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KC Quarter Horses

Hi all,

We took a few horses to WASJA over the weekend, one of which is our new mare Paris.

We are not sure how it happened, but she somehow got injured in the truck on the way home.

She is a very big girl, so we assume she somehow managed to do this damage on a divider that had mesh on it..........where we have never had any injurys in the truck before, somehow this happened. If we had realised we would have gone straight to murdock, however it was not until we got home & we lowered the tailgate that we found out that things were not good.

We are very lucky that our vet in Bunbury made the time to drive the 2 hours to get here to stictch her up.

Her prognosis is very good..........it looks really bad, but it is just muscle & skin. Apart form being upset to see this happen to any horse, it is particularly upsetting to see such a terrific mare get sidelined jsut as she starts her new career.

Donna jumped her in one class on Saturday.........her first track at her first outing & she was super. The good news is she will recover fully, the bad....that it happened at all.

I would like to thank Hutchy for coming out & giving me some moral support & Dr Alan Mc Greggor for coming out on his Sunday, to fix her up ......he is such a wonderful vet to us & I am very grateful for his support

so here is the damage.....before stitching....or part way through

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and after ..........thanks Hutchy for even thinking to take photos

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I am sure this wound will look far worse before it looks better, so I will take progression photos as we go

izzy2512

Ohh poor girl, sorry to hear about the bad news

QHfan

OMG kc, you must have been gobsmacked when you dropped that tailgate!!!! Poor love!!!! I hope shes going to be ok- yay for bute!!!!

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tarz

Wowee, ouch! Poor girl, what a shock when you got her out!

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Imperial

holy c***!!!!!!
i would have freaked if i opened the tailgate to fine my boy like that!!!!

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Skito

i thought it would be the end of my girls jumping career, it was over before it began... thank god its not as bad as it looks!!!!!! thankyou to hutchy and mum and mcgregor.
when i seen her standing in the truck i could see blood on her leg and i literally balled my eyes out!

she will be ok =]

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KC Quarter Horses

Yes it was....there was blood everywhere & we had to get 3 horses out before we could get to her. The photos do not actually show just how deep the wound is .....but it is deep.

She is an amazingly sweet horse & I can only hope that this does not physcologically ( sp) damage her .........which Alan tells me can happen with mares.

He tells me to give her lots of love & attention & hopefully she will mentally come out of it OK

cabmaster

i ddidn't think it was THIS bad when Donna told me about it.

hope she recovers ok.
poor thing.

cait

HOLY SH*T!!!!!!

Poor poor girl .... That looks nasty!
Hopefully she will be fine

Wonder how she managed to do that on a divider tho!

Oldhack77

oh my god jen & don! you guys would have been horrified when you saw her

thank goodness you were able to call in the right people to help you fix up this new girl

keep us updated and good luck

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