This is just silly now. That is not what I said, nor what I was trying to say. Why are you so desperate for a fight?
I am starting to feel like a dog being dry humped on by another dog. Please move on.
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This is just silly now. That is not what I said, nor what I was trying to say. Why are you so desperate for a fight?
I am starting to feel like a dog being dry humped on by another dog. Please move on.[/QUOTE]
To answer the OP’s original question, yes gabapentin can cause horses to become quiet or slightly sedated when it is administered at high doses.
I have never given it to a horse but it does make me drowsy.
I’m a bit late to this conversation, FWIW, my horse was on the maximum dose, 20,000mg/day for over 6 months, it did not make him sedated or quiet, but it worked as a perfect anxiolitic. He became the most bombproof horse you could imagine, yet stayed very alert.
In all likelihood you could have landed a helicopter in his pasture and he would have looked at it with interest instead of galloping off in a panic.
We had no other side effects, if you can even call this a side effect, I quite like him being that brave all of a sudden, lol :).
Thanks, everyone. The horse has been on the G for just over a week and seems absolutely himself.
I’m wondering how you get the horses to eat gabapentin. Can you put the pills in their feed? Do horses eat it? Any advice?
IIRC I just put it in his feed - pretty sure I was mixing his grain with soaked alfalfa cubes at that point, so would just have put it in there. I don’t recall it being complicated to get him to eat it, but he was one who’d lick bute from the bottom of his feed tub.
