Bowel cancer contained by horses?
we have a 12 yr old gelding. when we rescued him he was exceptionally skinny,had diarrhea for months(about 5 months)severe watery diarrhea. the owner claimed it was due to bowel cancer and our unreadable nearly insensible gelding had his days numbered. we brought him home to spend the rest of his days in peace. preventable to say after his teeth were floated,and he finally got grain(went months near only 4 flakes of hay a day)and all the love and hay he could handle. he have now gained weight,and rides resembling a dream. my daughter is training for barrels and he loves to practice with her. he also has not had diarrhea contained by 3 months. the former owner claims the vet told her this but cant seem to find the paper work for his specific type of cancer. my vet says its uncommon for a horse to get bowel cancer and if he did it would be so painful that the gelding couldn't function. my interview is what are the signs and symptoms? could it be possible that someone is wrong?
Sounds as whether someone was wrong. I would bet that the owner's claim was wrong and the horse was purely kept in poor conditions. People make all kind of excuses for their horse's poor condition. I know a lady whose horses are always in poor condition. She claims that the horses won't allow respectively other to eat. She "feeds her horses well but doesn't know why they are skinny!" I've hear it all, it boils down to the fact that she is not caring for her horses as she should. Now that your little guy is getting proper food and guardianship he has improved, if he indeed have bowel cancer I doubt you would see the marked improvement that you have.
symptoms do vary alot !
1:bleeding from the rectum
2:conspicuously (as above) blood in droppings
3:constipation NOT DIARRHEA
4:huge weight loss
5: can be lethargic most cases are slow-moving 24/7 of severe
IF ... a horse does have any of these symptoms the only outcome is euthanasia.
That horse didn't have bowel cancer once the symptoms are notice it usually means it's far too late and most cases bowel cancer is completely in need symptoms untill its in a very aggressive stage (untreatable) something is fishy obviously happend!!
Well, first I would ask how he was diagnosed. Cancers of the GI tract in horses can occur anywhere along the tract, from the stomach on. Some are associated near lymphoma, and most are tumors affecting the lining tissues of the inside of the bowel. The symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss associated next to the malabsorption of nutrients that occurs. Some horses develop fevers and anemia. Not every symptom has to be present within a given horse. Abnormal cells can be identified by taking a sample of abdominal fluid, but if they find cell they would typically do a scope exam to search for tumors. The only process to determine for sure whether tumors are malignant cancers as opposed to benign, noncancerous tumors is by surgical biopsy. There may enjoy been a diagnosis made based on cells found surrounded by the abdominal fluid, or even tumors seen on a scope exam, but that doesn't mean cancer be diagnosed with certainty. It is possible that the horse was misdiagnosed, and that the owner be honest with you about what she was told by her vet. I'm beaming to hear that the horse is doing better, but I would want to investigate the bowel situation further.
yeah she be lying by the sounds of it she just didnt wont it and didnt feed or care for it porpley
I own never heard of a horse actually getting bowel cancer. I think it's unbelievably possible that someone was wrong, and I suggest you get him re-evaluated by your vet.
It doesn't nouns like bowel cancer if he got better. It may own been a bout of colitis or Salmonella that he finally got over with proper prudence. Colitis can occur in any horse that is overfed, on poor diet, is given injections any orally or intramuscular to much or to often, is overdosed on antibiotics(overdosing can kill appropriate bacteria), improperly dewormed, or has food allergies.
I've owned several horse's that I experienced colitis with after purchase. The over use of the drug Bute can bring diarrhea as well as a horse not being fed properly(low level forage or to high quality of forage). There are just to frequent ways the horse could have suffered- only way to find out is a thorough exam next to the vet.
Answers: I agree with your vet also.
My show mule had chronic diarrhea for 4 yrs that left vet stumped. It ended up being ulcers, not certain if they were bowel or gastric, but the treatment worked.
I would just treat as such, probiotics, spot treatments *although with him improving might not be necessary*, but definately probiotics.
Congrats, I'm glad the horse is doing much better!
I agree fully with your vet. If he truly had had cancer, it would be too tight for him to function. It sounds to me like the woman just did not want to be charged next to any kind of animal abuse charges for the neglect of the horse and come up with the bowel cancer story. The fact that she has "lost the paperwork" doesn't really assistance her much in my mind either...
I know I didn't really answer your interview about sympoms, but I thought I'd put in my 2 cents anyway... :)
