It's About The Horse

thebundychick · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:02 am Post subject:

The dog was PTS today

Clarissa · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:48 am Post subject:

Now apparently it'll be compulsory to have all dogs & cats on a hendra property tested also.

I can just imagine how many will get spirited away before the vet is called. Also some people will hold off calling the vet because they don't want to loose their precious house pets too.

I can't help thinking that at some future time it will be proven to have all been unnecessary.

Also I can just see people running around trying to catch half wild farm cats

As Rusty's owner said, "this country is littered with wild dogs anyway. What's to say they wouldn't spread the virus too."

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Spitfire · Member Joined: 02 May 2010 Posts: 129

This is the horse that died near here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0EopcE2Lcc

PasoBaby_CarolU · Site Admin Joined: 31 Jan 2009 Posts: 9037

That was hard to watch. How sad.

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calatar · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:42 pm Post subject:

Wow, just now reading about this on here and wikipedia, sounds terrible! i hope they get an effective vaccine soon.
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thebundychick · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject:

its been 10 days since the last reported case of Hendra.

We were receiving unconfirmed reports last week that it was a hell of a lot closer than what the media reported.

Its been 5 days since i heard the unconfirmed reports, and still nothing has been reported. suffice to say, I think that at best they were testing for hendra quite close to home, but never actually got any positives for it.

My panic level is beginning to subside. The weather is warming up. And for every day of Crystal clear sunshine & warm days, I know we are moving further & further away from high risk.

Clarissa · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:43 am Post subject:

There's a good possibility there are still cases turing up. But the media has gone cold on it all so it's not being reported in the news anymore.

Also the DPI can get very slow to update their website if they feel the need to slow down public reaction. Particularly after the dog was PTS.

Many people have their own thoughts regarding horses being put down, but many, many more have strong reactions when dogs are being PTS from the same illness too.
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Clarissa · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:26 am Post subject:

Just wanted to say there are still cases turning up & horses dying.

Bats are in my garden nightly & I can hear them fighting over fig tree fruit growing on the far hillside in the paddock over my back fence.

I have emptied all the troughs around the house yard & the only water my horses have now is from the 3 dams. I don't leave any self serve food or hay out, but I can't help the fact that they have to graze the grass which may have been contaminated by droppings from passing bats. One would hope that those droppings would be sufficiently foul tasting or smelling to repulse a grazing horse.

Over the last 2 days we have had a good lot of rain to wash the grass which should help too.
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