I want to be sympathetic but I just don't feel it.

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11. Oh, she won't die

But her sores could get much worse.

Plus here in Florida in the last forty years we have found that rotating dewormers really helps cut down on the infestation of worms. Horses used to die from worms that embedded in their intestines, killing part of the intestine and causing severe colic. Those cases have reduced tremendously with the introduction of newer, more effective dewormers, the earliest of which was ivermectin.

Now, as the parasites developed resistance, other dewormers have been developed but ivermectin is still one of the principal ones used. At least the shortages are hitting towards the end of parasite season and hopefully by next spring, they will be back in stock. Of course with warmer winters, deworming goes on year round - when I got my first horseover fifty years ago we only wormed twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. Now we deworm every two months or six weeks.