But at least she signed her name...too often people are afraid
to speak up about ANYTHING they see. So they resort to anonymous
postings. Sorry, Ken, but I think this was just NOT nice. What is
YOUR ride history like? Maybe you should take a look at yours, too because
unless there is another Ken Cook, it's not any more impressive than
Lilean's. Let's not be so quick to judge and be nasty! It's not what
this sport is about. What Lilean did was report something she saw (whether
it is erroneous or not) and what you did in reply was just MEAN.
At the PAC games, I saw 6 horses (with my own eyes) that were in
serious metabolic failure including dehydration, chemical
imbalances, severe diarrhea. I saw others that were brought in due
to "lameness" that later became metabolics, that were not in the
statistics that you counted. And I saw several others that were
metabolics that returned to stable within a shorter time.
These seem to be some pretty serious obsevations from someone
without a DVM after thier name. I would like to know how you know these horses
were in chemical imbalance, and metabolic failure? Did you draw blood? Did you
physically test thier parameters? Or was this observation just based on your
years of experience at these rides?
