Beverly Ann Detlefsen - Easy Keeper – Heaves –

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John Dowdy:

Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to keep it right here in the sunny state of Florida we've got Beverly [Detleson 00:00:08] on the Equinety podcast this week. Beverly, welcome to the call.

Beverly Ann Detlefsen:

Hi, how are you?

John Dowdy:

I'm doing very well. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your Equinety story. I believe I came across your story because you posted a review on our Facebook page. I'm like wow, that's pretty intense. I reached out to you and here we are. Tell us about your horse and kind of what was going on there and let's just start there.

Beverly Ann Detlefsen:

All right, well Jasper is a, he'll be coming 15 years old this next year. We've owned him his whole entire life. He was born here at our farm in [Alottey 00:00:52]. His mama was actually my horse so it was kind of cool. Kind of felt like he had to be my horse because his mom was my horse. I sent him out to Oklahoma two years ago because I was going to nursing school and we had a close friend out there that didn't mind taking him at the time. He recently came home after he only had a little trouble out there. I knew, I wasn't sure what all he was going to need whenever he came home but I wanted him to be on Equinety because I had him on it prior two years ago whenever he left.

Beverly Ann Detlefsen:

He did so great on it then, it was helping him run better, run stronger, recover faster and the lady that went out there to pick him up, her name is [Diane Fryer 00:01:38]. She knew Jasper prior to whenever he went out there. She called me, she was like hey I just want you to know that this is, this isn't the horse you sent out there. You just need to prepare yourself. I really wasn't sure what she meant by that. I was just trying to prepare myself and when I opened the trailer door he was thin, his hair was, his tail was falling out and he wasn't really there mentally. He was just kind of a horse that was there. I started him on Equinety immediately because God knows he needed all the help he could get.

John Dowdy:

Now before you go any further you had already had him on Equinety prior to sending him out to Oklahoma and what kind of personality did he have?

Beverly Ann Detlefsen:

He's always been very nosy, a little bossy, always kind of in your pocket, very personable and always has something to say about everything. He's a true one on one horse for sure.

John Dowdy:

Yeah so you sent him out there because it was at the time going to be the best place for him because you're going to nursing school. He was out there what, for a couple of years?

Beverly Ann Detlefsen:

Yes, for two almost years almost to the date actually.

John Dowdy:

You were kind of forewarned coming back that it was not the horse that you sent out there so what did you find when he came off the trailer?

Beverly Ann Detlefsen:

When I opened the trailer door I never, he's a very easy keeper. I'm going to throw that out there before I say this. I mean he's a very easy keeper, always has been his whole life. He was so [inaudible 00:03:17] I mean he was just, he looked okay from the side his ribs were showing but looking at him front and back he was so narrow. You could see his tailbone sticking up, you could just feel his chest bone in between his front legs which I have never actually experienced with a horse. I was absolutely blown away that he was in that condition.

John Dowdy:

Wow, that had to be really, really tough especially sending him out here thinking that he'...