I was stood outside with the hose, having just filled up a water tank for the horses, I turned my back for a moment, then turned around again to find one of the horses laying on her side, breathing shallow, and her front hooves through the fence, while the rear hooves were in the air doing the Dead Roach imitation.
I thought for a moment she may be playing around, so I snapped a couple of photos of her, then told the baby to stay put and jumped the fence to check Precious out. Her breathing was shallow, and she would not move. There were flies gathering around her en mass.
“Oh Hell! What do I do if she is dying? I can’t exactly mover her anywhere!” My mind took grasp of the situation, and I took the baby in to tell her mom what was up and leave her there while I sought help.
Katrina came out and had a look too, then I ran off to the neighbor’s house to ask his advice. He immediately said it sounded like colic, and grabbed out a syringe, and two drugs from his fridge. Go figure! Apparently I need to have these laying around the house when I have horses, just like I would have aspirin for my own headaches. Well, I’ll have two aspirin for the horses!
Next thing you know, this nice neighbor is over at our house and we are injecting the horse with a sedative and a muscle relaxer to help her clear her bowels, which in the end took her more than two hours to do.
Thanks to the neighbor, Dave, we have Precious on all fours again, and behaving like a horse should! But if you saw THIS laying in your yard…
…What would you do?