Re: Re: Horses requiring vet care at Tevis

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

Used to be you didn't see many horses being treated unless it was a serious
situation...Actually---seems to me almost every horse after a hundred mile
ride would benefit from some IV administered fluid ...Perhaps in the near
future that will be the norm. What makes me crazy is to see the same horse
being treated ride after ride...Those are the riders who need to be
disciplined in some way--Don't you think if it was somehow ascertained that
so-and-so's horse had to be treated in three rides in one season that
so-and-so should have some action taken against him???

----- Original Message -----
From: <Dbeverly4@aol.com>
To: <DVeritas@aol.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 1:29 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Horses requiring vet care at Tevis


> In a message dated 7/21/00 11:54:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> DVeritas@aol.com writes:
>
> <<  The "stigma" of providing an IV bag to horse should never outweigh
taking
>  care of the horse at the vet check, if possible. >>
>
> Having had to "go there" once with Harca  3 years ago -- bad day.  I'd
agree,
> let's not make the mere idea of IVing a horse so reprehensible that we
don't
> do it when needed.  When the IV was offered to Harca as a preventitive, I
> took it!  For whatever reason he had a really bad day and finished a 50
> needing some help.  We had vetted out (all A's btw) i took him back to the
> trailer and he pretty literally crashed.  Took him straight back to the
vets
> for help.  Thank God they were competent and able to help him.  He
definitely
> needed the IV.  I would hate to see someone avoid that option for their
horse
> because of this recent discussion.
>
> Sylvia
>
>
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