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<blockquote data-quote="Stepper" data-source="post: 414318" data-attributes="member: 3398"><p>sjr725</p><p></p><p>That is a nice looking mule ! My little mule had a accident the other morning. She had gotten down on her front knees tring to eat grass underneath the pannels in her pen. And where the gate hinges there is about a 6 inch gap between the gate and the iorn post that it hinges off of. Well she slide her neck right up between the gate and the post.</p><p></p><p>My wife came in the house at 6:30 a.m. and woke me up and said i needed to get out there that my mule was hurt. I had a halter on her but had never been able to catch her since i put it on here 3 or 4 months ago. But like i had said in earlier post i was making progess in petting her and all.</p><p></p><p>I had made a 30' lead rope that i had planned on putting on her so that i could catch her to work with her some. But i was planning on putting it on latter on when i had her trusting me a little more.</p><p></p><p>So on my way out to her pen i grabbed the lead rope out of the back of my truck. Sure enough when i got out there she was laying on her stomach with all four feet underneath her like as if she had laid down that way. But she had managed to get her neck out of the gap in the gate and post. But her head was under the gate which had about a foots clearance between the bottom rail and the ground. She was wore out i dont know how many hours she had been like that.</p><p></p><p>But i attached the lead rope to her halter and opened the gate. She immediately laid over on her side and strecthed out. I thought for sure she had broken her neck. I told my wife to go call the vet and see if he could come take a look at her.</p><p></p><p>With in just a few minutes she stood up as started walking a little bit. But was staggering pretty bad. I my wife came back with my cell phone and i told her to not call the vet that there would not be much he could do. And i had her get me a hand full of horse treats. I tried to see if she would eat one. And she sit there and eat horse treats for about 5 minutes and i was able to pet her on the neck and back.</p><p></p><p>I was hoping to advance to getting her gentle enough to eventually be able to approach her that way. But not under the circumstances that the way things happened. Her neck really swoll up for 2 or 3 days right behind her ears. But the swellin finally came back down.</p><p></p><p>The vet said he thought that she must have tore a jugular vein and that was blood under the skin and if she had of tore the skin some how she would have bleed to death.</p><p></p><p>But she seems to be back to normal now. I have not been fooling with her since that happened i thought i would give her a little time to get over that deal before tring to mess with her again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stepper, post: 414318, member: 3398"] sjr725 That is a nice looking mule ! My little mule had a accident the other morning. She had gotten down on her front knees tring to eat grass underneath the pannels in her pen. And where the gate hinges there is about a 6 inch gap between the gate and the iorn post that it hinges off of. Well she slide her neck right up between the gate and the post. My wife came in the house at 6:30 a.m. and woke me up and said i needed to get out there that my mule was hurt. I had a halter on her but had never been able to catch her since i put it on here 3 or 4 months ago. But like i had said in earlier post i was making progess in petting her and all. I had made a 30' lead rope that i had planned on putting on her so that i could catch her to work with her some. But i was planning on putting it on latter on when i had her trusting me a little more. So on my way out to her pen i grabbed the lead rope out of the back of my truck. Sure enough when i got out there she was laying on her stomach with all four feet underneath her like as if she had laid down that way. But she had managed to get her neck out of the gap in the gate and post. But her head was under the gate which had about a foots clearance between the bottom rail and the ground. She was wore out i dont know how many hours she had been like that. But i attached the lead rope to her halter and opened the gate. She immediately laid over on her side and strecthed out. I thought for sure she had broken her neck. I told my wife to go call the vet and see if he could come take a look at her. With in just a few minutes she stood up as started walking a little bit. But was staggering pretty bad. I my wife came back with my cell phone and i told her to not call the vet that there would not be much he could do. And i had her get me a hand full of horse treats. I tried to see if she would eat one. And she sit there and eat horse treats for about 5 minutes and i was able to pet her on the neck and back. I was hoping to advance to getting her gentle enough to eventually be able to approach her that way. But not under the circumstances that the way things happened. Her neck really swoll up for 2 or 3 days right behind her ears. But the swellin finally came back down. The vet said he thought that she must have tore a jugular vein and that was blood under the skin and if she had of tore the skin some how she would have bleed to death. But she seems to be back to normal now. I have not been fooling with her since that happened i thought i would give her a little time to get over that deal before tring to mess with her again. [/QUOTE]
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