Adequan And Cancer

Horse show expected to bring $7.1M to city

Judge Greg Holden surveys the Aged Mares in the Halter competition during the 2011 Adequan Select American Quarter Horse Championship Show at the Amarillo National Center on Thursday. The event is free to the public and continues through Saturday. The event brings together amateur exhibitors from across the world all of which are above the age of 50. Cheryl Krouse, left, and Gary Rogers work as a team to pin a calf in the Team Penning competition during the 2011 Adequan Select American Quarter Horse Championship Show at the Amarillo National Center Thursday. The event is free to the public and continues through Saturday. The event brings together amateur exhibitors from across the world all of which are above the age of 50. Karen Coleman holds on to the halter of Stars Design as the two wait for judging to begin for the Aged Mares in the Halter competition during the 2011 Adequan Select American Quarter Horse Championship Show at the Amarillo National Center Thursday. The event is free to the public and continues through Saturday. The event brings together amateur exhibitors from across the world all of which are above the age of 50.

Despite the balking U.S. economy, the 2011 American Quarter Horse Association Adequan Select World Championship Show is expected to spur local revenues.

The event, set to conclude Saturday, has grown since last year and is forecast to give the Amarillo economy a $7.1-million boost during its seven-day run, compared to the $6.3 million it brought in last year.

The Adequan Select show, held at the Amarillo National Center, is the world’s largest, single-breed world championship horse show, and it’s open exclusively to amateur exhibitors age 50 and above, according to an American Quarter Horse Association release.

There are 880 horses and 1,290 riders from 42 U.S. states as well as Canada, Germany and Argentina.

A local exhibitor, Tommie Neeley, 72, seized third place in performance halter mares Thursday, with a 2006 grey mare, Shessinfullychocolat, according the American Quarter Horse Journal, Amarillo.

Canine cancer rears its ugly head again

I’ve gone down the cancer road a few times with my pets in the past few years and here we go again. First Lydia, who happens to be doing great! Then cancer took my cat Tequila in a fast moving battle with cancer. And now, it’s Archie’s turn.

I’ve had Archie to the vet a number of times over the past month. First it was because he’s starting to show some signs of joint pain. I’ve been seeing some changes over the past few months, but when he fell a couple times I decided that was enough. So off to the vet we went.

The vet started him on Canine Adequan , which is similar to glucosamine. It has very few side effects and can actually help to rebuild cartilage. It takes a while for it to kick in though. So because Archie was in a fair amount of pain, the vet also started him on Deramaxx, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID). Like other NSAIDS, Deramaxx has side effects. I didn’t like the idea of him being in pain though, so I thought I’d at least do the Deramaxx until the Adequan kicked in.

Archie did great for the first couple weeks, then he started having some diarrhea. The vets aren’t sure if it’s from the Deramaxx or not, but we stopped that right away. Since then he’s been on antibiotics and some other medications that are helping.

At this point, it’s not certain what caused the diarrhea. On Monday when we saw the vet, she talked about a number of possibilities. Since the list included some ugly things, we decided to do an ultrasound. I think the vet could have gone either way with the ultrasound, but since I wanted to err on the side of caution, we went ahead and did it yesterday. I’m glad we did.

The radiologist said everything she saw looked fine, there was nothing at all that concerned her. What did concern her though, was a small tumor she found when she shaved Archie’s belly. It turns out that it’s a mast cell tumor (MCT) and he’s going in to have it removed on Friday. He also has a very small bump on his nose. That one doesn’t appear to be MCT, although the vet is going to do a biopsy anyway. And, I found a very, very small one last night that I’ll point out to the vet on Friday as well.

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