Post by aoconnor on Feb 9, 2018 13:01:27 GMT
And the previous owners of my new rescue are good candidates for a smack in the head.
I have a new gelding named Royal. He was a confiscation case from the sheriffs department. They were called out by someone in the neighborhood, and when they got there it was an overwhelming sight. Royal had a Sarcoma on his right eyeball the size of a fist, 4 inches long, and hanging out of his eye. It was so heavy it had pulled the eye out, it was infected and the stench was awful. He is between 8-10 years old and hasn’t been handled since he was very young, if at all. The sheriff couldn’t get near him to get a halter on him, so the owner said he would get him penned and haltered so they could pick him up the next day. Well, they animal control people went back the next day to get him and he was gone! The owner said he had taken the horse to a vet to get the eye fixed, so the sheriff called the vet and was told that they eye had been removed but the owner wouldnt allow anything but the removal of the eye, which means it didn’t get cleaned out well and no clean margins were achieved. The vet told the sheriff she refused to release the horse back to the owner, and so the animal control people went and got him from the vet.
The horse had been in so much pain that he literally jumped every time he was touched. You simply couldn’t touch his blind side, he would spin back toward you with his good eye to see where you were. It was like popcorn in a machine trying to get him on and off the trailers. The owner signed him over after a week and I was called to get him. He has been here for one week now, and he is doing fantastic. He still bristles on the first touch sometimes, but after that he is ok. I have picked up both front feet and one hind, but his blind side hind is still untouchable. I was able to calm him anough to cut off the 16 inch long dreadlock he sported as a tail, and he felt much better after getting that matted mess of weight off. He let me body brush him and brush his tail out yesterday, and he is getting a lot better at being touched on his blind side without jumping. It was pretty funny though, the other day he tooted really loud and scared himself into the air:-)
I will be placing him in a sanctuary as soon as I get him calmed down and ew can get back into the eye socket and see what is or isn’t there to do.
I have a new gelding named Royal. He was a confiscation case from the sheriffs department. They were called out by someone in the neighborhood, and when they got there it was an overwhelming sight. Royal had a Sarcoma on his right eyeball the size of a fist, 4 inches long, and hanging out of his eye. It was so heavy it had pulled the eye out, it was infected and the stench was awful. He is between 8-10 years old and hasn’t been handled since he was very young, if at all. The sheriff couldn’t get near him to get a halter on him, so the owner said he would get him penned and haltered so they could pick him up the next day. Well, they animal control people went back the next day to get him and he was gone! The owner said he had taken the horse to a vet to get the eye fixed, so the sheriff called the vet and was told that they eye had been removed but the owner wouldnt allow anything but the removal of the eye, which means it didn’t get cleaned out well and no clean margins were achieved. The vet told the sheriff she refused to release the horse back to the owner, and so the animal control people went and got him from the vet.
The horse had been in so much pain that he literally jumped every time he was touched. You simply couldn’t touch his blind side, he would spin back toward you with his good eye to see where you were. It was like popcorn in a machine trying to get him on and off the trailers. The owner signed him over after a week and I was called to get him. He has been here for one week now, and he is doing fantastic. He still bristles on the first touch sometimes, but after that he is ok. I have picked up both front feet and one hind, but his blind side hind is still untouchable. I was able to calm him anough to cut off the 16 inch long dreadlock he sported as a tail, and he felt much better after getting that matted mess of weight off. He let me body brush him and brush his tail out yesterday, and he is getting a lot better at being touched on his blind side without jumping. It was pretty funny though, the other day he tooted really loud and scared himself into the air:-)
I will be placing him in a sanctuary as soon as I get him calmed down and ew can get back into the eye socket and see what is or isn’t there to do.
