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Veteran BSO horse retired as a charity case
Elderly horse who helped start the Broward Sheriff’s mounted patrol unit is retired after 20 years – but without a pension.
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This Is A Reminder To Vaccinate Your Horse
We could all get a little bit slack with vaccinating our horses. So this is simply a reminder that horses must be inoculated annually for strangles. We recommend vaccinating for tetanus at the same time as strangles. Inoculating your horse is vital to maintain horse health and prevention is much better and cheaper than cure!
Not only could these diseases be severe, debilitating and in some instances deadly, however their economic prices to the owner of the horse could be considerable.
The most essential feature to recognize is that together with appropriate animal husbandry, these diseases can be controlled if not eliminated using the application of a complete inoculation protocol.
TETANUS
Tetanus occurs when a wound becomes infected with the spores of the bacterium, Clostridium tetani. The bacterial spores sprout, multiply and emit a toxin, which affects the nerves, resulting in muscle spasm.
Medical signs of tetanus could include prolapsed third eyelids, muscle inflexibility resulting in a stiff-legged gait, pricked ears, convulsions and spasms causing collapse, and paralysis of the respiratory (breathing) muscles progressing to death.
STRANGLES
Strangles is an extremely infectious disease of horses. Outbreaks generally happen when a variety of vulnerable horses are grouped together. Foals and young horses are often severely affected throughout an outbreak.
Strangles could manifest as fever, depression, loss of appetite, discharge from the nose and swollen glands around the throat and lower jaw region that might form abscesses that may burst. Other complications of infection may comprise pneumonia, airway obstructions and abscesses in the gut, and sometimes death.
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