Angel's Story

Angel’s Story
We do not have a lot of history on Angel but do know that her owner’s could no longer care for her properly. She had been found once wandering in the desert, and taken in by someone. Now she was thin and had sore feet which appeared to be from lack of care. The owner’s decided to give her away, so a Good Samaritan took her in. Now already having more horses than one needs, and realizing that she needed veterinary care a call was made to CFH for help. Of course we had to give her a chance; after all she was only 15 years old and was as sweet as could be. Immediately after receiving her into the program and evaluation was done to determine what her immediate needs were. Food was just one of those needs but the main focus would need to be on her feet. We could tell that she had some founder issues as she had great difficulty in moving around and tried to keep as much weight as she could off of her front feet. Her feet had heels that were 41/2” high. She spent much of that time laying on the ground and just moaning in pain. Right away we had a farrier work on lowering the heels a little to relieve some of the pressure from walking on her toes and put some Hoofwings boots on her feet to protect them. Dr. Prentice was called and came as soon as she was available. The x-rays taken were worse than expected. The x-rays showed that she had navicular disease, but in addition the coffin bones had actually rotated over 27 degrees and had broken off and were shattered within her hoof. A decision was quickly made to have her put to rest and out of pain as there was nothing else that could be done for Angel.

She only touched our lives for a short time, but she had the sweetest, softest eyes and did not deserve to have lived the way she had. Angel also had scars on her back from ill fitting saddles and you could tell she had been used very hard and cared for very little.