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ERICKSON
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Username: Aerick
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, Mar 18, 2004 - 10:07 pm: |   |
WE PURCHASED A REINING HORSE LAST FALL. WE DID A PRE PURCHASE EXAME. WITH HER VET (NOT OURS) HE WAS SAID TO BE CLEAN. A WEEK AGO HIS KNEE WAS SWOLEN. DID EXRAYS WITH OUR VET HE HAS ADVANCED ARTHRITUS. HE WAS GUARENTED SOUND AT PURCHASE. THIS IS A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION SO HE WAS NOT SOUND AT PURCHASE. WE CAN NOT USE HIM AS A REINER UNLESS WE INJECT HIS KNEE WITH STEROIDS EVERY MONTH. WE BOUGHT A USLESS REINING HORSE. WHAT CAN WE DO? CAN WE GET MONEY OR AT LEAST SOME OF IT BACK?HE WAS GUARANTEED SOUND IN WRITING WITH NO TIME SPECIFIED. THANKS AERICK |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 10109
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 19, 2004 - 6:28 am: | |
Hello Erickson,
Has the horse has been sound for the last 6 months?
DrO |
ERICKSON
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Username: Aerick
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 19, 2004 - 3:42 pm: | |
we did not ride in the winter but he was not limping. but artritus is a pre exsiting condition right (according to my vet) so he had arthritus when we bought him even though he seemed fine. so wouldn't that still be considered unsound? |
ERICKSON
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Username: Aerick
Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 19, 2004 - 3:52 pm: | |
arthritus was present when we bought him even though he showed no signs i guess he has been unsound the whole time (right). I cant be shure he wasn't druged in the first place to pass the exam. any more info. on the definition of soundness would be greatly appreciated. thanks for your help |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 10117
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 19, 2004 - 7:38 pm: | |
Animals can develop arthritis at any time and sometimes remarkable bony changes can occur very quickly in response to trauma or infection. If your vet is so convinced, and he should know better than to make such statements, ask him does he guarantee that the horse's he examines will remain free of arthrits for 6 months.
Of course I cannot see the horse or the radiographs but if the horse was not lame when bought and not lame for the past 6 months I have a hard time faulting the vet. A horse may be sound at the time of a pre-purchase exam but that is not a guarantee he will remain sound for another 24 hours.
DrO |
