Friday, May 8, 2009

Pacho




We had a tragic event happen several days ago. Justin and Gonzalo, man who has been coming out some to help with our horse, were trying to help a sore on Pacho's nose heal. They had been putting some cream on it, but it didn't seem to be getting better. So, they decided to give him an antibiotic. Justin didn't realize Gonzalo had brought penicillin. To make a long, hard day short. Gonzalo gave him the medicine and Pacho died about 5-10 minutes later. We looked everywhere for epinephrine to help fight the reaction but could not find it in time. The vet arrived rather quickly, but still not in time. This has been rough on Justin. He had been working with Pacho whenever he could make time, so he had spent the most time with him. And of course Kaleb, our little cowboy, loved Pacho. Anyway, we thought we would let everyone know since we had written so much about Pacho in the past. He was a good horse and we are already missing him like crazy.