I saw a horse today that had spooked and run through some barbed wire. The wire had cut through the horse's right sholder right where it come's out of its chest. It had cut to the bone. The whole muscle was hanging out. You could take both fist and stick into the whole where the wound is. When i got within 20 foot of the horse i smell the odor of decayed flesh. Only worse. I have never in my life smelled anything like it. I have never smelled gain green but i am almost sure that was it.
The owner of the horse said he had a vet out to look at it and the vet had given him medications for it and said that the horse would pull through it. But i find that hard to beleave. I really have my doubt's as to if this man had a vet out. He said the vet told him it would leave a bad scar but it would heal up fine and he would be able to rid the horse again. I have seen some bad injuries to horse's but nothing like that.
They was using a water hose to wash the wound ( gash, hole) out and the animal just stood there. I am sure it had so much nerve damage that it could not feel anything. But they was using their thumb to hold over the end of the hose to make the water spray up into the wound. That alone would be enough to get infection started. Which i think was already started from the smell. Although you could not see any puse or dead looking matter in the wound. The flesh looked dark gray and you could see the legiments and other stringy stuff mangled in the wound.
The owner told me the vet would not sew it up. Which i could beleave that because there would be no way for the sticthes to hold. I mean we are talking a good 5 to 6 inch deep hole about 5 to 6 inche's in diameter. Maybe staple's would hold the muscle back in. I doubt it though.
What really need's to be done is for the horse to be shot. And i told the owner that would probably be the best thing to do.
Has anybody ever seen gain green ? Does it have a percuilar odor of it's own. I mean i am not weak hearted. I have hunted, trapped burried dead animal's. And been arround decayed carcauses of all kind's. Dead animal's with magot's and all. But i have never in my life smelled such a fowl odor as this. A hour after seeing this i could not hardly eat my dinner for thinking about that smell.
The owner of the horse said he had a vet out to look at it and the vet had given him medications for it and said that the horse would pull through it. But i find that hard to beleave. I really have my doubt's as to if this man had a vet out. He said the vet told him it would leave a bad scar but it would heal up fine and he would be able to rid the horse again. I have seen some bad injuries to horse's but nothing like that.
They was using a water hose to wash the wound ( gash, hole) out and the animal just stood there. I am sure it had so much nerve damage that it could not feel anything. But they was using their thumb to hold over the end of the hose to make the water spray up into the wound. That alone would be enough to get infection started. Which i think was already started from the smell. Although you could not see any puse or dead looking matter in the wound. The flesh looked dark gray and you could see the legiments and other stringy stuff mangled in the wound.
The owner told me the vet would not sew it up. Which i could beleave that because there would be no way for the sticthes to hold. I mean we are talking a good 5 to 6 inch deep hole about 5 to 6 inche's in diameter. Maybe staple's would hold the muscle back in. I doubt it though.
What really need's to be done is for the horse to be shot. And i told the owner that would probably be the best thing to do.
Has anybody ever seen gain green ? Does it have a percuilar odor of it's own. I mean i am not weak hearted. I have hunted, trapped burried dead animal's. And been arround decayed carcauses of all kind's. Dead animal's with magot's and all. But i have never in my life smelled such a fowl odor as this. A hour after seeing this i could not hardly eat my dinner for thinking about that smell.
