The wire, not the quarter :-)
It's no wonder she didn't want to eat. The wire was entirely inside her tongue. She's a lot happier now and eating well.
"My Horse Won't Eat": A Non-Dental Reason
A couple of weeks ago I was called out to see a young thoroughbred that wasn't eating (for 2 days) and drooling excessively. "Drooling excessively" was an understatement, it was literally pouring out of her mouth. I sedated her and used a full-mouth speculum to safely examine her mouth. I was looking for a foreign body of some kind. At first I didn't feel one, then I squeezed her tongue and felt a wire inside of it. A local lidocaine block and a small incision and look what I got:
The wire, not the quarter :-)
It's no wonder she didn't want to eat. The wire was entirely inside her tongue. She's a lot happier now and eating well.
The wire, not the quarter :-)
It's no wonder she didn't want to eat. The wire was entirely inside her tongue. She's a lot happier now and eating well.
