Gelding surrendered during Sampson County Investigation
August 5, 2008:
USERL was asked to assist the county with a cruelty investigation involving a thin gelding with an old, infected leg injury. The owner surrendered the horse to USERL and was transported to a quarantine facility that same evening. The injury is severe and infected, and the gelding had surgery August 7th at Neuse River Veterinary Hospital where he is recovering and doing well.
USERL was asked to assist the county with a cruelty investigation involving a thin gelding with an old, infected leg injury. The owner surrendered the horse to USERL and was transported to a quarantine facility that same evening. The injury is severe and infected, and the gelding had surgery August 7th at Neuse River Veterinary Hospital where he is recovering and doing well.
Above: The gelding, now named Favre, on August 5th when USERL investigators were asked by the county to look into this case.
Right: The wound, from a barbed wire injury, cuts deeply into the pastern and coronary band all the way into the hoof capsule and to the coffin bone.
Right: The wound, from a barbed wire injury, cuts deeply into the pastern and coronary band all the way into the hoof capsule and to the coffin bone.
Above: Favre's injury was fully evaluated and found to miraculously not have infection into the coffin bone or joints. On August 7th, Dr. Bob Meyer and Dr. Shelley Whitehurst of Neuse River Veterinary Hospital performed surgery to debride the old tissue.
Right: Favre looks out his hospital stall window.
Right: Favre looks out his hospital stall window.
August 9, 2008:
The wound is now beginning to heal and Favre should make a full recovery.
The wound is now beginning to heal and Favre should make a full recovery.
August 9, 2008:
Favre grazes just before being loaded onto the trailer to a rehab foster farm. He will need daily bandage changes and wound cleaning, along with antibiotics, to successfully heal this injury.
Favre grazes just before being loaded onto the trailer to a rehab foster farm. He will need daily bandage changes and wound cleaning, along with antibiotics, to successfully heal this injury.
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September 19, 2008:
Favre is doing great! He's also beginning to gain weight. He currently is showing no signs of lameness.
Favre is a sweet boy and is enjoying the company of some other rehabs on the farm now. He may need further minor surgery to trim back proud flesh, but otherwise is expected to recover completely, although with some scarring.
Favre is doing great! He's also beginning to gain weight. He currently is showing no signs of lameness.
Favre is a sweet boy and is enjoying the company of some other rehabs on the farm now. He may need further minor surgery to trim back proud flesh, but otherwise is expected to recover completely, although with some scarring.
Left: Favre's outlook has improved dramatically with the resolution of his injury.
Right: The wound is now left unbandaged a day here and there to let it dry. He may need additional minor surgery to reduce the proudflesh, and will be evaluated for lameness issues further along in his recovery (he is currently walking and trotting sound).
Right: The wound is now left unbandaged a day here and there to let it dry. He may need additional minor surgery to reduce the proudflesh, and will be evaluated for lameness issues further along in his recovery (he is currently walking and trotting sound).