I really don’t think that normal, un-educated in the medical field farmers should be allowed to give shots and such to their animals ….
Friday we decided to take Jaguar to the vet and have him gelded … After getting him back from the trainers it was pretty obvious that Jag is not a performance horse. He has a very quiet disposition and in fact will make a awesome children’s horse. So off to the vet we decided to go.
Being gelded is a fairly normal procedure usually performed at a early age and still normal for older horses (you just need bigger clamps:) We had noticed that Jag had had a bit of a cold and informed the vet. It wasn’t a big deal she just suggested we perhaps give him a shot of penicillian twice a day for a couple days to ward off any infections etc.
Well Saturday I realized that the penicillian we had in the fridge was expired so Sunday I slipped into town and picked up a new batch. Dan was away at work but I’d given lots of needles before so no sweat.
I am sure we have all realized by now that I am leading up to a not so normal procedure. The vet had said to give him 25cc twice a day which is a fairly large dose. Well I did I inserted the needle no problem and injected the drug. Pulled it out and rubbed the spot and that is when all H!!!! broke loose . He went totally bezerk … started prancing and rearing and falling over and getting up and snorting and falling over some more and basically going balistic … My head is racing … oh my goodness what did I give him … he’s going to die on me … what have I done … what should I do … what can I do …
I honestly expected that he would give a few more jumps and die … It was the one of worst 2 minutes of my life … Well he didn’t die … Thank God for that. It took him about 5 more minutes to settle down and go back to eating … He started licking his lips like he was thirsty so I ran and got him a pail of water. When I came back though he really didn’t want to have anything to do with me … Not that I blamed him. But I left the water and then went to call the vet … She’s very good and knows how to handle people as well as animals.. I find out that since this was Jag’s 3rd shot in the last little while that it most likely wasn’t an allergic reation but it could be so best not give him any more penicillian. What she thinks happened is that I got into the blood stream and fed him intervenously. The penicillian is to be shaken and mixed well before injected and I may not have mixed it properly and he got a little bit more of part A than part B. But I am not a vet … I do not know if I stopped mixing it early … I am not sure if I got into his blood stream because their was a little blood when I pulled the needle out but not a lot … All I know is that I never want to go through that experience twice.
I went back out to Jag and I hung around him for quite a bit afterwards because I wanted to pet him and hopefully win back some of his love … He would allow me to touch his nose but he was constantly trying to back away from me … He knows that I did it too him and I don’t think he understands that I didn’t know that he would get an reation from what I did.
Anyway just a typical day in our LIfe in Spedden
I know how he feels. I remember when you used to lick napkins and clean my face with them. I don’t know if you ever did win back my trust from that…
I know how Chris feels….you did that to me since I was a baby till I was a mom my self. and no i dont understand why you would do that to me:D