in today's video we're gonna talk about what happens when horses chokes
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I hope we don't have a choke situation on our hands here but this just flew out
of her nose so I'm gonna keep a little bit here I just gave him his kitty her
grain
there's nothing I can do at the moment
this is where it's really hard with horses
oh yeah that's all coming out her nose okay
he says that tastes terrible poor thing Miss Kitty is 26 years old
and she gets a senior feed but this just happened just gave her her grain about
ten minutes ago
and I'm not quite sure that we need a vet yet I started filming after about
the third cough that I heard out of her
as you can see it's pouring out of her nose
she has drank a little bit of water today not much I kept her in last night
so about I don't know mmm eight o'clock last night I brought her in simply
because she likes to be in a stall I'm not gonna let her come in just because
she's got so much stuff coming out of her nose
so she's gonna stay locked out of the stall just in case I hate to think this
way but gosh if something should happen the last thing I want is for her going
down in a stall but you can see that stuff's coming out of her nose she was
now horses are unable to throw up
not gonna lie this is kind of making me gag a little bit gosh poor honey I'm
gonna see how much green she actually ate okay she got through half of her
grain
she says yuck it doesn't taste good so she's my old girl she's 26 and she's in
semi-retirement so I do use her still for lessons but she doesn't work very
hard at all and she really needs the exercise so she still does doo doo a
little bit just to kind of give you a history on her we do have her on private
cox which helps her with joint pain because she is older and she's on a a
joint fluid as well and I have her on senior feed
so I'm gonna keep an eye on her here for a little bit and I will be putting in a
call to my vet but I do believe we're dealing with a case of choke here honey
do you want a drink let me take a little drink
I've had one other horse choke and that was rain and it happened over ten years
ago and it looked very similar to this
but she was able to clear it on her own sometimes they can't clear it on their
own and they need to see the vet
or baby
okay I've been observing her for a total of seven minutes and I'm gonna go ahead
and call the vet and ask some questions
and what she said to do is to massage her from the throat latch and see if
maybe there's something lodged in her esophagus that might help it go down and
we're gonna keep an eye on her I'm gonna watch out for couple hours and I'm gonna
get in touch with the vet in a couple hours and give her an update on how
she's doing and if this does not pass on its own then I'm gonna call and we're
gonna tuber so this is on the vets radar she knows what's going on and the fact
that I was able to call her ten minutes into noticing the first sign it is
probably a really good thing because that gives a better chance of being able
to catch it don't know and now she wants her food I should have asked her that if
she could eat her food I suppose if she shows interest in her food it's a good
sign we'll see so a few minutes ago she did
not show any interest in her food so we'll see if she's able to eat this
without it being an issue I sure hope so this has been the year of vet bills I
have never had vet bills like I have this year and it's all been things that
was completely not there's really nothing I could do about it so Rosie was
in January with all of her issues and then if so if you haven't seen Rosie
story I'll post a link above be sure to watch that because man that was crazy
and it can happen to any horse so it's good to just get the knowledge and I was
able to document every single little thing well I see Miss Kitty's private
cocks pill in there yes yet right there that's her previck
ox she takes that for her pain for joint pain and the vet did ask me if she was
still on private Cox because if she wasn't on private Cox than we would have
given her a dose of Banamine and then with Mainzer just with all of the random
weird stuff that happened with him and the amount of times that I had to call
the vet so if you haven't seen man's journey I highly recommend checking that
out because it's been so popular a lot of people have really enjoyed following
his journey and seeing all the weird stuff that can happen and the way I look
at it is I think I think the reason we had so many strange things because
nothing was preventable and it was all just stuff that just happened but I
genuinely think it was like God's Way of saying well Brandis the type of person
that's going to share this information with everybody and create awareness for
others so let's go ahead and let everything happen to her so she can help
educate everybody else that's that's my positive way of looking at 2019
and all of my random vet bills and such
you know there's nothing I can do about it so you might as well try to somehow
be positive okay it's been about two hours and Miss Kitty clearly feels a lot
better so this is a good outcome here I think I feel like we got very lucky
because this could have turned into a pretty bad situation basically what
happens when a horse chokes is there's a mass that gets lodged in their esophagus
and when that happens no food or water can go down they can still breathe it's
not like humans when we choke it it's completely different
so with horses the biggest problem with choke is that they can aspirate and it
can cause pneumonia so that is something that I'm gonna I'm just gonna really
watch her and make sure that I don't see this happening again because that's
pretty scary so in it it's just a fluke I mean this can happen to any horse and
she's never had issues eating and pelleted seen your feed before so I
don't think that that's a problem she just happened to it
maybe swallow too much at once and it just didn't go down so good learning
experience for everyone though I think and stuff to watch for so I am gonna get
in touch with my vet and let her know how she's doing and then I'm gonna keep
a real close eye on her and make sure that we don't have any further issues
now something that the vet recommended doing is to rub the esophagus from
starting at the throat latch down and just sort of massage the horse's neck
and sometimes that can help clear the blockage so I did that with Miss Kitty
for oh I don't know probably about two minutes and right after I was done doing
that she went over and took a drink of water and seems to be doing fine ever
since then so I don't know if that really helped or if it's just a
coincidence but hey I'll take it so that's just something to keep in mind if
you've ever got a horse that you're dealing with a situation of choke maybe
try just kind of rubbing they're rubbing their neck a little bit and trying to
free that clog well I'm really glad to see that Miss
Kitty seems to be feeling better you know I've I've had a couple
situations in my life where I've dealt with choke and so I kind of know the
signs to watch for so the moment that you see stuff running out of your
horse's nose that's a really good indication right there but just I was
really lucky that I could be here to watch every little thing happen so it
was just coincidence that I just happened to be there so you think about
how many horses go through stuff like this without anybody ever seen it look
at this little cutie pie hanging out next to Miss Kitty Miss Kitty's over
here just munching on her hay Mainzer is having himself a little snack he's
getting so big my mom lost a horse last fall from choke and it was sad because
he aspirated and got pneumonia and there was just really nothing that they could
do to save him so it is something that I've seen happen enough times where I
know how how dangerous it can be so just I really hope that this video can help
somebody and just being aware of the signs and what to watch for because it
may may help save a horse's life I hope now you may have seen I have a video
that's called the the worst part of owning horses and if you haven't seen
that video that's Miss Kitty's mom that's in the video so we had her tell
she was almost 37 and Miss Kitty's 26 now so if you want to see a video of her
mom and our absolute least favorite thing about owning horses that'd be a
good video to check out I'm gonna keep a close eye on Miss Kitty and just stay in
touch with my vet and now that it's on my vet's radar if something does come up
where I need her to come out she'll be prepared for it well I hope that you
were able to find some value in this video maybe found it a little bit
interesting or in some way or another this can help you for a future situation
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