09/17/2025
Today during vet day we made Chloe our main priority. Her lameness has been getting worse at foster, and worse even since arriving here (she was becoming lame on the opposite front as well from compensating). At only three years old she has developed severe Fibroblastic sarcoids on her leg at the coronet band and above. She is not tame so required full sedation for exam. The tumors were extremely odious and flies have been a problem with it for some time. Up close examination revealed changes to the hoof, thickening of the entire pastern/fetlock area, and lack of flexion. One tumor was not well attached, the other was very attached and more than half way around the leg in a joint area. A brief consult with our vet and a specialist at a clinic in California told us the chance for meaningful recovery was extremely poor given the hoof issues, overall size of area affected, soundness issues, and how aggressive the sarcoidosis was at such a young age. She was humanely euthanized.
Extreme Fibroblastic Sarcoids have a guarded to poor prognosis even in the best case scenario, which we definitely didn't have. Given our history with treating these lower leg Sarcoids in the past, we knew the chances going in weren't good. In those instances even surgery did not stop the tumor from growing back to original size within 6 weeks. It still doesn't make it any easier to euthanize an otherwise healthy, beautiful filly.
