Little Bit
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[SIZE=12pt]It's been awhile since I posted about another success story with Little Bit's *Magic Shoes*, so thought I would sit down and tell you little Addie's story.
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Addie is a dwarf mini and just as cute as a bug's ear, but as with many of these babies, her little fetlocks were too weak to hold her weight.
Her owner braced her legs until she was 6 weeks old and then she contacted me about the shoes. This is what her owner wrote in some e-mails before I sent her the shoes:
[SIZE=11pt]At 5 days her right hock had to be flushed...had a white blood cell count of about 70,000---should be around 12,000. We had to repeat that procedure 3 times and a 4th minor to test the fluids again. about the time the joint was cured, the front completely fell apart. ' Seemed like it was over night, her toes flipped up, and sideways also, to the inside or the outside, her knees followed the direction of the fetlocks...she could not move. [/SIZE]
Oh, when the metatarsal bones in the pastern area "fell apart" I had our vet come out right away. She pretty much said she would put her down. I just could not make up my mind, so Elaine left for 45 minutes to another farm, and said she would come back and I could tell her what to do. So while she was gone, I just sat there with Addie, and decided to let her go to foal heaven. So, when Dr. Means got back, I said, "I have decided that I can NOT do it...that is not what I had decided, but that is what came out of my mouth. So, she said "Fine, lets try some PVC piping and make some braces...above the knee, 12 hours on one leg, then 12 hours on the other." She left. PVC! 10 inches of that weighs more than the whole horse. So it was that day that I invented the syringe cover style, and over the knee was wrong...and one leg at a time was wrong...but that is how I got to where I am. I do not know Mona...but I wrote to her...and she sent me to you.
[SIZE=12pt]Here's some pictures of little Addie's front legs before her *Magic Shoes*. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Here's little Addie's legs with her *Magic Shoes* on![/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Oh! thought you might like to see the "whole" little Addie, too! [/SIZE]
Here she is with her nasty ol' braces on before getting her *Magic Shoes*
.....I told you she was ADORABLE!
I commend Addie's breeder for being SO committed to helping this baby!!!
Addie is a dwarf mini and just as cute as a bug's ear, but as with many of these babies, her little fetlocks were too weak to hold her weight.
[SIZE=11pt]At 5 days her right hock had to be flushed...had a white blood cell count of about 70,000---should be around 12,000. We had to repeat that procedure 3 times and a 4th minor to test the fluids again. about the time the joint was cured, the front completely fell apart. ' Seemed like it was over night, her toes flipped up, and sideways also, to the inside or the outside, her knees followed the direction of the fetlocks...she could not move. [/SIZE]
Oh, when the metatarsal bones in the pastern area "fell apart" I had our vet come out right away. She pretty much said she would put her down. I just could not make up my mind, so Elaine left for 45 minutes to another farm, and said she would come back and I could tell her what to do. So while she was gone, I just sat there with Addie, and decided to let her go to foal heaven. So, when Dr. Means got back, I said, "I have decided that I can NOT do it...that is not what I had decided, but that is what came out of my mouth. So, she said "Fine, lets try some PVC piping and make some braces...above the knee, 12 hours on one leg, then 12 hours on the other." She left. PVC! 10 inches of that weighs more than the whole horse. So it was that day that I invented the syringe cover style, and over the knee was wrong...and one leg at a time was wrong...but that is how I got to where I am. I do not know Mona...but I wrote to her...and she sent me to you.
[SIZE=12pt]Here's some pictures of little Addie's front legs before her *Magic Shoes*. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Here's little Addie's legs with her *Magic Shoes* on![/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Oh! thought you might like to see the "whole" little Addie, too! [/SIZE]
Here she is with her nasty ol' braces on before getting her *Magic Shoes*
I commend Addie's breeder for being SO committed to helping this baby!!!
