--- In [email protected], "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the vet sedated him for the floating, she found the first clue: there were deep and old ulcers on each side of his mouth, right at the inside corners of his lip. Based on the scarring, she guessed that they had been there for many months, maybe longer.
-------------Wow, any idea on what caused them? If they were on the inside corners of his lip, does that mean that a dropped noseband could have possibly caused it, or caused him more pain? And is this the same Tivar that Janice now has? > One other really odd thing: when he came to us, he had marked "divots" behind his withers - one reason I'm sure saddle fitters recommended him use treeless saddles. Just before he was to go to Janice, I noticed that, while the "divots" were still there, part of his natural conformation, they had filled in, noticeably in just a couple of months. > Karen Thomas -------------Osp had these divots too. A few months after we switched to Sensations, those divots also filled in. The change was actually pretty dramatic in such a short time. I know those divots on Osp were caused by not being able to find a saddle wide enough for her. The Sensation has resolved that issue. Interestingly though, I had to even remove the knee blocks on my Sensation altogether because she's too wide for me to even use them. I could see indentations from them after the first ride. I don't normally like knee blocks anyway, so it didn't break my heart at all to put them in my tack trunk :-). Dawn Bruin-Slot, northern Michigan Fuzzy Logic Equine
