Equines

Permanent Equine Residents

Echo

Echo is a long-term foster equine here from Cottage Rescue, he arrived at the end of 2007.

He was in horrific condition when Hannah and Kelly, of Cottage Rescue, found him but luckily for him

they worked their ‘magic’ on him and after several months he was in a position to move on to a

long-term foster home which is when we stepped in and offered a place here for him.

A cruelty case was brought against Echo’s owner and he was successfully prosecuted for cruelty

by the judge. Cottage Rescue were highly commended by the judge for the great job

they did in bringing Echo back to full health and for all the work they do for other animals.

Ginger

At the beginning of September 2008 Ginger entered our lives, sometimes people will think they have

“pulled the wool” over your eyes when in actual fact it is the other way around just you do not bother to

make a big deal about it because to you it is more important to get the animal to safety than the ‘spoof’

that is coming out of an owner’s mouth. Ginger was being used as a lead rein pony in a riding school ...

whatever about the proprietors of the school but shame on all the people/parent’s who stood looking

at him week after week and did not care about the state of his feet or think about the pain he would

have been enduring as he ‘numbly’ carried their child around the arena

From the moment we laid eyes on a photo of this sweet boy we felt it was highly likely that he had

Cushings Disease and so we decided we would go take a closer look .... ‘oh dear’, well actually slightly

stronger words than those filtered through our minds, was the first thought that entered our minds

when we saw him ‘in the flesh’ ... his hooves were grossly overgrown and someone in their effort

to ‘shorten’ them had just cut straight across the fronts of them. There and then the decision was

made, he simply had to come to live with us so we could ensure that he could receive proper farrier care

and have the tests for Cushings done. It has been a slow road for Ginger’s hooves but with each

trim they are improving and with the overgrown ‘turn-ups’ gone he has more comfort walking around. He is

still getting hoof strengthening supplements to help build up their strength to reduce the crumbling.

Our suspicions about Cushings Disease was confirmed after our vet ran the tests for us so at the

moment Ginger is on medication everyday in an effort to bring some control over it. Time will tell how

this disease will effect the quality and longevity of this gentle well-mannered boy’s life.

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Ginger’s age is estimated to be somewhere around 14yrs+,

this is a photo of how he looked this summer.

Site Last Updated 12 January 2010