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Post by huskiesnhorses on May 26, 2007 21:15:16 GMT -5
I love the one where she's looking thru that window -................ "yeah, I'll take the vegetarian, extra sprouts, a side of fries and ummmmmmmmmmmmm........a diet coke.
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Post by lbanimals on May 26, 2007 21:16:59 GMT -5
She loves french fries!  |
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Post by cat67 on May 27, 2007 0:26:00 GMT -5
She looks so much happier! She actually looks a lot more fit, too. I suspect she is also sweating off some extra pounds. Now she looks more like an athlete.
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Post by lbanimals on Jul 28, 2007 22:50:37 GMT -5
So just thought I would post a little update about the Princess. Nothing too new and exciting. She was a bit colicky a couple weeks ago....not passing any manure but acting totally fine. We ended up giving her electrolytes (the little tubes and also in feed) and mineral oil in her feed and keeping an eye on her....took a few days but she's back to normal now. Had her shoes pulled and she is still lame in front when pushed in a circle clockwise. Go figure. Next step is x-rays. She does fine out on her own and wandering around the field. According to the barn people she goes for a run every day when they turn her out. Who knows! There is nothing obivous wrong, as per multiple vet visits and nothing the farriers can find also. Such a money pit! Good thing I love her anyways. Okay so the real reason behind this post is that a friend had come out and taken pics of Foxy back in California a few months back for an art project....she finally sent me copies yesterday...and they are pretty darn cute. I love my Foxypants.   Foxy pretends she doesn't like getting kisses but she always wiggles her lips and drops her head down afterwards....she is such a good girl. Funny thing....I always guess Foxy was a broodmare in her previous life since she wasn't even really halter broke and definitely not saddle broke and has had some babies by the looks of her....there are two babies at my barn, one that is about 4 months old now and another that is about a month or so old. Anyways, they are weaning the older one and tried putting her with Foxy as a buddy while she is away from her mom. WHOOPS. Foxy loved that little buggar when she was turned out as a group while she was still with her mom and nursing....Foxy would apparently dance and prance and show off for the baby....well, Foxy did not appreciate the baby trying to use her as a surrogate when they were alone together. According to the BO, they had to be separated within 5 minutes. Whoops! Foxy did not appreciate noses where they didn't belong, it seems. She has now been paired up with an older mare that is pretty mellow (but still above Foxy) and they just hang out in the same field when they are turned out together and kind of ignore each other. |
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Post by lbanimals on Jul 28, 2007 22:57:28 GMT -5
 forgot this one! Visiting a big goofy draftsomethingorother-x (SHE IS SO CUTE!!) |
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Post by safehorses on Jul 29, 2007 0:39:08 GMT -5
Thank you for the pics and I am so glad things seem to be working out for you in Tennessee! Too bad she didn't like babysitting, but I totally get where she's coming from... Hope you are well and please keep up posted on how things are going!!!  |
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Post by cat67 on Jul 29, 2007 11:50:45 GMT -5
Too bad she didn't like babysitting, but I totally get where she's coming from... Oh yeah. I am right with you there! Although horse babies, I like - but perhaps if I were a mare, I'd feel differently |
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Post by lbanimals on Sept 22, 2007 20:48:16 GMT -5
So, long time no update. Foxy has had lameness issues off and on (mostly on) for the last few months.....pretty much since April/May. She has been off work anyways and just hanging out....which she is sound enough for. But every time i try to bring her back into any sort of work (read: lunging) she goes lame again. I had had the vet out a few times in the past for this issue but we could never figure it out.....Had the vet out today and did lots of lameness tests and flexing and nerve blocks and finally x-rays. She basically went sound after the first nerve blocks....and responded to the hoof testers, etc etc. Basically, without the results of the x-rays, we are all leaning towards some navicular issue. Which is what I had wondered about in the first page of this thread.....anyways, obviously I am waiting for the vet to call with x-ray results (she had to do them with a portable thing onsite since I do not have a trailer) but the vet has already suggested some sort of navicular type issue although she explained the whole "not necessarily a navicular bone issue but just the general bilateral heel pain lameness that is considerd a 'navicular type' problem". Something like that. So, I thought I would post here and see if anyone knew anything about Navicular? Any links I can check out? We had tried putting front shoes on her a while back and it did not help....but the vet also said it just may not have been the right shoes. I am more bummed about probably having to put her in shoes than anything else as she is absolutely horrible about being shod....she broke my finger last time we put shoes on her. She just pretty much flipped her lid and yeah. Not so much fun! Other than being totally lame and worthless, however, she is doing fine  I bought a cute little house on an acre (closing escrow next friday) and will be moving her there to live in the backyard once we can get it fenced. She seems to like Tennessee (me too!). She is a pretty awesome lawn mower. |
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Post by schwung on Sept 22, 2007 21:51:38 GMT -5
Chelsea will have some thoughts on this. Parelli had navicular issues and she had great luck with Natural Balance shoes and pads. So sorry to hear about this, but navicular can be manageable, so there is still hope. Good luck!
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Post by lbanimals on Mar 4, 2008 0:49:23 GMT -5
So it has been almost 6 months since I last updated about Foxy on here. Maybe someone can move this to the "other rescue" category? I see I last left off on the pending navicular issue. Yes, the vet confirmed via x-rays that there were some obvious navicular issues. And then wanted her to be trailered in for MORE x-rays and we discussed treatment options and I just wasn't all that impressed, to be honest. It was somewhat old school navicular treatment, and not really the direction I want to go with her at all. I ended up going the "proper trimming and turnout + early retirement" route. The guy who trims her does a pretty darn good job of keeping her toes down and she seems comfortable and fine and I am too busy to work with her so she gets to just hang out and do nothing all day, every day. I hesitated about even posting an update because I have almost nothing "good" to report (however i will get back to why I changed my mind in a bit). I bought a house in a rural area that has an acre. But was heavily wooded out back and not fenced. We cleared the land partially and have not gotten the fence done yet, so Foxy is still being boarded at this time. Unfortunately, my neighborhood has some CRAZY dog issues. The fence will be a no-climb mesh with hot wire on top and probably around the bottom of the outside, if not also running along the outside middle a few strands. Foxy is easy on fences anyways and so the big thing is to keep the crazy dogs out. Fortunately, neighbors all have livestock so while the dogs are crazy, I think it will be less of an issue with the horse than it has been with me and my own dogs. And if all else fails, Foxy already does. not. like. dogs. She lifts her leg and winds up for a good kick if one wanders a little too close...she has always acted weird around dogs but we never let her get close enough to see what would happen. Well, I had to intervene a few times when the half blind ancient dalmatian at the barn got too close to keep him from getting his brains kicked out. So yeah, Foxy will hopefully do just fine taking care of herself once we move her here. Anyways, I totally got sidetracked. Since I bought this (fixer upper) house and live alone....I have almost no time left over and so don't get out to see Ms Foxy much. She is boarded full care at a small farm (7 horses or so) where she is pastured during the day with the other horses and in the barn at night. She hangs out with the other ladies during the day....she still has weird horse issues. I was there one day when they were all zipping around the pasture and Foxy would not run with them. She was all excited and running at the same time, but she kept her 'pattern' completely different than theirs. They were running back and forth across the pasture and she was going diagonal corner to corner. (admittedly it is probably more due to the fact that she is VERY LOW on the totem pole and is trying to avoid getting close enough to be chased or bothered). She is pasture sound and fine and so I am just leaving her alone for now. Just before I moved here, when she was having real lameness issues, she was being buted pretty decent. And she was craaaaaaazy. I guess the bute just cured all ills and so she was a total looney tune, high as a kite, rearing and bucking when I handled her, etc etc. She was feeling good and wanted you to know it! She acted crazily enough that people would stop to watch if I was trying to lunge her or something. I figured that was a pretty good indication of her pain level without bute....that she was so calm and quiet and mellow until you gave her pain killers and then she was a firecracker (not really but compared to what I was used to. YES) So I have been hesitant to take Foxy out of her 'early retirement' for a bunch of reasons. I'm not able to afford professional training to get past her riding issues. Not to mention I do not think she would stay sound with hard "saddle breaking" type work. I just don't see it happening. I could see her being fine for light riding, but knowing her quirks, I just don't think "light riding" is ever going to get her past her issues to where she is really safe for me (the novice rider). I also hate to put her through all of that for uh...nothing? I would not ride much anyways, and probably not enough to keep her from backsliding (more on that later too). She also stays pasture sound barefoot....and I definitely think she may need shoes to deal with any significant riding. And she is VERY DIFFICULT to shoe. I value my life and am going to go with trims for now, ha ha. Also, having seen her antics while buted....and her most recent antics...she is definitely feeling better! That was a big part of why I did end up posting an update, even though I have nothing "good" to report. I am not riding her, I did not have improved xrays, I do not have a big fat blue ribbon or a story to tell about her saving me from falling in a well. As a matter of fact, most days I kind of feel like a failure as far as "horse rescue" goes. I have this young, beautiful horse who is pretty much worthless now and going to waste the rest of her life doing....nothing? She is only maybe 9-10 and looking at a lifetime of retirement? No riding, no nothing? It just doesn't seem like the success story it should be. But then the other day I went to see Ms Foxy Pants and took her out for a good grooming (she is FILTHY all the time now, what a change from last year when I kept her spotless!). She behaved for the grooming and even maybe enjoyed it a bit as she is starting to drop her winter coat. But what got me is when I was trying to brush her and she had her tail up and was just about prancing in place because one of her friends was out in the field wandering around. She was all excited and wanted to go out to run around with her and just could barely contain herself. She knows her manners and so wasn't bad at all, just...preocccupied with the outside world. I ended up taking her out to get pics and dropped the lead rope so I could step back and fit her in the frame. And she absolutely considered making a run for it. That is something I have never had to deal with with her. She wanted to be out having fun! Foxy doesn't have fun! Foxy behaves and is quiet and meek and mellow and almost unnoticable. Or not anymore. So Foxy let it known that while she may not be a superstar she sure as heck does not mind being 'retired'. As a matter of fact, she keeps trying to convince me to never attempt that riding thing again. Every time I see her with her tail in the air, racing around.....I have to admit, I think "holy &*@*, I am never attempting to ride that again!". So to make an incredibly long story short (or maybe it is too late for that), Foxy is apparently happier than ever before and could really care less that she is a charm school drop out. I laugh when I consider that I may not actually have any pictures with her head as high as in these ones. She always had this quiet and mellow look to her before...which isn't to say she isn't quiet and mellow now. She just keeps her head up and looks happier while she is doing it. She approves of retirement! Now if I could just quit bugging her and dispense carrots a little more quickly, life would be perfect.   |
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Post by akoehmstedt on Mar 4, 2008 9:31:30 GMT -5
Foxy is apparently happier than ever before and could really care less that she is a charm school drop out. This is what rescue is about to me. You gave her a loving home. She doesn't wonder where her next meal is going to come from, she is groomed, her feet are done and she is loved. You are doing a great job. |
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Post by cat67 on Mar 4, 2008 10:34:02 GMT -5
Congratulations on the house, that's so exciting! She will love living in your backyard. You know, they are cheap enough to keep at home so now you can get her a buddy who DOES ride. I personally have had the best luck keeping navicular horses barefoot and on a bunch of adequan, but everybody seems to get different results. |
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Post by lbanimals on May 19, 2008 21:38:44 GMT -5
Oh heck, I totally changed my mind. I am going to try bringing Foxy back into training to at least ride her a little. She has had a full year off to get her brain where it should be (I moved her May 2006) and I want to ride again! I have started a blog to chronicle our re-entry into the world of training and saddle breaking..etc etc etc. msfoxypants.blogspot.com/What a goober she is. She actually seemed thrilled today to be "back in work". Of course, I was not asking for much so she may just have been enjoying the attention. I am not planning on turning her into a world class superstar...I just want to be able to plod around an arena or field on her. Okay, so I really want to play horse soccer....we'll see! I am going to take a laid back approach to the "restarting" to see if I can balance her soundness and her training. If all else fails, she will get re-retired!  |
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Post by lbanimals on Jun 22, 2008 21:44:51 GMT -5
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Post by schwung on Jun 22, 2008 23:52:59 GMT -5
She's super cute! I hope she stays sound for you! |
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I bought a cute little house on an acre (closing escrow next friday) and will be moving her there to live in the backyard once we can get it fenced. She seems to like Tennessee (me too!). She is a pretty awesome lawn mower.
