The ulcers may have had something to do with it. Is it a certain
season he does this?Could it be a "displacement behavior"? you mentioned
Weaving--- Like Cribbing, usually once they start that it affects the
brain and they get some sort of sedatiave effect from it. Is it in an area
that there maybbe a water source (and he gets carried away and can't
stop)?
He does it in different places - the middle of the
pen (200 X 200 ft, all dirt), along the fence, in his stall.
If you interrupt him and get him doing something
else, lounge him, ride him, give him a bath, does he go back to this
behavior and/or in the same place?If he returns to the same place , there
could be somthing "located " there, and he gets carried away--starts
logical and ends up neurotic....
It's hard to interrupt him, but I can get him to stop and he
won't start back up right away. Sometimes hours later he'll pick a new
spot and start digging again. I don't know what starts this up.
The pacing always comes when he wants something (to go ride, to get in the
other pen, food, etc) and can't have it. The digging has only showed up
twice before in his life (he's 10). It's just really bizarre. He
gets into this trance-like state when he's doing it.
And last but not least , he could just be neurotic or
have a neurological blip and be having an "episode". Of course
a vet can check him out, as soon as he starts this--but vets don't always
see them on a day to day basis... Good luck let us know.
Horse epilepsy? But instead of seizures, digging
episodes? Guess we can just do what we usually do and blame
the blue eye on it. I mean, one blue, one brown, he's got to have
a multiple personality, right?
