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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on August 26, 2016, 09:47:37 PM

Title: For horse owners
Post by: CLKD on August 26, 2016, 09:47:37 PM

'strangles' has been diagnosed near Inverness - take great care!

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: dulciana on August 27, 2016, 06:30:35 AM

Just read about it in the Inverness news and it doesn't seem to be a bad outbreak.  Apparently, it tends to come and go in the Highlands and they're quite used to it. 

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: CLKD on August 27, 2016, 08:54:56 AM

Can be fatal though, owners may not be aware down here.  They have shut 2 yards in Scotland from what I understand.

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: Pennyfarthing on August 27, 2016, 12:44:45 PM

IT is very nasty.  WE have two horses and one of them had been on a yard where a couple of horses had had strangles but we didn't know it at the time.  Thankfully she was not affected.

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: CLKD on August 27, 2016, 01:30:45 PM

Don't Vets advise owners  :-\

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: CLKD on August 27, 2016, 02:30:34 PM

Did the yard owner not lead them straight off the property  :-\

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: CLKD on August 27, 2016, 04:51:37 PM

Another reason not to buy a horse!

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: star35 on August 27, 2016, 05:25:41 PM

I  wouldn't be without mine. Spending time with her just grooming for me is so relaxing, it's my place to go when ever I feel down. Seeing her every day just lifts my mood. They are such wonderful creatures.

Title: Re: For horse owners
Post by: CLKD on August 27, 2016, 07:27:31 PM

They are with 2 fields between me and them  ::)  actually I love horses.  I used to ride but was never strong enough to stop them running away with me, it's the nearest I've ever been to travel sickness.  A horse ran away with me on a beach in the 1960s when the sound barrier was broken, twice.  Another ran away with me in the 1980s when we got separated from the rest of the riding group.  NEVER again!

My family have always ridden and some cousins still own horses.  They have a tendency to stand on my foot  :o :( and of course, they can't feel it under their hairy hooves!