Mare With Melanoma: A Teacher to the End

Years ago my family became the owners of a beautiful, older Arab mare named Danza Mia. She�s been mentioned in this column several times, including a couple of years ago when we had to make the decision for euthanasia. Based on her necropsy, it

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Years ago my family became the owners of a beautiful, older Arab mare named Danza Mia. She’s been mentioned in this column several times, including a couple of years ago when we had to make the decision for euthanasia. Based on her necropsy, it was the right decision. She had a basketball-sized melanoma in her gut and other smaller melanomas.

My veterinarian, Dr. Carol McLeod, had suspected internal melanomas based on the fact that the mare was gray, she had external melanomas, and she had intermittent colic episodes. What we learned on necropsy was that Danza Mia would have died before long, in a much more tragic manner, if we had not chosen to euthanize her. She was a great mare for my youngest daughter and anyone else whom we wanted to give a nice, quiet, safe experience with a horse. And she continues to teach in this magazine as we use images of her melanomas to help you learn more about this disease. I think Danza Mia would be glad that even in her death she can continue to help horse owners.

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Sometimes I wonder how we got out of our own way to create the country we live in today. It’s okay that we disagree, but please, let’s use some logic! Especially when the health and welfare of one of our national symbols is at stake

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Kimberly S. Brown is the editor of EquiManagement/EquiManagement.com and the group publisher of the Equine Health Network at Equine Network LLC.

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