August 20, 2011 - A visit from the vet



Sparkly clean socks!

 I found Rory's flymask on the ground with the long nose partially torn off.  It wasn't outside the shelter where I usually find it.  Rory's face was covered in flies when he came to me so I cut the long nose off and both ears (so Totyo couldn't use them as teeth holds to pull the mask off).  He stood nicely while the vet poked around his neck to get the blood sample, and drew his markings on the papers.  I asked about the flu vaccination and we gave him the first one today.  If I wait until I know he's going to the Royal Winter Fair it will be too late for the vaccinations to do him any good.

I had talked to the vet on Monday about Rory's excess liquid in his bowels, and we had discussed some possible causes.  I washed his legs yesterday so she could see how bad it was, but much to my surprise there were only a few little drops on his fetlocks today.  The only thing that has changed this week is his feed.  We found out last Saturday the three year olds feed will be unavailable until late September due to quality issues and had to do a very quick assessment and feed change because we were almost out of the old feed.  There must have been something in the old feed that changed this year that was causing Rory's problem.