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["Ann Blankenship" <annb@foothill.net>]

My vet injects them in the back of the rear leg.  The rationale is that if they get sore, at least they can eat and drink normally.  I guess some horses get so sore, they can't even put their head down.   If you  shoot them up high on top of the hip, and an abcess forms, it can't drain and there can be very serious, even fatal consequences.  This happened to a horse at the high-powered show-Arab ranch down the road.  One of those ten jillion dollar horses...  dead from an abcessed injection site.  Too sad.