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I for one have had a horse with an abdominal
anerism who died at the age of six.
I had him only two years. Got him to save his
life. He was an arab, 4, full of worms, unbroke, still a
stallion, and weighed around 500 #s. He was SO full of worms
that I thought I was going to kill him just deworming him. I had
never heard of worm caused anerism type of things, so thought once he was
healthy life would go on.
He was a wonderful once I schooled him. He
had natural balance, would do anything for me, played tricks on the other horses
( I have a video of him chasing one of the mares around with a stick and bopping
her on the butt with it., then I rescued her) He got grand champion
at his first ride (a 25 mile CTR) with a score of 99.75, when he was
five. Had just finished the maine 80 and was inbetween that
and the Vermont 100 endurance ride.
We were on our way home from a pleasure ride, reins
on the buckle, just be booping along, and all of a sudden he went down, just
about 1/4 mile from home in the nature preserve across from my
house. I got him up and got him home, had my daughter in law (who lived
next door) call all the vets in the area. To make a long story
short, my vet finnally got the message four hours later, was 1 hour away but
came anyway (GOD bless him). I had been walking him since he went down
wondering what the heck was wrong since he didn't act coliky, just wanted to lay
down. Vet did his exam and said I should put
him down as he was in excruciating pain. I had them do an autopsy to find
out what was wrong. They said he had such worm damage that it had ruptured
his aorta, and it would have happened even if he was in the pasture doing
nothing.
I almost gave up horses as a result of that, I
loved that horse so. But then I would have never had King, who needed
me.
Anyway that is my story of how an anerism can
happen and you don't even know what hit. Same thing happens with
people. Thats how we lost my father in law
also.
Vicki
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