What a hot and terribly rainy summer. D has gotten super calm in the midst of thunderstorms which is pretty cool actually.
To make up for the tardiness of my posts I will try to make this post count.
Demetrias has been doing well. He still has not completely shed out and it is indeed the middle of July. I am not sure why this is happening and can only guess. He dropped his entire coat the beginning of January right after we started a fat supplement. The assumption was that he had gotten too hot.
The idea now that he isn't dropping everything is that his seasons are just rather mixed up... his eyes are blocked up with cataracts and some sites say that part of how horses know to shed is by the amount of light that soaks in through the eyes. Obviously it is hot but apparently that isn't the only trigger- puzzling.
We went through a rather rough patch riding but seem to be on an upswing currently. I'm sure that will change now that I have written this...
We are cantering and working on downward transitions even including a pole or two. Despite him feeling unbalanced he has focused enough for us to be able to complete these tasks very well.
The baffling thing about uveitis is the shape of my horse's body. His hind end appears to be sunken. He isn't showing a lot of ribs and is happy as a clam but his body looks like that of an older horse while his face is quite young.
I wish there was more information out there about the impact this disease has on a horse as they progress but for now its one day at a time. He is happy and working to the best of his ability. I am blessed.
