Why is it that people don’t DO what they SAY they will do?
Why not just be honest?
Or maybe you are older and your memory is failing?
People at the barn felt sorry for Persee because he was being tortured by flies. They asked if they could put a fly mask on him..and actually did even tho I had said no! It really isn’t worth it. The mask is continually found trodden in the dirt.
Fly spray, roll on, SWAT, equi spot-nothing worked...and then he developed an oozing wound on his belly from fly bites.
Well here he actually has it protected with straw and dirt
After cleaning
One of the gals even applied Silver Spray on it.
I asked the barn over if she thought he needed a vet prior to this and she had said no (I was in North Carolina at the time and had asked her -after she volunteered, to keep an eye on it And she said she would treat him daily. I also agreed to pay her and told her where to find my medical supplies.
It was during this time that another boarder took a picture and texted it to me-open and bloody with flies and BEES ON IT!!!
I WANTED TO CRY! I felt helpless and would not be home for another 5 days. She gave a contact for another boarder willing to help me. This gal was an angel sent from heaven. I immediately called the barn owner and let her know someone else would be taking care of Persee
She treated it every day for me and sent me updates. After I returned home she alternated days with me.
I asked her about the barn owner-she shook her head, not wanting to say too much except-“don’t depend on her to follow-through on anything.“
We thought it was getting better, then it opened up again while I was in the Eastern Sierra for a week.
On return I called the vet out.
Dr. Howard from Loomis Basin decided it was a Summer Sore and proceeded to sedate Persee and scrape all of the granulated tissue from the wound. It was then injected with lots of steroids to help knock out the inflammatory process.
Sorry! I don’t know why this pics load sideways and upside down...can’t seem to change it!!! Grrr!
Sedated
After being scraped
Persee gets a fly sheet with belly band
Nevel got one too but it was’nt long before he had it upside down...so he only wore his two days. Persee ripped big holes in his by the third day but the belly band still works! Two weeks later a vet was out again for shots, sheath and teeth work and also gave Persee another injection of steroids in his wound. It seems to be healing some...Agha so I’ve dropped my treatment visits back to every other morning. That 35-40 min drive was really getting old at 6:30 a.m. everyday!
And I found a fly mask that seems to stay on longer than the usual kind as it has several buckles like a halter, but even with that he gets it off and Sue and Jocelyn help keep an eye on that too seen he had fly larvae in his eyes that the vet scraped out also!
Cool weather. PLEASE COME SOON and kill these flies and bees!!!
It’s hard work floating teeth when you have to stand on your head! 🙄
