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[RC] Grays and that damn 'skin cancer' - Kristi SchaafKeith wrote:
Do your gray arabians have a propensity for slow growing skin cancer? It is an
issue in our world.
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Ah....melanomas. The reason I vow to never buy any more gray horses. I have two
gray Arabs. The 'white' one is 19 and has never had a melanoma (which means
he's beating the odds as supposedly 80% of gray horses have them after age 15).
The heavily flea bitten one got his first melanoma at age four and we've been
fighting them off ever since. He's ten now, and recently had to have one
surgically removed from just above his eye. Nasty looking surgical wound site
when it was done but it's healed nicely, luckily. Add the scars from the ones
removed from his butt cheeks and a necklace scar from a bad fencing accident,
and he's starting to look like one bad ass tough horse (when, unfortunately the
opposite is true...sigh...).
Kristi
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