Success! Sort-of. Andy had another vet visit, and one of his gums had healed up nicely. The other was trapping food still, so it had to have some work done. The vet used a burr on the power float to widen the space in between the two molars where the pit was, so any food that gets in there will just fall out instead of getting mashed up into the gum and getting infected. So on Saturday Andy gets to go back to his normal diet of hay, and he gets to go out on pasture again! Yay! He was such a good horse for the vet. Last time the vet tried to look in his mouth without sedation he threw a hissy fit and gave him quite a fight. This time he cooperated quite nicely. The vet was even surprised. I figure his mouth was probably hurting him before, so now it probably feels better and he's less fussy about it being touched. He's also taking the bit easier, so I bet he feels a lot better. From now on I am definitely getting his teeth floated every 6 months instead of once a year.

I looked in Love Bug's mouth this week to see what her teeth looked like. Hah! Teeth? 22 years of cribbing has left her with practically NO incisors to speak of, just gums. My mom was horrified when she saw it, but the lack of front teeth obviously isn't affecting that fat little pony too much.