Marnie
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I wasn't going to put this on here as some people are so judgemental. But Donna thought I should as it's a learning experience.
To start with, Thurs morning, I found him with a gurgly breathing and green saliva. I had my vet out, he put the tube down his nostril, felt something move on down and we were happy he was ok. By evening, he had it again, had my vet back out and did it again. We decided to put him on totally soft food now to try to heal the damage. The colt had a temp of 104.5 now, my vet did warn me that he now has a very severe case of phnumonia sp?? and he gave him a couple shots, and I was to start him on smz's. He said he must have got some milk down the windpipe and got some into his lungs, a very serious condition. I work the grave yard shift now. When I got home at 7:30, I ran down to the barn to make sure he was ok and here he had it again. I called my vet again, he came back out. We had to make a decision, take him to the hospital, they'd have to keep a tube down him for a wk or so, it would cost a few thousand dollars and sad as it is, this hospital doesn't care about minis. Donna and I found that out, every time we take one there, they lose it. But the main thing is that Mark thought this colt could have damage to his throat and was set up for a lifetime of choke problems. I have a bad throat and choke alot, it's scary and miserable, I couldn't do that to a baby.
So we told Mark to put him down. Nate and Mark decided to cut his neck open to try to determine the cause. They were shocked and called me over to look. This baby had a huge bruise on the inside of his throat, as Mark moved tissue around, a huge ball of puss, kind of a odd white solid puss, emerged from the inside. His throat had some damge to it, Mark figured he must have gotten kicked very hard within the last couple wks and this puss must have been building for some time but finally got so bad that the symtoms showed from the outside. Mark said he couldn't have been saved. But the odd thing is that just a few nights ago, he was out there playing with the other colts, running and rearing, who'd ever have thought he had any problem at all. He had to have been in severe pain, it's to bad they can't tell us this. Mark said it just would have kept growing and choked him off.
He wasn't even three months old. Rest in peace, my little Rolled In Gold.
To start with, Thurs morning, I found him with a gurgly breathing and green saliva. I had my vet out, he put the tube down his nostril, felt something move on down and we were happy he was ok. By evening, he had it again, had my vet back out and did it again. We decided to put him on totally soft food now to try to heal the damage. The colt had a temp of 104.5 now, my vet did warn me that he now has a very severe case of phnumonia sp?? and he gave him a couple shots, and I was to start him on smz's. He said he must have got some milk down the windpipe and got some into his lungs, a very serious condition. I work the grave yard shift now. When I got home at 7:30, I ran down to the barn to make sure he was ok and here he had it again. I called my vet again, he came back out. We had to make a decision, take him to the hospital, they'd have to keep a tube down him for a wk or so, it would cost a few thousand dollars and sad as it is, this hospital doesn't care about minis. Donna and I found that out, every time we take one there, they lose it. But the main thing is that Mark thought this colt could have damage to his throat and was set up for a lifetime of choke problems. I have a bad throat and choke alot, it's scary and miserable, I couldn't do that to a baby.
So we told Mark to put him down. Nate and Mark decided to cut his neck open to try to determine the cause. They were shocked and called me over to look. This baby had a huge bruise on the inside of his throat, as Mark moved tissue around, a huge ball of puss, kind of a odd white solid puss, emerged from the inside. His throat had some damge to it, Mark figured he must have gotten kicked very hard within the last couple wks and this puss must have been building for some time but finally got so bad that the symtoms showed from the outside. Mark said he couldn't have been saved. But the odd thing is that just a few nights ago, he was out there playing with the other colts, running and rearing, who'd ever have thought he had any problem at all. He had to have been in severe pain, it's to bad they can't tell us this. Mark said it just would have kept growing and choked him off.
He wasn't even three months old. Rest in peace, my little Rolled In Gold.
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