people4ponies blog: Tufty's Condition Has Improved!

Monday, 15 April 2013

Tufty's Condition Has Improved!

Tufty had a really good night. We've never been so pleased to see manure in the stable! There were two lovely piles in the stable last night before I went to bed. To make sure she was still eating, I hand-picked a bowl of cow parsley and grasses for her. She ate a few pieces of cow parsley and then polished off the grass...so back out I went (at 1am!) with the torch to handpick a heaped bowl of picked grass. When it arrived in the stable, Tufty ate all of it.

At 6.30am, she was looking fine and there were a couple more heaps in the stable. I took her back out to her little enclosure and she happily tucked into the grass.

Emma the vet (who has been brilliant at following Tufty's case from the beginning) came back at midday. As Tufty was looking so much brighter and everything internally seems to be working more normally, we were both happy for Emma to look at Tufty's teeth to see if she could be made more comfortable.

Having their teeth checked is quite a strange experience for a pony and Tufty had a little bit of sedation to help her cope and stay calm. Actually, we are very pleased because she had a lot more teeth at the back of her mouth than we were expecting and they were in fairly good condition. There's a wobbly tooth on the right side that isn't quite ready to come out yet, and on the upper left there were some large hooks that Emma was able to file down.

When Emma had finished, I sat with Tufty for a while for some quiet time whilst the sedative wore off. After about 40 minutes she was back to being her perky self again. I took her back out to her little field and she happily started chomping on grass straight away. She's been out all afternoon and there were more heaps in the field...She's done really well and I'll keep monitoring her tonight and will hopefully put her back out in her field tomorrow morning...