A whole month.

Radar is in fine shape today, very bouncy, very happy.

Campero is not as good on his feet as I would have wished. He has gone backwards a little bit. The weather has been a complete curse and to give the others a respite from nights in the cold and wet, Campero has been too long on the concrete yard and it has not helped him. He is quite footie on stones.  Having said that, I took him for a walk earlier and about 1/4 mile from home he spotted some sheep, pulled away from me, turned tail and trotted for home.! So he isn't feeling bad is he?? No doubt that was MY horse today, not Nikki's horse, who never misbehaves :-)))) It's a bit like parents, when the kid is good it's my kid, when it's bad it's YOUR kid.  I'm just glad he was perky enough to do it, and sound to trot on the road too.

After a month, the navicular is certainly on its way out. He is not stiff in the morning, or any other time, any more. He can turn tight circles without missing a step (also an indictator that this current footiness is not laminitic in origin because if it was then his foot should hurt on the turn). There is no doubt that his problem now is foot sensitivity and not navicular.  But I am concerned that he isn't right on his feet when he was last week. I am keeping a daily diary of his food, exercise, how he eats and how footie he is. This is to try to identify if any changes are affecting the sensitvity of his feet, or if this is just part of the healing process.

It would be much easier if he did not have the insulin resistance, because then I would know what was going on. But he does, and it makes him very interesting as well as more difficult to manage. Two days ago he ate very fast. Not  ravenously as he had done, but noticeably faster than usual. On the other hand, I had been building up his exercise, and he may simply have not had enough food for his level of exercise and been hungry!  His eating is back to normal but I have had to slack off the work due to his foot sensitvity. Did the work cause the sensitivity and the hunger? Or was the hunger the IR and did the IR cause the sensitivity? You see my problem here??  Only time will tell.

In the meantime I reassure myself with the knowledge that Tetley was far more unhappy on his feet at the month stage than Campero is now, and tell myself to have patience, which as you know is never my strong point!

C