Re: [RC] rattlesnakes - Dyane SmithBarbara, why did being bitten on the nose affect his soundness? Dyane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <Merryben@xxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [RC] rattlesnakes Why couldn't the best endurance prospect we ever had have to be bitten on the pastern instead of the nose? The recovery took 8 months (for the wound) and his soundness is still problematical (if that's the correct word). It just about broke my heart. We still have him, hoping for some sort of miracle. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <Merryben@xxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [RC] rattlesnakesAnybody know of a state where there are NO rattlesnakes. That's where I am moving, unless they have hurricanes. Poor Liya is the latest casualty. She is on Banamine, Pennicilin and Gentacin but she has a fat lip. And I have to get up at 4:30 for the next 12 days to go shoot her up because it has to be done twice a day.....She is taking is gracefully though. This is the third horse this year......mbBeen a bad year for snakes here as well. We likewise had a 2-year-old filly snakebit in the nose. She looked like she was wearing a basketball on the end of her face for a few days. The young man who works for my neighbor came up and checked on her for me a couple of times the first day while I was at work. He said she looked like Snuffleupagus, or however you spell it. Hit her hard with banamine and dex the first day, and put her on SMZ rather than penicillin/gentomycin. She only needed the banamine for about 4 days, and kept up the SMZ for about 10 days, and she recovered quite uneventully. Nice thing about the SMZ is that it is broad spectrum but is given orally and only once a day, so she didn't even get very mad at me... Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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