Well, Beaver the Belgian turned out to be too big for the "XX Large" belly band designed for a Clydesdale. I took this photo on Friday, after I applied the Aldara to his sarcoid for the first time. We needed another, um … 8 to 10 inches to comfortably close the top of the band over his back. The cinch strap was long enough, and the breast collar harness (not shown here) was workable, but the band itself was just too short. I called Suzanne at Equus Therapeutics in Virginia, who produces the belly band, and she is making us a 12-inch "extender" with velcro to close the top. We should have that later this week.
That's Cindy holding Beaver. As I mentioned in an earlier post, she doesn't want to appear in the blog photos except "hidden" like this. I told her she's going to end up being our version of Wilson, the neighbor of Tim the Toolman whose face you never saw in the TV show Home Improvement. She liked that idea.
I heard this crack from a draft horse person a while ago:
Q. Do you know why Budweiser needs eight Clydesdales to pull their beer wagon?
A. Because they're Clydesdales. They'd only need two Belgians to get the job done.
(Clydesdale people: That's a joke. Please, no calls or emails.)
Beaver is big, even for a Belgian, at 18 hands high and 2,000 lbs. But
I figured if the belly band was sized for a Clydesdale, it should fit
him okay. Not so. It's hard to appreciate just how big he is until you get right up next to him. Cindy took this shot of me waving from the other side of Beaver as I was trying to adjust the band:
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