he was actually ten times better than Nasi! Made me realize Nasi needs work with being handled in the mouth. I told the dentist before she started that he had issues with his nose/mouth and she was like well, we'll try and if we have to sedate him we will. But she talked to him and petted his forehead a lot, then did some advance retreat with the mouth and we all like to fainted when he opened up to take the speculum. last time I tried to put a bit on him he acted like he just wasnt gonna allow it so I just didnt push it. But he opened up for the speculum and didnt panic when she started cranking it open. It was like, oh, the teeth thing, and was totally ok with it. But DOnny held him for her, around the neck without touching his face and she did not "grab" his face so that helped! She is a DVM and we talked about his SE and vaccinations and she said hey, think about it, no vaccinations could be an almost guarantee around here that he could get west nile or incephalitis, she said SE is ugly, nasty, hard to treat, but not lethal. She said it would be worth the risk as far as she was concerned but suggested we do his shots one at a time instead of combinations. So we gave him encephalitis, and then every two weeks will do tetanus, flu, rhino and then west nile.
Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
