<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by radio talk:
DH its not what part of the country you are from that denotes the cars. BNT’s and those that want to imitate them are all headed for the fancy car routine. Been happening for quite some time.
People will always imitate those they want to be like. Be it the BNT or the Olympic rider. That also goes for the drugging problem we are seeing. Many have no idea why some of these drugs are given. They just know it works for whats their name, so why not? Some happens due to the trainers actually being taken. Here they have spent their clients hard earned funds, they’re going to make this horse be what it was sold as. Others, it’s just easier, plain & simple.
DH, you never did answer whether you had looked up the long term effects of Dex. You might want to rethink what you’re giving to him. There are other options. Not nearly so invasive or having long term effects on your horses health. All horses do creak. Given the amount of work show horses have to do. Dex is a quick fix, but its lasting effects can be more devastating than its fixes.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok cars, whatever. I don’t think I explained that point well. Being a horse trainer is not a glamorous job. They do not make tons of money. They would be best to choose another route if that is their desire.
I really doubt that people are giving horses tranquilizer for no reason to be ‘fashionable.’ No one is that moronic. They are doing it to get results.
And I know all of the long term problems associated with dex. In the levels that we use we have NEVER had one horse have a problem. I don’t know how many hundreds of horses I’ve seen in the last 10 years in my trainer’s care but they hardly ever even get colds. None… NONE have foundered. Ever.
I take that back, a school horse did founder once, but obviously it wasn’t showing or getting dex.
Dex isn’t really what I would consider a quick fix. It is a medication. It makes the older horses more sound. No more no less. I have had no devastating results. We give 8cc of dex per week a hosre is at a horse show, and for not more than two weeks in a row. It is broken down into a dose over 2 days now that the rules do not allow 8cc to be given at once: 5cc on Thursday and 3cc on Friday, assuming their main days of shwoing are on the weekend.
I always want to learn, for some reason medication fascinates me- be it human medication or horse medication… I pick up even the real scientific names fast, I don’t know why. Explain what side effects this low dose of dex has on horses, since I have never seen the bas side effects.
And what are the alternatives that can be used with bute? (besides arquel or ketofin and robaxin)?
And aren’t they about to approve another NSAID? Is it a good one?
Why D’ya Do It?
There are a ton of TX people on there.
