Belle's Fear of Needles
Posted by emily on 7/19/2007 on emily's blog

This morning, we're conquering Belle's fear of needles. She's really ready to get to work, and it's almost time to sit on her. She looks more "horselike" every day and less like a bratty teenager.

So this morning, Mike is coming to help me teach her not to freak out when the vet comes. She's really bad. I mean, devil child bad. As soon as he gets that needle out, she just flips out, tries to bite, leaps in the air, and so forth. We have to give her an intra muscular tranquilizer to get her to calm down before we can inject her. I've spent the last six months pinching her neck, but even that doesn't seem to work. So I've called in an expert.

I'll keep you posted. We're getting started in about an hour.

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freyafjord says:

I'd be really interested to hear how the injection lessons work. I worked with a couple of my horses, poking them with paper clip ends and such. They seem fine with that but when the real needle comes they freak out, not at the sight of the needle, but at the feel. At one time I read somewhere that if you insert the needle slowly they don't feel it so much. It's supposed to be like a fly bite. Flies insert their needle noses slowly to keep the horse from noticing. I've never tried this but may sometime.

BettyJ

by freyafjord on Thu, 2007-07-19 20:23

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