Frog Pond Farm » Rehabbing Drafts http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:17:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Lotto http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com/index.php/lotto/ http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com/index.php/lotto/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:45:09 +0000 admin http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com/?p=527 Help pay Lotto’s vet bills by buying a Lotto tassel from our Facebook page. We are using all funds from these to be paid to Valley View Animal Hospital and our vet bills in Lottos memory. They are $50 each.

Lotto Tassels 1Lotto Tassels 2Lotto Tassels 3Lotto Tassels 4

 

Lotto is an 8-10 year old, 18.1 hand Belgian gelding. He was pulled from Camelot Auction on 7.29.10. He started to undergo 30 days of quarantine here at the farm when we discovered he had issues with his hind feet. They were missing the entire heel section and emitted a strong odor. He wasnt unsound but we knew there were definite issues. He was immediately hauled to our hospital vet, Curt Honacker/Valley View Animal Hospital, where he was diagnosed with severe canker in 3 of his feet. The least issue was in the front left where he only had about a 50 cent size size section of sole left. The remaining was a big cancerous tumor. His worse foot is his hind right, in which he only had less then a quarter size piece of sole remaining and tumors so large they made his heel bulb and frog non-existent.

Lotto’s has been in and out of the vet hospital receiving treatments since the first week of August. He was treated first with formaldehyde after a complete re-sectioning of 3 hooves. After we noticed regrowth, he went through treatments of Liquid Nitrogen in hopes of freezing it. We thought we had beat it unril bout a month and a half later when I noticed the smell again. He was hauled back to the vets right before Thanksgiving for treatments to burn the tumors. He still remains there today as he is dealing with recurring abscesses in which the canker tumors are growing out of the holes left behind.

On Friday, 1.14.11, Lotto underwent a complete re sectioning and removal of a triangular section of his hind left outer hoof wall. This was done in hopes of allowing invasive treatments, allow drainage, and stop the growth of the tumors. His hoof is currently being held together by wire lacings.

Lotto Tassels 1 Lotto Tassels 2 Lotto Tassels 3 Lotto Tassels 4 Lotto - Camelot Lotto in stocks Lotto in pen Lotto in field Lotto in grass First treatment/front left Resectioning of original canker tumor First treatment hind left/first treatment front left/mid treatment hind left/mid treatment hind right/mid treatment front left close front left close Lotto and FPF volunteer and member, Tina at Christmas Barn Decorating in November.

Lottos treatment is closing in on the $5000 mark. If you would like to make a donation to Lotto’s care, you can do it a number of ways.

1- Donate direct: Valley View Animal Hospital
2167 Progress Street
Dover, OH 44622
330-364-2552 X3 for credit card over the phone with Teri/Ashley

2- Paypal for Lotto to FrogPondFarmLTD@aol.com

3- Mail check or money order directly to us at: Frog Pond Farm Drafts
64385 Larrick Ridge Road
Cambridge, OH 43725

]]> http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com/index.php/lotto/feed/ 2 Rehabbing Drafts http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com/index.php/rehabbing-drafts/ http://www.frogpondfarmdrafts.com/index.php/rehabbing-drafts/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 18:29:56 +0000 admin http://lizziebemis.com/fpf/rehabbing-drafts/ The drafts located in this area of the site are undergoing a form of rehabbing currently.  It could be for medical issues, weight issues, temperment issues or they need extensive training/socialization before being made available for adoption.  We arent looking to bring in a draft and immediately throw them out into a new home.  We feel it is very important that these issues are handled first before being placed.

Safe, healthy and well socialized drafts are our main priority!

 

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