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Post by atticus on Aug 6, 2007 20:30:47 GMT -5
She is so dang cute!!
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Post by cvl on Aug 6, 2007 21:09:59 GMT -5
She looks fantastic Looks like she's kinda got those Brunhilda legs goin' on! The "basset" look! Great job with her, Crum!
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Post by tonimarielowery on Aug 6, 2007 21:20:16 GMT -5
Lily is absolutely, to die for, gorgeous! She sure cleans up nice!!!!
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Post by rodeo51 on Aug 6, 2007 22:28:08 GMT -5
I like that head shot. Such a pretty girl and so dang cute! :-)
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Post by djrepp on Aug 6, 2007 23:13:42 GMT -5
You have really taken good care of her. She has known nothing but love under your care. Thank you.
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Post by April on Aug 7, 2007 1:10:10 GMT -5
I love her, she's so pretty ;D. The pink around her lips is too cute, like she is wearing just a hint of lipstick!
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Post by halfwayhome on Aug 7, 2007 1:57:08 GMT -5
She looks fantastic! whoo-whoo what a hottie for a grey haired old lady!
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Post by crum on Sept 19, 2007 8:20:15 GMT -5
Poor Lilly has managed to scrape her eye. The vet and I discussed that she may have done it because her guard hairs above her eye were irritating her eye so she was rubbing it and probably was a bit overzealous. Lilly's guard hairs above and below her eyes all curl back in towards her face rather than growing out like most horses. At least one of them was curved back and poking through her eyelashes towards her eye. I had been keeping these clipped back all summer but with winter coming on I had not been clipping her as often. So now much doctoring is in the near future. Luckily she is incredibly good about having ointment put in her eye. And the moral of this story is that you should check your horse's hairs around their eyes and keep them trimmed if there is even a chance that they could end up near the eye to irritate it.
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Post by crum on Sept 28, 2007 10:27:58 GMT -5
The vet was out yesterday. The eye is healed up and she said I can go ahead and stop treatment, but to keep an eye on it for the next week or so just in case. Lilly had her teeth floated yesterday as well. She has two teeth at the back that are about at the end of their life. They aren't loose yet, but the vet said to keep an eye on her and if she acts like they are starting to bother her we can go ahead and pull them if they don't fall out on their own. The vet is going to be back in 2-3 months to check on one of my other horse's teeth so I will probably have the vet recheck LIlly's again then just in case. The vet does dental work on one of the horse's she did yesterday on a 6 month schedule so she will be out again a few months after that as well so it will be easy to keep on top of Lilly's teeth. The farrier was out last friday and trimmed Lilly up. She was good for his work.
I wasn't there for the vet's visit, but she told me Lilly was kind of like "nope I don't want you messing with my mouth but here feel free to poke at my previously injured eye." Apparently even drugged she kept trying to lift her head up and away from the vet when she looked at her mouth, but as soon as she was on the side with the eye I had been treating she would drop her head down and tilt the eye towards her.
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Post by crum on Oct 18, 2007 9:22:50 GMT -5
Lilly is sporting stylish new clothes this morning. She loves to stand in the rain even when it is starting to freeze and the wind is howling and she is shivering. In an effort to be a good foster mom I purchased her a nice new waterproof blanket for this winter. She is not amused.
modified to add I'll try to get pictures of her in her stylish new green blanket when I get home if it is not to dark.
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Post by agilitygal on Oct 18, 2007 11:32:02 GMT -5
Oh, a green blankie. Can't wait to see that! She's so white. . .it will look great and hopefully do the trick.
I wish I could read these animals' minds. I've got a rescue puppy that will stay outside in the rain. . .even though she has a huge covered area with dog beds and steps right next to the house. Go figure. I have to watch her continually.
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Post by crum on Oct 18, 2007 22:44:18 GMT -5
New Lilly pictures: These first two are from a month or so ago. These next two are of Lilly in her new blankie. The lighting was terrible unfortunately.
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Post by gypsy79 on Oct 19, 2007 13:53:51 GMT -5
Oh My! Those 2 make her look like a gorgeous statue in a garden. They look to truly come from a fairy tale! Just Beautiful!
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Post by crum on Nov 16, 2007 22:49:16 GMT -5
Lilly had a visit with the farrier today. She was very good for the farrier until the last one. Then one of my other goofballs decided to start a riot and came flying into her stall full tilt and physically bounced off of two of her walls before heading back out. Poor Lilly panicked for a moment and pulled her foot away. She settled down after a moment or two though and let him finish up like a good girl.
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Post by emjay on Nov 17, 2007 0:11:32 GMT -5
looks like a unicorn in the garden , great shots.
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Post by djrepp on Nov 17, 2007 0:43:14 GMT -5
crum, you are an angel for coming along at this time and sharing these beautiful pictures. This is what it's all about. Thank you.
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Post by crum on Jan 14, 2008 11:23:39 GMT -5
Miss Lilly has decided it is that time of year already. The time of year when she creates her own snow. ;D Her white fluffy hair is starting to come out already. I'm sure in a few more weeks blizzard conditions will set in.
One of my friends has a new girlfriend who knits and apparently even makes her own yarn. I'm thinking about seeing if she can make something interesting out of Lilly hair. I have an idea of what I'd like to see her make but I'm not sure how hard it would be since I don't knit myself and I have no idea how much yarn she can make out of how much hair. Feel free to PM me if you have ideas though.
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Post by crum on Feb 5, 2008 14:42:34 GMT -5
I've started Lilly on Adequan IM for her arthritis. The cold weather was affecting her much more this year than last. I definitely don't want her getting to the point where it is hard for her to get herself up. Her 2000 pound self is not some lightweight that I can just help rock to their feet with a little boost. She was very good for her shot, which surprised me. She threw a fit the other day when the vet tried to give her one. I walked up and she was good as gold. She just turned her head once I had the needle in to see what I was doing and then could care less. Of course now that I've bragged we'll see how the next one goes modified because I accidentally hit enter to soon
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Post by crum on Dec 7, 2008 9:47:55 GMT -5
Lilly is doing well. She is up to date on her vaccinations, farrier, deworming, and dental. A couple more of her teeth appear to be at the end of their usefullness. She is still on Next Level and Adequan IM for her arthritis. She is still on cimetidine even though her visible melanomas all appear to have regressed since she started it.
She was injured earlier this spring but with time and lots of antiinflammatories she seems to be almost completely back to her preinjury self. The vets were unable to ascertain the actual location or nature of the injury. They did nerve blocks up to right above her knees which narrowed it down to an injury somewhere above her knees. We discussed doing the blocks up higher than that but at that point we were starting to get into theoretical methods of how the block should be done based on her size and there were concerns that with her large size and the loss of feeling any further up she might be a hazard to herself and others when in motion. Apparently there is no where within a 8 hour drive of the Portland metropolitan area that has Xray or other equipment suitable for doing shoulder Xrays or any other sort of scan of a draft horse with as thick of a body as Lilly. There was still discussion about hauling her to the closest facility that has these resources, but at the age of 28 we were all concerned that shipping her with an injured leg would cause more problems than might be solved. Since pretty much any injury she had in that area was going to have the same treatment we went ahead and treated her with rest and antiinflammatories. This seems to have worked.
She spent most of her summer munching on the rosebush buffet over the top of the paddock fence. She ate enough of them back that she had a trough shape running down the top of them. I tried to convince her to go for more artistic shapes with her pruning but she didn't appear to go for it.
She discovered a new treat in the Pony Oaties Gold. She was searching me for them before I even had a chance to offer the first one to her. They have quite the aroma and she must have picked up on it from a distance. She is usually very polite about most treats so I was surprised she was so forward about this one.
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Post by patrolhorse on Dec 8, 2008 12:11:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the update crum- (with everything going on with the boards lately- I had been hoping for some positive updates ) Sounds like Lilly is doing very well. I didn't realize she was that old- she looks wonderful (a testement to your great care!) Thank you for showing her the "good life" . Maybe some new pictures???....
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Post by rodeo51 on Dec 10, 2008 0:17:21 GMT -5
There is something about Lily that is magical. She is just one very cool horse and I love reading her updates. Thanks Crum :-)
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Post by crum on Dec 21, 2008 15:20:24 GMT -5
I went out to feed this morning. The barn door was frozen shut. I ended up cutting through one of the horses' runs and scrambling up and over a stall wall because the stalls cannot be unlatched from the inside. I received really biig eyes and a snort from Bungee as I went over her stall wall and lots of scrambling around from various horses when they heard the manuever from their stalls.
A had to laugh a little bit at Lilly's fancy hairdo when I slipped her hay to her. She had apparently had a wet mane when she stretched out on her side to sleep last night. Large portions of the medium length hairs in her mane had frozen sticking straight up. Unfortunately I didn't think about taking a picture until well after I was done drying her neck and mane off. I was just glad she had her water proof blanket on so the rest of her had not been wet last night.
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Post by crum on Dec 21, 2008 15:23:02 GMT -5
I'll see what I can do about pictures. I'm not sure about how well she will show up in outdoor photos right now though
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Post by agilitygal on Dec 21, 2008 16:06:56 GMT -5
Lol!!!! Never seen that one before! But, just the description brings interesting pictures to the mind. . .!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Post by crum on Dec 24, 2008 18:05:30 GMT -5
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Post by crum on Nov 29, 2009 14:38:59 GMT -5
Lilly is doing well. She recently had a molar pulled that had been split in two from front to back. She has a couple of other teeth that have worn out. She had the rest of her teeth floated as well when the tooth was pulled. She is on a completely pelleted diet for now. I'll see if once the hole heals up she can go back onto non-pelleted hay or not. She is still getting around quite well and is her usual charming self.
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Post by halfwayhome on Nov 29, 2009 15:07:32 GMT -5
Thank you so much for letting us know! I am glad to hear she is doing ok and thank you for taking such good care of her! She has had a safe and caring home thanks to your kindness. Those of us that remember this girl really appreciate it!
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Post by crumguest on Aug 29, 2011 19:32:25 GMT -5
Sadly, Lilly was euthanized tuesday evening. Tuesday morning she had what the vet originally believed at 5:00 am was a gas colic, but he did warn me that he could not check as thoroughly as he would like due to her size. Lilly appeared to be improving slightly throughout the day. She took a sudden turn for the worse between 12:15 when I checked on her and 1:00pm. The vets ran various tests and determined that her intestine ruptured. She was euthanized and I had a necropsy done that showed the rupture with the root cause being an impaction at a flexure that seemed to be made up of very poorly chewed fibrous grass hay stems and some hair. Since Lilly was on a very restricted diet due to her shortage of remaining teeth, I'm guessing her neighbor must have pushed a bunch of grass hay under the fence on the ground near where Lilly liked to rub her shedding hair and Lilly must have eaten it. I thought of some other possible explanations but they seem less likely.
Lilly was a incredible horse in every way and I feel incredibly privileged to have known her.
PS I cannot seem to get logged into the board and my email address has changed since I logged in last it appears thus the guest login.
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Post by crumguest on Aug 29, 2011 19:34:07 GMT -5
Sadly, Lilly was euthanized tuesday evening. Tuesday morning she had what the vet originally believed at 5:00 am was a gas colic, but he did warn me that he could not check as thoroughly as he would like due to her size. Lilly appeared to be improving slightly throughout the day. She took a sudden turn for the worse between 12:15 when I checked on her and 1:00pm. The vets ran various tests and determined that her intestine ruptured. She was euthanized and I had a necropsy done that showed the rupture with the root cause being an impaction at a flexure that seemed to be made up of very poorly chewed fibrous grass hay stems and some hair. Since Lilly was on a very restricted diet due to her shortage of remaining teeth, I'm guessing her neighbor must have pushed a bunch of grass hay under the fence on the ground near where Lilly liked to rub her shedding hair and Lilly must have eaten it. I thought of some other possible explanations but they seem less likely. Lilly was a incredible horse in every way and I feel incredibly privileged to have known her. PS I cannot seem to get logged into the board and my email address has changed since I logged in last it appears thus the guest login. For those of you are curious and because the vets all seemed so surprised, all the vets who examined her in the last year believe she was at least 30 years old.
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Post by calypso on Aug 30, 2011 10:08:47 GMT -5
Crum,
I'm so sorry to see this post. Thank you for taking such good care of her and letting her have such a wonderful retirement. It's so sad to see them go, but glad you have the wonderful memories of the past few years to remember her by.
Caly
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