Rain :(

Cold and dreary rain. And so many of you seem to be fair weather friends. I am lonely. Ginger is feeling sorry for herself and Milo is getting fat. And the new students starting this week are getting spoiled by the empty barn and arena.

When you finally do decide to come out to the barn, there is a sign up sheet for Fall deworming. All the horses need to be dewormed after the first hard frost with a broad spectrum dewormer that does bots. We are going with Equimax this year, but you can also go with Quest Plus or Zimectrin Gold. Cost of us deworming your horse is $20.00. If you want to buy it and do it yourself, the cost is $18.00.

Is anyone interested in going to the Harvest show at Amberlea? Dressage, jumpers, and Hunters. I will go if we have at least three horses to go. Otherwise perhaps we will do a little fun show at the barn like last year. That was fun....and much more affordable!

The vet news on Coregel is still uncertain. The new x-ray isn't quite showing what would be expected if she had ripped her collateral ligament along with pulling off a peice of bone, so it is possible that it was not damaged....we are going to ultra sound on Friday to see what soft tissue damage is there....fingers crossed!

Dexter on the other hand continues to allude us with the source of his issues. It is very odd for him to be as wonky as he is, for as long as he has been, yet show no sign of muscle atrophy or uneveness. We had hoped that he would start to show some signs of wasting so we could get a better picture of where the issue could be. If only he could talk so he could tell us where it hurt! Of course we would likely have to sit through a week of compaining and begging for treats before he got around to discussing his pain issues. Perhaps the winter off will somehow allow whatever it is to heal. Or perhaps the Saskatoon clinic will finally get approved for Scintography and he can finally get his Nuke scan done....at least then we would be able to pinpoint the general area of concern.

Karen