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  4. I Have A New Lawn Mower

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    We have a ride on mower as we have a huge garden. The horses keep the paddocks down but we have to do the gardenrolleyes.gif

     

    I still have to work hard to persuade OH to use it though but I think he is bored with his toy now. When we first bought it, couldn't keep him off it-typicallaugh.gif

     

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    When we kept the horses across the lane I used to have a little trailer which I used to fill with horse poo and and then hitch it up to the back of the mower and take it down the fields to the muck heap. Great fun laugh.gif It was just like a mini tractor.

  6. Positive Thoughts For Milly Merle Please

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    Healing thoughts for dear Milly wub.gif

     

    We were so worried when our dear old Bridge boy Bosun was diagnosed with hemangiosarcomasad.gif He had it on his sheath and eventually it got huge and it looked like a bunch of black grapesohmy.gif

     

    One day it bled quite badly and we thought that was the beginning of the end.

    Now the baffling thing is that after a while it started to shrink and eventually disappeared completely and he never had a mark left on him.

     

    Vet said he had never known it and thought that it would be the one thing that saw him off and could only put it down to one or more of the supplements we were giving him. There was no other explanation.

     

    We were giving him Manuka Honey, Zara's Herbal Tea and used Petzlife Tooth Gel which had a high concentration of Grapefruit Seed Extract in it with other herbs.

     

     

    I had a dog that lost a toe through a tumour and she did fine afterwards-she lived until she was 14 and she was 6 when it was removed.

     

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  15. Ollie Not Good - Need Some Advice

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    Sorry no advice really other than I am sure you will know when the time is rightsad.gif I have been there so many times, watching our oldies deteriorate and failing. Some folk do not tolerate much at all, if they are the slightest trouble they send them on their way but I have never given up on them even though it has worn me out!

     

    It is stressful and very wearingsad.gif

     

    I know what you are going through but all I can offer are my sympathies and lots of these Group_Hug_Emoticon.gif

  16. Jan, Needs Healing Thoughts Please *Update: Very Sad News :-((*

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    Our dear little Beagle Jan was diagnosed with Lymphoma last December and has been doing really well up until the weekend when her appetite started to wane.

     

    We have been to the vets' with her this morning and the problem is a very enlarged liversad.gif

     

    The Lymphoma is not the problem, vet says it is quietly sitting there doing nothing much but the liver is the big worry.

     

    She was diagnosed with an enlarged liver several years ago and had many tests which were inconclusive and over the years it hasn't been a problem up until now.

     

    She is quite poorly so any good thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

  22. Equine Cushings

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    We have had 3 ponies with Cushingssad.gif Two have gone to the Bridge and one still with us. It can do different things to different horses.

     

    Of the two we have lost, Tina a 13hh pony had the classic long curly coat but didn't have laminitis at all in her 33 years despite access to as much grass as she liked!

    In the end we lost her to a twisted gut which was not grass related but the vet thinks was made worse because of the Cushings or may even been a tumour in her stomach as she did have melanomas in other parts of her body.

     

    Poppy had laminitis for the last 10 years of her 30 years because of the Cushings. She didn't have access to grass at all for her last eight years. We lost her in the end because the laminitis had done so much damage to her feet and she was on three legs over her last 48 hourssad.gif

     

    Shadow, who is now 21, the survivor was diagnosed 18 months ago as however careful we were he kept getting laminitis. He kept getting abscesses in his feet also.

     

    He was diagnosed with a blood test and he had high levels of ACTH in his blood.

     

    He doesn't have the classic coat problems but does have a crest on his neck although he is not overweight. He has fat pads above his eyes, drinks and pees a lot too.

     

    He does have 3 hours a day out in a diet paddock so he can stretch his legs and comes on to the yard for the rest of the time where there is a minimal amount for him to pick at.

    He has a hay net each evening. Late cut, old meadow hay is the best. he has Dengie HiFi Light, Top Spec Antilam, Alfalfa Pellets with a little garlic and 50ml of Aloe Vera juice added to it.

    He is not allowed any cereal based feed at all, no sugars or starches either.

    During the Winter months he has Dengie Alpha Beet in addition to all that and he is also on Pergolide prescribed by the vet.

    We did give him Hiton Herbs Cush X for about 11 months which worked well but found eventually it didn't work so he had to go on the Pergolide.

     

    I think the sooner you can get a diagnosis the better and get on to a regime asap if it is positive. Our vet told us that it is more common than people realise but is under diagnosed as people tend not to have them tested. I know it is a bit of a complex test as the blood has to be chilled immediately and sent off to Cambridge. Not sure whether it can be processed differently now but our vets are very hi tech and they couldn't do it.

     

    Hope it isn't that with your boy though but thought the info' may be usefusmile.gif

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