Spotty: Tana's New Colt!!

[Chanda]

I've had all summer, but have had the blahs and I don't want to do anything.  I barely get the basics done this year.

[dcwolcott]

Sometimes that's just what we go through. Don't beat yourself up, it happens to all of us.  You will find your renewed energy when the time is right. 

[Ryan]

I get that all the time "Where has my mojo gone " ?

[Chanda]

Spotty is feeling a bit punky today.   
While he has almost colic-like symptoms, when he gets up from rolling or lying down, he takes off at a trot or canter, so I really don't think colic.  Perhaps our goofy weather as set off a bout of ulcers.    I took him for a walk and he was animated and ready to walk going away from the corral, and obnoxious and pushy going back to the corral; so started quiet for him, and was more like himself going back to the corral.  Got back to the corral and him promptly laid down.   before I took him on his walk, I gave him a dose of Uckele GUT and digestive support paste, may or may not help, but shouldn't hurt.

[Chanda]

Here's a copy/paste of what I just sent to a friend in a message on FB (so a little repeat of previous comment):
Crappy weather rolling in and I have a colicy or ulcery horse on my hands.  Spotty is feeling punky today.   Doesn't seem quite right for colic, but seems a bit much for ulcers, I don't know maybe he's a pansy.   He seems better after a bit of banamine on board.  He's in a shelter, gated off from the other boys with a tub of water; I had to finish chores and do supper, and take a break; will go check on him in a little bit.  This crappy, unpredictable, unusual June/July weather seems to have set something off with him.   He's had some Uckele GUT digestive supplement, a Nexium (omeprazole for ulcers), and then banamine, which once the paste kicked in seemed to perk him up.   If it's colic, it's not typical; I'd spot him lying down and if I called to him he's jump up and trot or run off.  The first time I took him for a walk, he was a bit stoic going away from the gelding pen, but going back he was leaning and fussing and being his obnoxious self, so I'm not sure what to think.

[Chanda]

All good this morning.  HAd a heck of an electrical storm with rain last night, got 3/4"; all I can think of is that he really felt it coming on and reacted to it.   I was going to give him some more of the GUT supplement this morning, but he wanted nothing to do with it, and was his normal obnoxious self.

[dcwolcott]

So glad he's doing better!!!!!

They have a great sense of things to be, so hopefully whatever ailed him has passed!!

[Anna]

It does sound a bit odd Chanda but you could be right about the weather/brewing storm, some animals are more sensitive to weather changes than others. Hope he's feeling better now.

[Chanda]

Long over due update.
Got a couple pics of Spotty today, he's 5 today.
No idea what kind of a face Monte is making in the one picture, perhaps a yawn.  [If you don't recall, Monte is Spotty's full-brother, 4 years older.]
I'll try to get pics of Bliss when this darn rain quits.

[Chanda]

Forgot to mention.  enlarge the pic with the bay gelding, and you can see Spotty's heart shaped spot on his right hip.

[dcwolcott]

A perfect heart!!  I'd forgotten that, and can't believe that he's 5 years old!  Happy Birthday, Spotty!!  You're as handsome as ever!!

[Chanda]

Where does time go?   He and Bliss were so little, and now they are so big.

[dcwolcott]

I feel that way when I look at my youngest sons who were 9-weeks premature, who are now 40 years old !!   

Time sure passes.....