Page 5 - Summer 21

Bella is a riding horse of 15 years old.
She had suffered with sinusitis for 4 years. There is a constant fluid, bright yellow mucus, like egg yolk, discharge from the left nostril. She is a little subdued with it but does not suffer that much. It goes away with anti- biotic treatment but it comes back quickly. The vets operated on her sinus but that made no difference. It is worse in the summer than in the winter. She drinks the discharge that comes from her nose. Sometimes there are crusts on the nostrils but they are not irritating her.
The sinusitis started after she bashed her head. There is still a big dent from compressed bone under the right eye: the face is deformed. She bled for a while and that was it. She seems not to be affected by it.
The right eye weeps and has created a leathery change of the skin where the tears run down. (The weeping is due to the deformation of the forehead and eye socket).
‘’She was born on the farm. Ever since she was young, she had a coltish behaviour: she squeals like a stallion, it is nothing dramatic. They found raised levels of testosterone in her blood. The ovaries were scanned and they are normal. She will sniff at the droppings of other horses and scrape them up. Sometimes she does her droppings on top. (Stallion behaviour)
She loves to go and speak to people but if they touch her, she rears and runs off, scared. She shows off today because you are there (?). Careful because she will kick you: she likes contact but only on her terms. Sometimes she gets in my space, I push her back and she respects that. She loves my daughter who is animal minded and rides her sometimes: she always liked her right from the beginning. She hates my other daughter: he ears go back when she sees her.
She has a little bravado to be with people but the contact is on her terms. The dentist was kicked out of the box: he did
not approach her in the right way. She took a while to get used to the farrier. In the end she gave up: it was not worth the hassle to keep fighting him.
She was trained using the Monty Roberts technique. It worked well on her. She is good to ride out: she enjoys riding out, visiting the countryside, just like her mother did. She always stops at the farm where she was born. She had a good mother; the weaning went fine. She had contracted tendons at birth. Her legs were splinted and they came right.
After the surgery for the sinusitis, her face did swell up and she had a bone infection: there were eruptions with pus coming out for a week, it was painful. She behaves fine at the vets. I was told that if I did nothing the bones would become affected and things would get worse: the sinusitis was constant.
She is not very affected by her seasons. They are always the same. She can be a bit of a show off; she is a bit full of herself. She is a happy horse. She looks sweet and lovely at the people coming down the path but as soon as they try to stroke her, she rears, and squeals and runs off and frightens them. She does not do this with people she knows. It is as if she says: ‘I want to be friends but I do not know how to deal with it’.
She is not cuddly but with my daughter she will put her head on her shoulder and presses my daughter against her: she loves my daughter more than me. (They have been friends since her young age.)
She will not take medicines, I have the squirt them down her throat. She did grow up
after her mother died 3 years ago. She was lonely and shouted for three weeks after the death of her mother. I borrowed a pony to be with her. A new horse that arrived later put her in her place: she grew up then, her mother did allow her to do what she wanted.
I like her quirkiness. She is easy on riding out: I allow her to choose the way we go. If we take the other horse away, she will be calling for him. If we put her in the stable, she is fine. She is ok with other horses, neither here nor there but she has a horse friend in the village: both horses like each other.
She was fine to train. She will wait till I have finished talking to somebody, if it somebody she knows, she would like to stand close to them. The dogs can run around her legs and she is fine.
Her droppings are always in one pile in the stable.’’ Solution
This is the repertorisation I made. It’s not brilliant: it was put together while listening to the owner. (Complete Repertory- Novomeo).
I used ‘female sex desire increased’ even though she was not sexually agitated during the seasons. I used it to
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