littlesteppers
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I posted last week about my friends colt "trauma" she found her colt standing with hanging head, No temperatur elevation, Not eating..she was thinking over heated..anyways it got worse and he laid and she could NOT get him up..
Rushed him to the vet..he did a full blood panel and decided that liver damage is the culprit and decided it was trauma..she left him overnight and he got IV's and Nitro on the hooves..he also had Not small enough tubes and it took him 8 hrs to find tubes that fit the horse.
This guy is ONE of 12 vets that are spread out around our town..all working for ONE headvet..(owner)
He never exactly explained to my friend what he is doing..even after she repeatly asked..he treated the little horse like cattle..and she was very upset..she checked on the horse again at night..he laid and was threasing with his legs and feet like he tried to get up..
Next morning she drove again to the hospital and the horse laid dead in the stall..she was highly upset and proceeded into the office..where Mr. vet sat and told her..well guess you saw..he didn't make it..No sorry, No explanation..she was so mad she pulled all the Iv's and took her horse home and burried him..she called me AFTER she burried him..I would have told her to do a necropsy..anyways..would you go to the big boss and complain about that young vet or just write it off and hope you never get him in a emergency call??
Shealso was stuck with a 600.00 vetbill and a dead horse!!
Rushed him to the vet..he did a full blood panel and decided that liver damage is the culprit and decided it was trauma..she left him overnight and he got IV's and Nitro on the hooves..he also had Not small enough tubes and it took him 8 hrs to find tubes that fit the horse.
This guy is ONE of 12 vets that are spread out around our town..all working for ONE headvet..(owner)
He never exactly explained to my friend what he is doing..even after she repeatly asked..he treated the little horse like cattle..and she was very upset..she checked on the horse again at night..he laid and was threasing with his legs and feet like he tried to get up..
Next morning she drove again to the hospital and the horse laid dead in the stall..she was highly upset and proceeded into the office..where Mr. vet sat and told her..well guess you saw..he didn't make it..No sorry, No explanation..she was so mad she pulled all the Iv's and took her horse home and burried him..she called me AFTER she burried him..I would have told her to do a necropsy..anyways..would you go to the big boss and complain about that young vet or just write it off and hope you never get him in a emergency call??
Shealso was stuck with a 600.00 vetbill and a dead horse!!