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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | My mare has a bone spur in her coffin joint. We was keeping it injected so it doesn't bother her. But here lately she's not lasting near as long on a injection. The vet told us she was going to keep getting worse but no matter what he did if we didn't stop her pawing she would never be 100% sound. She only does it at shows and in the trailer. She a nervous horse especially when I go somewhere strange. After describing it to the vet he said he thinks she does it out of nervousness/stress. When we go to shows she stands on mats and shavings and we just ordered her Soft Ride boots. She also gets pawing chains but he wants us to find something to go on the front of her leg to protect it so that if she does paw and she hits the front of her leg like in the trailer then she's protected. Someone told me they had heard of pawing guards and that's what there were for but he didn't know where them came from. I googled it but had no luck. I bought a set of the padded No Bow wraps but there fleace and in Alabama there going to be HOT! Any suggestions on stopping her if the chains don't work and something to protect the front of her leg. |
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Location: Where if you don't like the weather...wait 5 mins! | My travelling partner from College had a horse like this. Some how they shaped a shoe to go around his ankle and he wouldn't paw with it on. We hauled him with them on all the time with no sores or rubs. I'll ask her. |
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Location: Where if you don't like the weather...wait 5 mins! | If you shape the shoe so it goes on, on the skinny part it should work. I just called her. It worked awesome!! |
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| Try hobbling the horse
If she is that nervous, maybe bring her a friend that stays with her at the trailer.
Also I would be asking the vet if the spur can be lasered off |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i would hobble her as well and check her for ulcers...
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | mruggles - 2014-09-12 12:00 PM
i would hobble her as well and check her for ulcers...
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She's already being treated for ulcers. She gets it once a day but twice a day at shows longer than a day. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | cheryl makofka - 2014-09-12 11:26 AM
Try hobbling the horse
If she is that nervous, maybe bring her a friend that stays with her at the trailer.
Also I would be asking the vet if the spur can be lasered off
We asked about having it removed. He said it was in the worst possible place. Any other place he said they usally could remove it but not where hers is. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | TessBelle - 2014-09-13 11:06 AM mruggles - 2014-09-12 12:00 PM i would hobble her as well and check her for ulcers...
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id be more inclined to haul her alone.........
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| Hobbles were the best thing for my two horses ! It didn't take anything to teach them to wear them either . They just accepted them. Which was quite surprising to me for the one mare . Good luck in whatever you decide ! |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | mruggles - 2014-09-12 12:17 PM
TessBelle - 2014-09-13 11:06 AM mruggles - 2014-09-12 12:00 PM i would hobble her as well and check her for ulcers...
m She's already being treated for ulcers. She gets it once a day but twice a day at shows longer than a day.
id be more inclined to haul her alone.........
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Her previous owners had her scoped before I bought her. So I've always kept her on something. But I'm weird I'll change treatments every few years because I think she will become immune to it. I have 4 horses running so very very rarely is she hauled alone. The vet did suggest us getting her dwarf pony or goat to keep her company in her stall but I'm afraid she will kill it. His other suggest was me sleeping in her stall... I love her but it ain't happening! |
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| My horse has NO medical problems what-so-ever and still paws non stop no matter what. She's in a 2 acre dirt lot (some random patches of grass grow til they're eaten, haha) with my gelding and she doesn't paw when she's loose (unless occasionally when waiting for food) but when she gets tied, to the trailer, in the trailer, on a hitching post, to a gate, ANYWHERE and walked away from, she goes nuts and starts pawing. I've done the "leave them tied and ignore them" thing. I mean for days on end she was tied. Many many times. Doesn't do a thing. Hobbles, she paws with the small amount of slack she can. Kick chains- she didn't even notice. The usual first steps were throwing pebbles and whipping. Doesn't work. I'm thinking of getting a cheap dog shock collar. Found one that has a vibration button so I'm thinking to use that as a warning, and then it has a low and high shock. She DIGS!!! Like a couple feet deep, easily. She paws with passion! haha. I'm at my wits end. If I do all I can think of to get to her stop for a short time, she will start scratching her teeth on things...such as my steel trailer which is now missing paint and rusting....THANKS, SADIE! Soooo it's 100% behavioral and I don't know what to do anymore. I feel like if the kick chains didn't bother her, the horse shoe trick won't either. She is tough, you can whip her and she will take it and not care. So I don't like the shoe's will frighten her into not doing it. Any advice would be great. Sorry I can't offer any more advice to you. But you aren't alone! |
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In holly colorado. Gateway products. They sell a a product similar to hobbles, that you could possibly make yourself. Its similar to a full belt that goes below the knees and a strap goes over the back and down the other side. Mostly used for weavers but I think it would work for pawing also. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | HannahRodeoCowgirl - 2014-09-12 5:55 PM
My horse has NO medical problems what-so-ever and still paws non stop no matter what. She's in a 2 acre dirt lot (some random patches of grass grow til they're eaten, haha) with my gelding and she doesn't paw when she's loose (unless occasionally when waiting for food) but when she gets tied, to the trailer, in the trailer, on a hitching post, to a gate, ANYWHERE and walked away from, she goes nuts and starts pawing. I've done the "leave them tied and ignore them" thing. I mean for days on end she was tied. Many many times. Doesn't do a thing. Hobbles, she paws with the small amount of slack she can. Kick chains- she didn't even notice. The usual first steps were throwing pebbles and whipping. Doesn't work. I'm thinking of getting a cheap dog shock collar. Found one that has a vibration button so I'm thinking to use that as a warning, and then it has a low and high shock. She DIGS!!! Like a couple feet deep, easily. She paws with passion! haha. I'm at my wits end. If I do all I can think of to get to her stop for a short time, she will start scratching her teeth on things...such as my steel trailer which is now missing paint and rusting....THANKS, SADIE! Soooo it's 100% behavioral and I don't know what to do anymore. I feel like if the kick chains didn't bother her, the horse shoe trick won't either. She is tough, you can whip her and she will take it and not care. So I don't like the shoe's will frighten her into not doing it. Any advice would be great. Sorry I can't offer any more advice to you. But you aren't alone!
I'm defiantly not alone. I think me and you own the same mare lol. All the way down to the teeth raking and will take a whipping and just stand there and keep pawing. I havnt tried the horse shoe either because I don't think she will pay it any attention. |
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