Watching the video on reddit, ‘someone’s going to take this video, and twist it’
she took a shitshow of a broken baby horse and twisted it into social media clicks and income.
hell yeah I’m going to judge her putting on a Going to Town Face in order to Bring Home the Broken Bacon.
the whole thing is vile.
Yikes. Sorry. It is just a news link from a news station
A short clip of Seven walking.
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He looks so uncomfortable.
Can anyone here think that’s normal movement for any horse?
Honestly, if one of mine walked like that, I’d be thinking laminitis
Katie posted a clip about Seven and how they made decisions as he hit benchmarks. The word she used early on was “vigor”- he wanted to eat, wanted to stand, he wanted to thrive in spite of his undercooked body. She mentioned times they considered stopping over his course of treatment.
She said people have reached out to her with foals born too early and she’s told them to kiss them, hug them and put them down. She does not encourage owners to go in deep debt over vet bills and that Seven’s social media post paid for his care. Said she was very lucky.
They are going day by day. Seven will be “normal” for him but never like a regular horse. If they see pain he’s done. He’s on very, very low dose NSADS. For the first time during this ordeal she is talking like a sound horsewoman.
I know we don’t want to monetize her but if there was ever a honest post, this is the one. I’m surprised she wasn’t this forthcoming during some of the times they wondered about stopping verses the cheery, aw shucks updates the past 6 months.
She’s only being honest because now the responsibility and consequences are solely on her shoulders. It is entirely possible that some of the things that could happen to Seven could seriously damage her social media presence.
I think it’s entirely possible that a vast majority of the followers would revolt if Seven is put down for any reason. Do you really think that the majority of the crowd would understand, or believe, that a broken leg could not be fixed? Before, they might have been upset, but it could be spun onto the university and not damage her personally.
I think that might be because he is home now…front and center…She can’t ignore what she sees now that he is in front of her 24/7.
(Thank you for posting this so I don’t have to read her FB page).
And there it is. She knew the right, humane choice all along. Yet she was “lucky” because she didn’t have to make that choice since she’s wealthy to begin with, and she had the luxury of distance: It’s easier to fund the treatments and surgeries, experimental and otherwise, when she’s hours away. And hey, Internet strangers are paying for it!
But now, after the ordeal this poor equine soul has endured, she’s admittedly ready to put him down as soon as his daily dose of Bute or Equioxx proves worthless. Which, by the look of that peg-legged lurching, won’t be long now.
Apologies to everyone if I sound bitter. It’s just that I have put down too many horses, both very young and very old, who were still pricking their ears and nickering to me, yet I knew it was time because I did not want them to suffer pain, fear or debilitation. So I find KVS’s candid moment of self-reflection much too little and much too late.
I’m really floored by the fact that she still doesn’t seem to see the obvious: he’s in pain. Already.
I do think these recent videos are her way of preparing her followers for the inevitable, not very far off, euthanasia decision in order to minimize the backlash on her social media.
So, she was happy to string everyone along and create this beast of an online presence around 7 as long as it suited her. Now, she wants to move on to the next shiny thing without upsetting her followers. I see this as a BS fantasy that she built up herself and now regrets, not for the horse’s best interest, but for her own. She’s bored. Money is slowing down. There’s another grift that will work better so she wants to shift focus.
A good horseperson never does what is popular over what is right. A good horseperson makes the hard decision early and explains it, if need be. A good horseperson is willing to walk away from money rather than compromise their ethics. Horse care should never be decided based on a popularity contest. The horse comes first.
I don’t see someone coming to their senses. I see someone looking for an easy out and the next money making prospect.
This was exactly what I was thinking this morning.
After watching that video, I personally would have a hard time even turning him out. What happens when he rolls the wrong direction and can’t get up?
I lived within an hour of her in Middle TN for 9 years. There are predators, mainly coyotes, but others as well. We were would see them during the day, as well as at night. For the most part, if an animal is healthy, it is not an issue, but there is no way that poor horse can defend himself. Even calves have the momma cow to defend them.
I think it’s a little silly to suggest that a “predator” would hunt this horse. He’s in the middle of a major breeding farm and gets supervised limited daytime turnout in a paddock fenced with wood and wire. He’s not a newborn foal on the open range surrounded by wolves. We have coyotes here as well, they show zero interest in horses and are certainly not going to range in the middle of a developed area like this “hunting” horses. I have no idea what other “predators” exist in TN but I’m guessing nothing that is going to take down a horse in the middle of a developed area.
I am not in TN, but I would guess my area is more developed than what the farm 7 lives on is and the coyotes walk right thru my yard. (Edit to clarify, by yard I mean, the lawn. The backyard of my house.)
I agree that they are not interested in a healthy full sized horse. The horses do not seem to care about the coyotes either.
But an injured, unable to move animal might be interesting if the coyotes are hungry.
Not that it is a risk to 7, but I will add that the fox have no problem hunting just several feet from the back door of my house (my chickens that were free ranging and I ran into the house to use the restroom).
Developed (whatever that means to you in this situation) does not mean lack of predators.
Disclaimer - I personally do not think that 7 is going to be outside enough to have to worry about him becoming predator food.
Fox or Coyote are not a danger to horses in almost all scenarios and again, he’s in a wire fenced paddock and is monitored constantly during limited turn out. Suggesting that he is in danger of predator attack is ridiculous.
In danger of bucking a bit too much and breaking a leg sure. I think it is far more likely that he begins to have trouble getting up and down and is euthanized because of that. I don’t think coming up with unrealistic scenarios helps this situation, the reality is it will be far more mundane.
I thought most of her video was open about what her thought process was, but she lost me when she started to compare him to a disabled person. She did backtrack a bit and say she knows animals are not the same. I believe she knew she crossed a line there because it’s been discussed on other platforms about her followers saying things like that and it was offensive to the ones who have disabled family members or who are disabled themselves.
I agree that now that he’s home and she sees, every day, how he is she’s setting it up for when she puts him down. She admits that due to her social media presence he paid his own bills. She also mentioned the pain meds that they’ve said he wasn’t on while at the hospital, and that she hasn’t seen him laying down. There are cameras on him 24 hours a day.
I also don’t think that article was the best for her social media platform. While there was a lot of rah rah posts, real horse people started commenting and trying to educate the cheering section on what his future really looks like.
I have seen a lot of people saying that it is setting an example for a disabled child as a role model and letting the disabled know that they matter. I have seen the same thing with the 3 legged foal. That any talk of putting it down gives wrong messages to a disabled person. It’s a comparison that makes me uneasy, people aren’t the same as animals and there’s a huge difference mechanically between a disabled horse and a disabled dog.
Interesting point. I would be more worried about a dog, either a farm dog or a stray.
If anyone thinks she’s now “being honest and transparent”, they’re a fool.
ALL social media is scripted and narrated. She’s not suddenly being any more honest or transparent than she has for the duration of any of this, she just knows she’s backed into a corner and this horse will need to be euthanized (finally, thank god) so she’s playing the card to garner sympathy. “Oh wow, KVS has really turned a corner - THIS is the kind of content I like!” … it’s the same fucking content with a different label. Generate clicks, generate views. It’s a game and she’s very good at it.
I’m inclined to agree with this.
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