09/24/2025
Update: Owning horses is a truly humbling experience. Most days, you admire their beauty, power, and keen social instinct. And yet, there are a few, but meaningful days, where they can turn your whole world upside down and make you feel like a complete rookie.
So help me and my chronic heartburn, by the time the Mobile Vet arrived, this old horse was up and grazing in the pasture like he hadn't just taken years off my life. No temperature, no elevated heart rate or respiration, good gut sounds...and looking at the two of us like we were crazy for thinking he was on death's door just an hour ago.
Elko stood patiently for the exam and then took off at dang near a trot to join the rest of the herd. I am speechless. Grateful that he's OK, and deeply annoyed.
We made the right decision to call for help. The nature of horse health is very unpredictable, and colic is the number one rapid killer of horses. Yet, I can't help but feel like a crazy overprotective horse girl that just spent $600 to have a mobile vet take his temperature.
Ugggg. Welcome back, Elko. You fantastic butthead.
Keep Elko in your thoughts this morning. We found him down in the back of the pasture. Has been down for several hours with no interest in rising
Knowing now that he's 28 puts his struggle in perspective for us. A mobile vet is on the way to either help treat or help let him go. Grateful to find anyone working to do that in this storm.
We're holding our breath....
