Truthful Tuesday

I have a couple confessions this week... We'll start with the big one, because I can admit when I'm wrong. I cannot continue to blame the trainer at Eros' barn for his lameness. The vet was out Friday, and what we discovered is that he has a shoeing issue. Now, it does concern me a bit that trainer couldn't tell the horse was lame... but that's a different problem, and if you don't know a horse, it's sometimes hard to tell what their normal is.

I'm not sure if you all remember back at Thanksgiving when Eros' pulled  a shoe. When that happened, he also lost a good chunk of his hoof wall. It wasn't a real issue, he was sound, and the farrier had enough hoof to nail a shoe on, but it became a problem.

When we did the pre-purchase exam on Eros, he did flex positive on his right front, but we aren't exactly sure why. It's the same sort of flexion that a horse with navicular changes would trot off positive, but his navicular bone is perfect on the x-rays. It's a bit of a head scratcher. Anyway, after he lost the shoe, and farrier had to do his best with what he had to work with, the toe wound up getting a bit too long, and the heels compressed some too.

on the left is his x-ray from Friday, and the one on the right was from the pre-purchase. Note all that extra toe on the recent x-ray

He also wound up with more pressure on one side of his foot.

again, new on left, older on right

You can see how crooked his leg is sitting right now. Fortunately, my farrier and my vet have a good working relationship and we should have him straightened out (literally, no pun intended!) in no time. Doc pulled the shoe Friday, and said to wrap it with some animalintex poultice for a couple days, (handwalking ok) and then have the shoe put back on in another day or two. He went on some meds as well, which he will stay on for a few weeks while things are moving back to where they're supposed to be. Shoe went on yesterday, so I'm allowed to hop on tonight and see what we have. No miracles expected yet of course, but there should hopefully be some improvement already.

It's one of those things where it sucks that it happened, but I'm kind of glad it did because now we know what to keep an eye on with him. He does have some kind of mystery achilles heel in the right front, so we need to pay extra attention to keeping it comfortable. Lesson learned! Sorry to Eros for having to learn that the hard way. Poor dude.

Confession number two is that I always told people I didn't like Indian food, but it turns out I just never really gave it a chance. My brother and I met up with our cousins from California on Saturday night (my little cousin was interviewing at Uconn!) for dinner. They picked an Indian restaurant and I was a little dreading that. But my bestie gave me a recommendation for something she thought I'd like, and it was delicious. Like I can't wait to eat it again delicious. So I have to eat my words (lol, that pun is intended) when it comes to disliking Indian food for the last 30 somewhat years. My bad.

Anything you need to confess today? Have you had a similar issue with any of your horses? Thoughts on Indian food?