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| I have literally become obsessed with my new colt. The last 3 horses I have completed on have come up with issues in the Right Front foot. So i have found myself staring at my shadow when I ride to see if I can spot lameness, make him turn in circles both ways each time I pull him out of his pen to see if he is sore. I think I might need a doctor visit for xanax! Anybody else " look" for stuff? |
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Location: Oklahoma | Every. Single. Time.
I love my horses and love the time I spend with them, but it's hard not to reminisce on the days when I was horse free and not paranoid! |
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Location: United States | YUP, sometimes it consumes me during a ride. But my horse performs so so nice and is so happy. I get realistic with myself and say if she hurt, she wouldn't work perfect and eagerly. But I understand!! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I do it too. |
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| Awesome. It's nice to know I'm not alone! Lol. I actually won't look at him when I catch him and walk him to the trailer to saddle. I don't want to see if he takes some little tiny step wrong. Lol. |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | I too am the same!! About to pull my hair out!!
My gelding fractured his proximal splint in January getting kicked from bullying another horse. Though he just popped it, gave him 1 weeks stall rest 4 weeks pasture rest, got back on something still didn't feel right. Went to vet ,x ray showed hairline to the proximal splint no displacement,3 months small paddock confinement with 4-6 weeks complete stall rest,after all this got back on, a month later goes lame again, back right, pos to hoof testers, bad bar abscess, vet parred out huge hole, 3weeks stall and hoof wrapping,right when it was time to get back on he develops a respiratory infection!!!!!  So now I feel paranoid!! But I have come to realize and my advise to you, it only makes you a better horseman to be able to tell when something isn't quite right, and getting to know your horse, his ways, movement, pain tolerance, better than you might know yourself! Again no horse is 100% sound in every way, is important to know what is normal for him and what isn't. Hope this helps you!
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FLITASTIC - 2014-10-18 8:58 AM Awesome. It's nice to know I'm not alone! Lol. I actually won't look at him when I catch him and walk him to the trailer to saddle. I don't want to see if he takes some little tiny step wrong. Lol.
My 4 year old has had 5 abscesses this year, plus a bruised/cracked cannon bone and soft tissue injury from hanging a leg in a panel, plus she had surgery on her hock 2 years ago after splitting the point open and rupturing the tendon sheath and not long after that knocked the point off one hip on a doorway.
She made a bad step yesterday getting her out of the stall for the farrier and I about had a heart attack. I heard it but didn't see it--luckily, he was watching her and saw that she caught her toe funny on the threshold and walked off fine. If what they say is true about it's the good ones that get hurt, she should be something grand. LOL (I thnk it's a miracle that any baby horse survives to see their 5th birthday) |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Yup! we have a saying "you can't kill the bad ones,and the good ones always find a way to kill themselves" |
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| Lol I never used to be like this. But after having had three fluke conditions in my good horses that were all in same foot I am paranoid. So funny cause my.horse could be.sore on a hind leg and I would never know it. To busy focusing on that right front. Lol. Before I purchased this colt he had full x-rays all 4 legs. They are sending those to me for peace of mind. Lol and your right, have not had him long enough to judge pain tolerance and just natural movement differences. |
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Location: Montana | I understand! My mare always comes up with some new scratch (not quite a cut but something enough that it scabs over) almost every week. So I look to see if she acts sore, and if not I leave it be. But when she is acting off, I'm watching her every move to see if I can find something and "swear" I feel something off and other people are like, "she looks fine!" LOL. Totally get where you are coming from, ha-ha. |
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| With trying to rehab my horse who is coming off a soft tissue injury I harassed my vet any time I noticed something different. I was so paranoid it would be career ending.
Thankfully I went to the big dogs in Lexington and got a final check up and got the okay. It is hard to not be paranoid sometimes. I am glad I am not the only one! |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | I'm doing the same thing, both of mine are out of shape, now getting back In shape every time be for I start working them I lead them around the dry lot both directions then stretch their legs an necks then start ground work and after I completely walk them out and then give em a lil massage pretty Sure I do more warming up an cooling out then I do working them out! As I just don't wanna sore them up while I'm getting weekends off so I can ride, even considering getting a chiro out just to make sure they arnt sore. |
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Location: Texas | hence the reason why I went to vet school :P |
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Location: PNW | imturnin3 - 2014-10-18 9:29 AM
Yup! we have a saying "you can't kill the bad ones,and the good ones always find a way to kill themselves"
Like sunglasses: can't lose the cheap ones, yet expensive ones seem to spontaneously vaporize... |
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Location: on my horse | Gawd yes! I am so OCD about my horse it's ridiculous. I lunge him a few circles almost every time before I ride him just so I can stare at him obsessively and make sure he isn't lame. He doesn't need to be lunged but I must stare at him! I'm always thinking I'm feeling something when I'm riding him and the gals that I ride with are so sick of me going "is he lame?!" "I think he's limping!!" when he's fine every single time. I also stare at my shadow lol.
In my defense he was a chiropractic nightmare when I got him and I've played hell trying to get him to a point that he doesn't have to see the chiro at least once a month. But now I've added that to my list of obsessions. I'm a certified equine massage therapist and am always massaging him and poking at him to test him for soreness.
ETA: He's the first horse I've had in 12 years that has been completely sound with no chronic issues. My last horse went navicular and I had to put him down at 6 years old, the horse I had before Redman destroyed a tendon when my neighbor's dog ran him through a fence, my Gunner horse had bad hocks, and my childhood horse that I had for 12 years had coffin bone issues later in life ( but stayed sound with no competing) and eventually cancer took him from me at 32 years old.
I think I need therapy after reading this 
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Location: San Diego, CA | I do this daily. Analyze, critique, analyze again. Oh man. Was that a bad step. Is he hurt or just a little sore, is he fine? I better check him again.
I think my husband is over my constant "I better call the vet!" |
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| Thanks all! Its nice to know I am not alone. Lol went to a race today and he was just fine! In over it. Lol |
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Location: on my horse | So obsession of the day... I'm almost positive my horse was stiff on his left shoulder when I lunged him his standard 2 minutes  
he is going to the chiropractor this week so we shall see if the stiffness improves, it was totally there though I swear! |
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| Im the opposite, I rode mine at a race yesterday and he was fine. THen I refused to watch him walk rest of the day. Literally led him and closed my eyes when I put him in his pen! |
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Location: N Texas | Oh, I absolutely do this too...every single ride. However, unlike you, I watch the horses in the pasture to see how they're moving, just to add to my anxiety
I sometimes miss the days when I knew hardly anything about horses and wouldn't think twice about a slight limp or misstep. You know what they say, ignorance is bliss! |
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