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I have added this in 4th May 2012 Dimbleby Pip our beautiful full of life miniature Shetland is ill. He cannot weight bare

on 4 feet and for the past 13 days has been walking around on 3. He has had a scan and it showed a very slight rotation

of the pedal bone which could be when he first had laminitis. There is no infection. If Dimby is no better by Monday he will

will be going in to the vets to stay for a while so they can do more tests. No one knows what is wrong he is in pain and he

has heat from his foot and leg, he is also showing lameness from his back leg but this could be from the strain of walking 

on 3 legs.......... I wanted to mention this because it was from Caddy and Dimby that I created this site and to all of you

from all over the world that follow what I write, I thought I would let you know. I will update on Dimbys page on this web

site to let you all know how he is doing xxxx

For all of you that are new to here my name is Tonette....... Hello! I hope that you enjoy what you read and maybe

I have given you some information that might just be of some help to you, or if you don't have horses then you have

enjoyed reading what I have wrote :-)....... please email me with any thoughts or suggestions that you might have for

this web site I answer all emails and if it is something that I think would benefit others I will put any suggestions on

 one of the pages :-)

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you to us :-)

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I am not a vet, I have been around horses since I was 5 years old when I first started to ride many, many years ago!

I was very lucky that when I was 11 years old I had my first pony, when I was 16 I went and lived in on a Equestrian Centre

 to take my BHSHM. From the age of 27 until I was in my middle 30s I had a break from horses (due to work commitments

 and money!). I have had Caddy now for 10 years and Dimby for 5 years. I have learnt a lot over the years and learnt from my

 mistakes. I have seen many horses suffer through some owners not understanding what horses need to survive. My husband

 thought when he first met me that if you owned a horse that you drove by the field a couple of times a week and waved at

 them, and if they looked all right then they were..... He was so surprised at the amount of looking after they take and also

 how much money they cost to look after....... I am so lucky that he loves our two as much as I do, he is very good at mucking

out and poo picking and all the other stuff too!!

Caddy and Dimby have taught me so much, because of this and from what I have learnt and seen over the years I thought

 maybe someone would be interested in what I have learnt so I decided to put my thoughts, and what I have learnt on this web site

 to treat them. I have a horses health pages this covers horse first aid, how to take temperature, pulse respiratory

 it also covers strangles, colic and other illnesses. I have a summer management page and also worming programme

 and why it is so important to worm. There is also a Laminitis page please be aware of this dreaded illness it can attack

 any horse or pony, I really would read this just so that you can recognise the symptoms should your horse or a horse

 you know show the signs, the earlier it is caught the better the outcome ...... anyway you get the idea I am trying to

 put everything that I can think of this web site, but as I have already mentioned if you can think of anything that

 I may have missed or that you would like to see then..... email me :-))