Hi Rues..well i was out picking up the dog poop took calihoula and corey dog. i was way up and calihoula way down and eating on something then i saw a rabbit white tail a baby one i yelled to the top of my lungs tried to hurry down there and she hurried up and ate it. just sick over that. pissed off i finally got a hold of her dragged her in and beat her butt put her collar back on and will have to beat drama's butt when he pulls on it to not choke her. and got out the rope tied it to the deck and now she will go out and be on that. my little corn chip did not come when i called him so i had to walk clear down there pick up his lard butt and carry him up to the house. did not let him have it he is asleep in my room on the bed with the ac and fan going. he knew i was mad. so with them poor horses and bunny i am having a bad day at black rock. jp knows what that is. royals was winning 2-0 but now it is 2-1.
Hi Ra..i am not going to watch the preshow to that race today. i just can't. i think the race is at like 5:30 pm. will watch just the race and have the sound off on the tv. don't want to hear any talking. i know ra should not race in the mud. i know amerian pharoah did and won but what a chance to take. stupid. if it is still pouring and muddy i may not watch it either. risk a horses life for a stupid race. i see JP was nice enough to send you some of his go!
Hi Willi! Me too loved bert in witness.
Rues moon blindness..
A mare comes in from the field one afternoon with an eye that is red, irritated and tearing. Her owners chalk it up to flies and buy a fly mask. While the mask helps keep insects away from her eyes, the mare continues to suffer with painfully puffy, weepy eyes. By the end of the week, they notice that the eye looks cloudy and the mare is reluctant to come out of her stall into the sunlight. Alarmed, they call the veterinarian who concludes the examination with a worrisome diagnosis: uveitis, which is more formally known as periodic ophthalmia, or ERU, for equine recurrent uveitis.
The mare?s red and weepy eye is treatable with atropine to help dilate the pupil and reduce the discomfort, followed by antibiotic eye drops and anti-inflammatory drugs. However, uveitis, commonly known as ?moon blindness,? often recurs.
Moon blindness is the most common cause of blindness in horses and mules. It affects up to 12 percent of horses worldwide and about 25 percent of Appaloosas (Quarter Horses being the next most vulnerable breed). The symptoms include:
tearing
cloudiness on the surface of the eye
a type of scarring called butterfly lesions
redness and puffiness around the eye
muscle spasms which keep the eye tightly closed
rubbing the eye
head shaking
loss of balance or stumbling
pain and irritability
excessive squinting and blinking
a sensitivity to bright light (photophobia)
constricted pupils
In the worst cases, symptoms can escalate to include:
detachment of the retina
calcification of the cornea
cataracts
atrophy of the eye
eventual blindness in one or both eyes
The clinical signs may reappear every few weeks or months once a horse has suffered an initial episode. Each flare-up can last up to a couple of weeks, and with each succeeding episode, the damage accumulates.
Aggressive treatment as soon as symptoms are noticed can minimize the detrimental effects, but many horses still gradually lose their vision.
The disease usually affects one eye at a time, but it?s not uncommon for the second eye to also develop symptoms, sometimes turning a horse completely blind.
I put eye medicine in her eye every night when she comes in and i take her mask off. mask helps protects her from poking her eyes with something out there in the pasture. i put back on oral medicine too a couple of weeks ago. have to watch and treat it all the time and still she lost all vision in one eye and very little left in the other. rose is an appy too. and her eyes now perfect but then so was sodas once and one day not.
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