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Location: Kansas | You can think I'm crazy all you want, but after talking to an animal communicator, I totally believe in it. All I told her were the name and color of the animal and she told me exactly their personality and what they "said." Had her do three horses and my three dogs.
So anyways.. I'm going to share with yall what the lady told me about my mare and see if you have any ideas as to what could be the problem (going to discuss this with a vet also, of course, so don't harp on me for that).
The problem that I've been having with her is her first (right) barrel. Loping the patern she is fine. Running she will bite the bit and run past it. The animal communicator said she felt:
-tightness in the chest, dicomfort in the sternum/girth area
-On the left side, there was tightness in her poll and it hurt in her teeth/jaw area to turn her head right (I never mentioned barrel racing, problems turning, etc... just name and color)
-she gets headaches on the right side of her head
-Neck/whithers: sensitive/pressure
-pain in the middle of her back area
-back end: pressure in both stifles and in right hock.
-when I'm riding, she said she feels stiff where my legs sit (girth/ribs), she "locks up" in the hip area turning right, and her right front locks up too.
The lady said that my mare said "sorry for being *****y." That really got me there because I call her h*ll b*tch lol
So you can either get a good laugh at my expense if you think the communicators are phony, but if you have any ideas I'd sure appreciate any clues I could ask the vet about. :) |
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Location: Great NW | Your horse needs a good Massage/Chiropracter. then she may need a vet for her hocks. If she were mine I would start there. She has classic symptoms of being mis-aligned. She will need several treatments to keep her together.I would start with Chiro maybe twice then the vet to see if hocks need injected then finish with a couple more visits to the chiro. |
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| I would suggest getting a good chiro and massage, stay off of her for about a week, then take her to a vet and get flexion tests of all joints and legs then block if needed, then X-ray, don't cheap out on the xray |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I called a couple times just for the fun of it. Both times she said nothing was wrong with him and he wasn't sore anywhere but he wasn't turning like he used to. Turned out he had broken his pelvis sometime before. I guess I don't hold much stock in them anymore.
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Location: Kansas | I used to have her gone by the chiropractor all the time.. that didn't help. Had her right hock injected a couple of times (in different parts of the joint).. didn't help.
But I will try taking her to a different chiropractor and seeing. |
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Location: Kansas | wyoming barrel racer - 2014-02-11 12:23 PM
I called a couple times just for the fun of it. Both times she said nothing was wrong with him and he wasn't sore anywhere but he wasn't turning like he used to. Turned out he had broken his pelvis sometime before. I guess I don't hold much stock in them anymore.
Maybe it depends on who you talk to? She said my dog Leila was happy and when I had her ask if she minded the other dogs being around she said "I wouldn't care if they left." Sounds like something she would say if she could talk because she was a spoiled "only child" for three years. She said my one little dog that seems to pout on the couch all the time is happy, but feels like she gets less attention than everyone else (spot on). And the third.. oh boy. When I play with him I tell him in a baby voice "oh you're just so stupid aren't you?" and he gets all excited and wags his tail lol The lady said that when she tried asking him questions he just stared at her. New he wasn't smart.... |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | HarlanLivesOn - 2014-02-11 12:28 PM wyoming barrel racer - 2014-02-11 12:23 PM I called a couple times just for the fun of it. Both times she said nothing was wrong with him and he wasn't sore anywhere but he wasn't turning like he used to. Turned out he had broken his pelvis sometime before. I guess I don't hold much stock in them anymore.
Maybe it depends on who you talk to? She said my dog Leila was happy and when I had her ask if she minded the other dogs being around she said "I wouldn't care if they left." Sounds like something she would say if she could talk because she was a spoiled "only child" for three years. She said my one little dog that seems to pout on the couch all the time is happy, but feels like she gets less attention than everyone else (spot on ). And the third.. oh boy. When I play with him I tell him in a baby voice "oh you're just so stupid aren't you?" and he gets all excited and wags his tail lol The lady said that when she tried asking him questions he just stared at her. New he wasn't smart....
Oh she had all kinds of things that were spot on. She nailed the personalities of all of them. But his started to change and I knew he was hurting somewhere but no one could fine where. I hoped she could get something. But no. It's fun either way. |
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| HarlanLivesOn - 2014-02-11 1:24 PM
I used to have her gone by the chiropractor all the time.. that didn't help. Had her right hock injected a couple of times (in different parts of the joint).. didn't help.
But I will try taking her to a different chiropractor and seeing.
Did you have X-rays? |
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Location: Florida.. | HarlanLivesOn - 2014-02-11 2:24 PM I used to have her gone by the chiropractor all the time.. that didn't help. Had her right hock injected a couple of times (in different parts of the joint).. didn't help. But I will try taking her to a different chiropractor and seeing.
do both hocks all joints.. not just one hock .. imho.. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | After a year of lameness issues and my colt quit working his left barrels I finally found he had a negative palmar angle in his left hind foot! Pulled X-rays as my last ditch effort as we had injected hocks, stifles and everything else. Saw several chiropractors that only helped for awhile, From here on out I will start with X-rays of feet and work upwards from there! Spent thousands last year all due to lousy shoer! |
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Location: Kansas | Yes. Her right hock had a bone spur in it and that's why we were injecting. Since it did nothing for her, I took her to another vet that found a tear in her right suspensory. Got that healed up and the problem still persists. |
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Location: Kansas | mreklaw - 2014-02-11 5:27 PM
After a year of lameness issues and my colt quit working his left barrels I finally found he had a negative palmar angle in his left hind foot! Pulled X-rays as my last ditch effort as we had injected hocks, stifles and everything else. Saw several chiropractors that only helped for awhile, From here on out I will start with X-rays of feet and work upwards from there! Spent thousands last year all due to lousy shoer!
Yikes... well I'm glad you finally found out what was wrong! |
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Location: Dearing, GA | HarlanLivesOn - 2014-02-12 4:49 PM
mreklaw - 2014-02-11 5:27 PM
After a year of lameness issues and my colt quit working his left barrels I finally found he had a negative palmar angle in his left hind foot! Pulled X-rays as my last ditch effort as we had injected hocks, stifles and everything else. Saw several chiropractors that only helped for awhile, From here on out I will start with X-rays of feet and work upwards from there! Spent thousands last year all due to lousy shoer!
Yikes... well I'm glad you finally found out what was wrong!
I would xray before I injected anything. |
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| HarlanLivesOn - 2014-02-12 4:48 PM
Yes. Her right hock had a bone spur in it and that's why we were injecting. Since it did nothing for her, I took her to another vet that found a tear in her right suspensory. Got that healed up and the problem still persists.
I had one that had bone spurs and everytime he turned the tendon would get hooked on the spur, we never injected we just fused his hocks and burned the spur off, and he came back ten times stronger |
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Location: Florida.. | Just Let Me Run - 2014-02-12 5:54 PM HarlanLivesOn - 2014-02-12 4:49 PM mreklaw - 2014-02-11 5:27 PM After a year of lameness issues and my colt quit working his left barrels I finally found he had a negative palmar angle in his left hind foot! Pulled X-rays as my last ditch effort as we had injected hocks, stifles and everything else. Saw several chiropractors that only helped for awhile, From here on out I will start with X-rays of feet and work upwards from there! Spent thousands last year all due to lousy shoer! Yikes... well I'm glad you finally found out what was wrong!
me to.. I just meant if you inject one do the other to.. |
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Location: Randolph, Utah | I firmly believe you have to take what the animal communicators say with a grain of salt.
If you think there is a problem, take your horse to a good vet and have her checked. |
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