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Angela S
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Username: vera
Post Number: 31
Registered: 6-2008
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 6:39 pm: |   |
I was chipping away at the ice in my horses water trough with these nippers that have a plasic coating on the handles. Well a small peice of the plastic broke off and fell in the water. I looked and looked and looked and couldn't find it to get it out of the water. I would have normally dumped the water and refilled, but it's 17 deg F and my watering situation would not allow for me to easliy refill the trough. I'm OCD so this question might be stupid, but if my horse was to ingest this peice of plastic would anything bad happen? Should I try and dump the trough? The peice was only about 1/8" in diameter. |
Elizabeth Kaufman
Member
Username: ekaufman
Post Number: 748
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 7:14 pm: | |
Do you have a butterfly or fishing net? If the piece isn't floating, then it seems quite unlikely that your horse will ingest it, but if you're going to lose sleep, I'd try and fish it out. |
Sara Wolff
Member
Username: mrose
Post Number: 4291
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 7:42 pm: | |
Angie, the horses will be fine! I hate to appear stupid also, but what is OCD??? |
Diane E.
Member
Username: scooter
Post Number: 3336
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 7:50 pm: | |
SARA!! all horse owners are OCD...Obsessive compulsive Disease. |
Diane E.
Member
Username: scooter
Post Number: 3337
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 7:53 pm: | |
Oh and Angela even though I am OC too I wouldn't worry about it. It may not have even fell in there, could have went flying somewhere else. |
boots
New Member
Username: boots
Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 8:26 pm: | |
Angela - Since you are worried enough to post your fear, try the fish net. You will feel better. Dumping may cause ice for the horses to slip on unless you have a safe dumping spot -more to worry about! That piece is smaller than the thorns that come in some bales of hay. |
Sara Wolff
Member
Username: mrose
Post Number: 4293
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 8:29 pm: | |
You're right about that! I plead guilty. I knew "OCD" sounded familiar, but with the memory I couldn't remember it!
I used to wish you and Angie and I lived closer together; now I'm glad we don't. Between the three of us together we'd have to have a "keeper" to watch out for us! |
Shirley Johnson
Member
Username: shirl
Post Number: 646
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 10:24 pm: | |
Well after all this time, now I know what my problem is: OCD! Yup. Good to know I'm not alone.
Shirl |
Angela S
Member
Username: vera
Post Number: 32
Registered: 6-2008
| | Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 - 10:36 pm: | |
Oh Funny! I'm so glad to have you guys I feel so much better. |
Rachelle E. Morris
Member
Username: rtrotter
Post Number: 113
Registered: 4-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 - 6:28 am: | |
Hi everyone,
I agree with the OCD theory, but I think I am much better when I have lots of horses rather than one or two. I seem to get much less stressed when I have more to do. Now that I am down to two, I obsess over the tiniest things that other people wouldn't think twice about.
Rachelle |
KatR
Member
Username: kathrynr
Post Number: 40
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 - 7:35 am: | |
Ohhh Rachelle so that's why I don't sleep worrying over everything - I need more horses!!
Can you come by and talk to my hubbie for me and tell him we need to move to a bigger piece of property?... |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
Moderator
Username: dro
Post Number: 21963
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 - 9:42 am: | |
I concur with Sara: a 1/8th inch piece of plastic is not a problem even if the horse ingests it.
DrO |
Vicki Zaneis
Member
Username: vickiann
Post Number: 827
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 - 11:14 am: | |
One of my guys scrapes pieces of plastic out of the feeding dishes with his teeth and swallows them. Then they pass through in the manure and are deposited out in the pasture where I occasionally see them. |
Angela S
Member
Username: vera
Post Number: 33
Registered: 6-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 - 8:06 pm: | |
I was looking at the end of the nipper handle where the plastic came off and I think that it was probably more like a fourth of an inch instead of an eight. See here goes my OCD. |
Diane E.
Member
Username: scooter
Post Number: 3355
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 - 7:34 am: | |
Angela you need to learn how to ignore things!! It works really well. Just imagine the plastic went flying and is laying in the pasture somewhere...it works! Calms the OCD when you learn to imagine something else really happened, just be careful, cuz' then you will think you may be going crazy it's a delicate balance |
LL
Member
Username: frances
Post Number: 760
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 - 1:17 pm: | |
Do you think horses give their owners OCD, which then extends into the rest of their lives too, or that OCD-type people are more likely to be drawn to horses in the first place? |
Sara Wolff
Member
Username: mrose
Post Number: 4302
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 - 3:56 pm: | |
LL, that's an easy one! I used to be perfectly normal, and the longer I have horses the less normal I get. I'm not talking just OCD either! |
Angela S
Member
Username: vera
Post Number: 34
Registered: 6-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 - 8:34 pm: | |
Yeah, all of my animals (dogs/cats/horses) give me OCD. It seems like it wasn't that bad with the horses until I brought them home. Now it's hell. You should have seen me the first few months they were home. I slept in the barn the first night. My husband thinks I'm crazy. The only person that would ever listen to my rants was my Dad and he passed away so that is when I joined this board. I have a BS and a MS in Animal Sciences and I work in a surgery research lab so you would think that I should know something, but then I freak out about the littlest things. I know just enough to get myself in trouble. I guess that's why ignorance is bliss. |
Angela S
Member
Username: vera
Post Number: 35
Registered: 6-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 - 8:36 pm: | |
Or maybe it's the disease that doesn't allow me to think straight. |
Fran C
Member
Username: canter
Post Number: 1784
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 - 7:23 am: | |
Yup, I get less normal and more OCD the longer I have a horse. I'm afraid at this point there's no turning back.... |
Lori
Member
Username: maggienm
Post Number: 874
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 - 8:21 am: | |
Maybe ocd individuals are more prone to get horses?
OCD is a big part of my life, how would I be organized without it? |
warthog
New Member
Username: warthog
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
Not to feed all the OCD on here but seriously our two colts, brothers six days apart, ate a trot line, string and stainless steel leaders, that had been buried for 40 years when they were about 5 months old. When they grew large enough the black fecalith formed from the ball of string and steel leaders dropped down into their small colon and caused a total blockage. The first one to colic didn't get to surgery in time because he showed no symptoms until he was totally blocked. He survived but his digestive system did not work so he had to be put down. The second one had surgery in time just by dumb luck and is fine. I still have both fecaliths, about three inches in diameter given to us by the surgeons. So better safe than sorry. Pick up anything you find and check all areas in pastures and paddocks and stalls as often as you can for trash - especially if you have youngsters. They are total idiots and will eat anything. We checked daily, found part of the trot line, picked it up and put it in the garbage never dreaming that the colts ate the rest of it and that five months later it would cost us $14,000 and we'd lose one of them.
So sometimes being OCD saves lives. |
Sara Wolff
Member
Username: mrose
Post Number: 4310
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 - 11:22 pm: | |
So, Again; why do all those poor horse kept behind saggin barb wire fences with all that junk lying around do o.k. while those of us that try and take care of our horses have horses that do stuff like this???
Glad you were able to save one at least. How sad about the other. WHY would a horse eat a trot line? No wonder we all have OCD! |
