It's a Wrap!

I'm having a helluva time doing the bandaging, just can't seem to do it so it stays put! This morning the whole thing had slipped down & his whole knee was exposed, with horsehair & "stuff" stuck to the wound! Once I cleaned it it looked pink and nice & no smell (that's gotta be dangerous...smelling a horse knee!) & re-bandaged. I think I'll bite the financial bullet & just buy more vet wrap & cotton batting & try to replicate what the vet did...those quilted cotton leg wraps & mattress pads are just NOT doing the job! I re-bandaged him this morning w/the sterile gauze over the knee, then a small bandage of vet wrap, THEN the mattress pads & polo wraps. It's starting to itch apparently, so that might be why it came off, he'd been rubbing at it. That's a good sign anyway! The swelling's almost gone entirely!

He was somewhat depressed this morning, didn't want his grain (maybe he's sick of the bute mixed in with it!) & wasn't quite as perky on our walk, but he did manage a pretty good dramatic spook when one of the corgis popped out from behind some stuff. He had a good appetite for grass & didn't want to go back into the barn, LOL (he balked & looked longingly out towards the fields). Poor boy...I'd be depressed too! Too bad Bob doesn't have a recovery paddock where stall-confined horses could spend the day. Sunshine is good for wound healing after all!

I could turn him out in the indoor arena, but I can just see him dropping to his KNEES and rolling in the nice soft dirt...I think that's the main concern, not that he'd be crippled  (he was a little stiff this morning but no actual limp), but that he'd  contaminate the wound. And since it's an inch-deep puncture...caution time!

He'll live. When he first came to the barn he had to spend 10 days in quarantine in the back barn, so he'll live.

Bob came back w/another rack of bones horse from the auction this weekend...he's got TWO matching bags of bones in the back barn...both palominos...both starved by asshat owners, so  he's stuffing them with good eats, get some meat on 'em & probably sell them to hopefully caring homes. He also brought back two ADORABLE little snotblossom shetland ponies, and last weekend two BIG pinto Draft crosses... they're ALL stuck in stalls, and Quz  has the preggers Paint right next door to him, so he's got company in his misery at any rate. There's about 15 horses inside right now!