That
happened at Wild West this year. Someone brought a contagious horse because our
horse came home and had the exact symptoms, then passed it on to another, who
just quit coughing about 2 weeks ago. Fortunately my two young ones who have no
contact with these two, did not get it. I know about 5 others personally who
had the same virus after that ride. If it is the same virus, it takes about a
month before they quit coughing!
Ranelle
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ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Paus Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005
11:03 AM To: Ridecamp Subject: [RC] Pet peeve!
I'm sitting
home today when I should have two horses, myself and my grandson in the truck
and trailer headed to a CTR.
Seems we
brought home some horse bug from county fair last week. Zabbie's nose is snotty
and he's coughing a lot. No fever, no swollen glands, so it's not likely
strangles, but some kind of virus.
I thought
about just leaving him home and taking another horse, but we all know that
sometimes horses can spread germs even when they aren't showing symptoms (so
can people)...
I think in
8years of distance riding, I've had a horse get sick from something caught
likely at a ride only once. I think distance riders are pretty good at
monitoring our horses and not taking them to a ride when they might be sick.
Just a
reminder to everyone out there.. it's better to miss a ride than to take a
possibly sick horse and spread things around to lots of horses. Like keeping
your kids home from school when they are sick, or not going to work when you
are sick, leave your horses home when they are sick!
chris
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my
ship. Louisa May Alcott
