On Friday afternoon our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown of Missoula, came out to the ranch to work on several of our horses, all of them old, blind ones … with one exception — 6-week old Cash!
Bill did a complete health exam on our youngster, and found Cash has a hernia that will need surgery to fix. It’s not an emergency and Bill would like us to wait until Cash is about a month older, because he will need general anesthesia for the operation. We’ll have him gelded at the same time. (For non-horse people, that means neutered!)
It didn’t take Bill long to fall in love with little Cash … about 60 seconds, as I recall. Pretty clear from the photo, don’t you think?
Bill also did an eye exam, and he isn’t convinced Cash is blind from aniridia, or the absence of the iris. He thinks Cash may be missing other structures in the back of the eye. However, he will get a much better look when Cash is under anesthesia next month.
Meanwhile, Cash is growing and growing … and doing just fine!
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