First of all, let me assure everyone I’ve called the
vet, she just hasn’t called me back yet. And I’m paranoid and need
something other to do than stare compulsively at my horses eating.
I went out to ride tonight, and pulled Alpine out of the
pasture, and when I went to groom him I noticed his lymph nodes behind his jaw
are swollen. Really, really, really swollen. I peered in his nose, and he has
some clear to cloudy colored discharge, but no pus or nasty stuff coming out, but
he’s blowing his nose out more than normal. He seems to feel fine…maybe
a smidge quiet, but it’s warm out today. His temp is 99.8. He’s
eating. He’s bright and cheerful and was even trying to scavenge chicken
feed.
I went out in the pasture to check the others, and Shoney
(one of my boarders) also has swollen lymph nodes and a bit of clear runny nose.
He is perfectly bright and happy and hungry. I didn’t take his temp, I
called his owner instead. The other two seem fine.
I live in florida,
land of strangles, so I’m paranoid. I’ve never had it on our
property before, and the horses have been nowhere and no one has been here in
awhile, except my friend Kim with her 4 year old QH who is fine…I called
to check. Alpine has never been vaccinated for strangles, he has some severe
vaccine reactions, so I’ve been pretty careful about what he gets.
Shoney gets the vaccine twice a year, the last time about a month and a half
ago.
Help! Anyone have any suggestions/comments/etc to keep me
sane till the vet gets here? I would greatly appreciate it if everyone would
tell me I’m paranoid and that they just have a cold…..
Juli and the herd in Florida who are on standby for a vet
call which no one is going to like cause the equines are getting shots
undoubtedly and the human has to write the resulting check to the vet.
