04/20/2016
T'Neesha, my Quarter Horse, has gotten SO thin. I'm still waiting to hear back from the dentist on a date and estimate. But I'm at a loss as to what to do for her. I do not feel any sharp spots. But she can't eat even little cut up bits of apples and carrots. She no longer even tries. I feel like a fool, standing in the field, begging my horse to please eat even part of an apple. You can put your hand between her upper and lower front teeth and she can't bite down. And T'Neesha has always been my nipper. Not a biter, just never really got the whole "take food with your lips not your teeth" thing quite down. I'm just sick. She is getting all she can eat hay and pasture. Grain every day with beet pulp and calf mana. She has no fever, stools are fine, been dewormed, breath smells fine. She also wabbels at times, like she is drunk. So I combed the WHOLE property for Snake W**d, or any other w**d I could not identify. Nothing! No new cuts, no ticks or other fly bites. I'm just lost with this one. She is only 16 years old. She did have part of a tree fall on her after that ice storm in December, but she did finally heal from that. But about the time all seemed to be well there, I began to notice eating changes. So I don't think one has anything to do with the other. I'm just lost. I've had this horse sense she was 6 months old. If I did not know better, I've think she'd gone on a modeling diet. There it still a sparkle in her eyes when I go out to see her. But I can also tell she is in pain. I just don't know where.
