... )

I still like the name Greta, but Chris still doesn't so I've been trying Trudy and Harley, but I don't think Harley is going to stick ( Read more... )

Thursday I did a jumping lesson with Kitt. She warmed up nicely and had a surprising spring to her trot. She warmed up nicely over the cavelletti both in trot and canter before we started work on the three jump combination (two single strides). It's hard to remember now when and where she refused, but it was an improvement on the last time. ( Read more... )