I need to take Traveller in to the vet clinic today to get his coggins and I'm nervous about it cause something is going around here... (at the clinic there are sometimes twenty horses lined up) at the big camp out ride I went on last month... I rode with a small group and not with the main body of the large ride group which stopped and ate lunch together. Now many on that ride in that large group have horses getting snotty noses and coughs, not strangles, no bolus, some say its a summer cold , flu etc. I just HATE that stuff! oh my gosh my horses got it one time and it went from one to the other and weak horses get it and die, like my old GB I dont think he would survive even the most minor illness (even as I write that i think well, maybe its time but really I dont want his last days being where he struggles for each breath thru a snotty nose).
but anyway. any idea on how to protect ? It seems to be airborne. Also, a friend works training others crazy horses and she was working at a facility where some had it, then even as she thought she washed her hands well she went home and now both her horses have it. But she was also on that big ride! any ideas? all mine have flu/rhino/herpes shots... Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
