In The Tent with Two Fillies

Monday was a GREAT day. Filly was without splints & wraps for TWELVE hours. She did fabulous. She spent the day in a paddock with Grey Girl & their dams. Those 2 fillies would sure like to play if only Mommy Dearest would let them. Filly's bad leg is coming up off the heel bulb so the cuff with heel extension is working. Yippee! The new glue isn't working to keep the cuff on so it'll be back to the 2-part apoxies. Hopefully Adhere can be ordered with a quick arrival time. It seems to work the best. Filly's good leg is strengthening & very seldom takes a bad step. Her bad leg is also strengthening but is at a much slower rate. The tendons & ligaments in the pastern are still very lax, allowing the fetlock to drop down in the back & alternately buckle forward. But at least the leg is no longer knuckling over & the toe very seldom catches. Filly is using her heels & walking on her hoof bottoms just like she should, no longer walking on tippy toes. The splinting process isn't taking as long now. The good leg is now in a simpler wrap-around support that can be done with Filly standing. In fact after an hour or so from when tonight's splints went back on, Filly was acting like the good leg was bothering her. CMK took off the splint & wrap & repositioned it with Filly standing quietly. She's such a good filly with a super disposition. After that all was good & Filly was happy.

Poor little Grey Girl is battling foal heat scours. Sometimes it's so hard to be a foal. Mommy Dearest got panicky when CMK & DW put Desitin on her filly & it's a wonder no one was trampled. It's really hard to work with a foal when the dam is so nervously protective. It makes it dangerous for humans & foal a like. It also makes it very difficult to gain the filly's trust because she's learning from her dam to fear people. While Grey Girl is afraid & wary, she is curious & will sneak up behind CMK to investigate. Hopefully Mommy Dearest will settle down. Grey Girl's contraction is significantly better. She's still a bit too upright in her fronts & one hind is still on the toe some, but she's improved enough that she isn't going to need wraps & splints. Thankfully it looks like the VE/Se treatment, along with another in a few days, will be all that she needs.

So the start to another week is bringing hope that all will be fine with these 2 wonderful fillies. For Filly it's been a very hard road at times, but she's been such a little trooper. She truly does epitomize the arabian "in the tent" disposition.