Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Pepper needed the emergency vet


Got a phone call last night that Pepper wouldn't get up-- the news a horse owner dreads. Dinah and I rushed out to the stable. He had a fever, was breathing heavily, wouldn't eat. Ben gave him some Banamine, which worked wonders. The vet said to hose him down because it sounded like fever. She heard sand sounds in his gut. They've been feeding him on the ground the last month, bad bad. But by morning he was okay again. This is a picture from the early days. He's now about 25.

2 comments:

Linda Davick said...

Pepper is very handsome. Now it's Wednesday ... Hope he's still doing OK!

Anonymous said...

He's a handsome boy still, and feeling much better.