<\/span><\/h2>\nTo Sum it All Up Partner… while it may look like our pony pals are tossing their cookies when they get that crazy stomach look, I’m here to tell you they truly can’t barf like other animals.<\/p>\n
So next time Spirit starts heaving after a big meal or bouncy trail ride, don’t panic thinking puke is on the way.<\/p>\n
Chances are she just has a bad case of stomach inflammation or irritation causing those convincing heaves and grunts.<\/p>\n
With some TLC for her sensitive tum like smaller meals, probiotics, salt licks and good gut health, she’ll be back in happy hopping form feeling chipper as a critter at a campfire.<\/p>\n
Hope this set the story straight on those myths about horsie upchuck. Use this know-how to better care for your own pony’s belly.<\/p>\n
Let me know if you ever need any more horse sense decoded, partner! Now if you’ll excuse me, I best be hittin’ the hay – got an early morning mucking stalls ahead. Till next time, happy trails!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I was out on the ranch the other day with my horse Spirit when she started making some seriously weird noises. I thought for sure she was gonna toss her cookies but nothing came up! Got me thinking – why do we always say horses puke when they really can’t? Turns out there’s more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horseroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}