> I just don't understand--why didn't the previous owner have his teeth > done? Wouldn't a vet check a horses teeth when there seems to be a > problem with eating?
oh gosh V, its a long story. Basically he was bred and owned by a man for ten years, sold to Geraldine Livingston of the Livingston Foundation--- she owned midnight Sun, the most famous walking horse in all history, she was owner when he died, she thought so much of Gallant Boy she named one of his offspring that she bred "Suns Image"... anyway. she died, and stated in her will for him to be returned to the man who raised him. by this time the man is old. He owns him ten more years. he falls on hard times. he gets really old and feeble, he owns 175 horses. He knows probably more about horses and horse health than any vet around here. but he got old and feeble and poor and senile and well... he didnt do teeth, he gave shots, he wormed, but he saved money by feeding them ground corn. he ground it himself. And pasture too, but the studs, he never let out but to breed. anyway. Then one day he calls me, his speech is all slurred. he had had six mini strokes. He said "come get this horse" and i didnt even know who he was or could figure out what he was saying!! But anyway, he knew I was always so crazy about this old horse, GB is my Jaspar's sire. I used to go and put fly masks on him and doctor his infected eyes and give him baths. His stall had not been cleaned in ten years. He lay in a big wallow hole caked in manure. the last two or three years he did not even own any fly spray. I went and got him, and he took such a tailspin when i switched him from that corn to regular feed! I had to get him stable somewhat before my vet could sedate him and do his teeth. The vet said his teeth were like needles and he actually has callouses inside his mouth from them... anyway. here he is, Mr. Gallant Boy:) aint he purty! janice-- yipie tie yie yo
