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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Roxanne, I'm just replying because you forgot to add the Homestead to your 
reply which commented on your horse.  I know from her post, that Sage was 
curious concerning your horse remedy.  Hope you have a good day ........
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--- On Mon, 3/2/09, roxann <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com> wrote:


> We got snow on Saturday, snowed all day long like a
> blizzard, lol. but it had been warm for too long previously
> and the snow didn't stick around much. except to make
> slushy ice on the roads around sunset time. Sunday I went to
> retrieve my horses <again> from over the mountain and
> that's when I saw that my horse, Comanche, had an
> abscess erupt on his lower jaw beneath a new tooth trying to
> come in. So now he's on antibiotics and once the
> inflammation and infection is gone, we can see what else
> needs to be done. It's not strangles - the abscess
> isn't involving the lymph nodes, plus my daughter
> brought in swabs to be cultured from the abscess and nasal
> passages to make sure. She also brought in pictures she took
> of him, and we got a surprising lot of progress without ever
> having the vet come out or the horse go in. So I'm only
> $70 out when this morning I thought it would be a lot more
> than that... so far.
> 
> bob, i'm glad your dog came home with you today and
> hopefully it's something that will just go away.
> 
> Roxann, NW AR
> http://blog.ancientearthwisdom.com (Ozark Musings from the
> homestead)