This message is from: "Les" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jean
You wouldn't want a seat belt. I have seen people make corners way too sharp
and fast and flip the cart. Can you see why you would want to be some where
but under that cart.
Back in November we had a bad Sunday happening . Naturally a horse never has
an accident on a weekday during business hours. I was at home watching a
football game ( about 2 PM ) when a neighbor's brother came to the door
saying " your horse has just had a bad accident ". It seemed that the
neighbor had watched this Appy pick up this big piece of black plastic bag
( we had bad winds for days and it must have blown into our pasture ) and it
had scared him. He raced around the pasture with it in his mouth with our
fjords following him. He then hit the gate breaking the latch, went up this
slope and tried to jump our 9 wire New Zealand fence. He broke 3 wires then
hit the end of the cattle guard, flipped coming down hard on both front
knees. At that point he got up and walked over to my neighbor to say " I
need help."
When I got there I was very mad at him. He was a mess! He had about 7
cuts, 2 were major. The biggest one was on the top of his right front leg,
about 6 inch long oval with a large flap of skin. The other bad one was on
the back right and was about 3 inches. He had 3 cuts on the top of his head
and both front knees were skinned and bleeding. Now living in the country
means few Vets and hard to get, but I called and left a message. Another
neighbor came over and we started to treat this horse. I have had horses
most of my life but few bad accidents. So I'm not good about what all to
have and do. I try to have well, safe horses but that does not help when you
have a mess. His knees started to swell and he was going into shock . So I
applied ice and gave him 2 grams of bute ( which seemed to help the shock )
with some grain. We cleaned all the wounds and I applied a Depends pad to
the big wound. finally the Vet called about 8:30 PM and I told him what we
had done. He said it sounded like all that can be done today and he would
call at 8 AM to see how it was going. He never did get back to me, but I had
another Vet out about 4 PM on Monday. He did some more cleaning ( he liked
my Depends dressing but he left it open.
The horse healed fine but it is so hard to keep things out of a pasture that
horses can get in trouble with. I can feel for you Lisa. Some times I wish
horses came with an on off switch.
