Choking

My horse chokes on pellets. I know this now, and learned it the hard way. Yummy soaked mash forever for the Princess Thoroughbred with a Lifetime Track Earning of 127 Dollars.

Terrifying night, and not a good way for your significant other to first meet your horse and barnyard pals.

This is a nifty article on choke if you have never encountered it before: Choking First-Aid.

We ended up pulling her out of the barn yard and massaging the mass gently until it cleared. There was much coughing and saliva about, but this wasn't my first choke, and it cleared in less than 10 minutes. Also, it was not large enough to obstruct her breathing, and the vet had been alerted and was to be called back if it didn't clear itself withing the quarter hour. ALWAYS CALL YOUR VET.


We are all assuming that it was a one time thing since she bolts her feed and hadn't been on the pellets for very long. If it happens again, even with wetting the feed, she gets the long scope down her throat! I had an Arabian gelding that choked on pellets because he, too, was a piggy.

I am wondering if her cribbing could cause any lasting damage to her esophagus and make her more pronen to choking, though. I know it hasn't helped her teeth.

P.S. To the man that tried to encourage my dog to eat his dog tonight,

Quit being an asshat. That growling sound you hear isn't funny, and when I say "Back the fuck off." I mean it. The cute black dog wants to play. The Faun Beast will eat your dog for breakfast because he has poor social skills that have done nothing but improve over the last 4 years. Yeah, they still suck, but he wouldn't have thought about eating your dog back then: he just would have done it.

To all of you other people who walk your dogs in my neighborhood,

If you see an Angry Blonde Beast being told to sit and trembling while doing so, it is probably best that you not approach him with your ill-mannered, filthy, untrained mongrel. Just walk on by because he is LISTENING to his HANDLER. He will try to go home with cute ladies and people with take-out, though.

Thanks in advance.