But plenty 
to pour into the vet hospital & to keep her blog/vlog going?
She seriously needs to throw in the towel.
Either donate him to UT for research or euth.
I’m glad TikTok won’t work for me. I don’t need to see this clickbait travesty 
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I’ll be honest, I was cheering for him all along. The day he was born, I felt she had given up and expected she was going to put him to sleep any day. I was happy he over came so many obstacles, but maybe things weren’t such a bleasing. Now, he’s been in hospitals for almost a year. With all the money and knowledge and still…
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Seven’s LF remains weak and he isn’t able to bear full weight on it for any length of time. How long before Seven has a mechanical founder on his RF due to over compensation?
He has sweet soft eyes and his own foal personality but no way will those 4 legs support his body as he continues to grow, no matter how stunted that may be.
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It made me sad watching him stare at the other horse in the video and getting excited when it started getting feisty. He’s missing out on so many horsey things—he’ll never be able to run and play…
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Another thought: I often wonder if he would have a better outcome if they had allowed him to bear weight as a newborn. Sure it would have caused issues down the line but pain management for arthritis is a lot better than… this. I don’t understand why they didn’t at least try a sling.
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Is there a link to the TikTok video?
I’d like to believe that they are taking all of these things into account but my own experience leaves me baffled at their choices for rehab.
Leg and hooves need to be weight bearing to stimulate growth, bones grow faster than soft tissue and weight bearing would help with increasing range of motion as well. Proprioceptors that help the body know where it is in space are developed through weight bearing as well and would reduce tripping. Shoulder and spinal stability which promotes mobility is also developed through weight bearing. For sure there are accommodations that would need to be made for a quadruped to be in a sling but that would be easy to accommodate with graduated increase of weight bearing in a sling to resting. Logically I would have deducted that resting sternally with the sling provided just to maintain the position without pressure would have been more ergonomical than lying flat out for a foal.
I spent 6 months as a groom/manager of an equine spa and a healthy horse’s pelvis has so much movement when viewed from above in the water treatment. Little Seven is so minimal and seems unilateral. Having the water below his belly is making the exercise primarily focused on building strength through the resistance of the water. That’s a lot of work for a body that has very minimal range of motion. If they allowed him so buoyancy with the water up to mid-shoulder, his spine would be able to stretch more into extension and he’d have greater range to catch himself prior to the buckling.
Banking on him to stop growing in the next 2-3 years for long enough seems short sighted and ignorant. The point that he needs regular intervention after so many months should clue them in to his quality of life.
I’m disgusted.
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Perhaps there should be a letter writing campaign to the vet school requesting some kind of review or oversight investigation into Seven’s quality of life and the decision processes being made in his care?
Considering the recent Ashlee Watts case, now may be a good time to be hyper focused on awareness campaigns.
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Have they pulled the recent video??
All I see is the screenshot (and a bunch of comments), but no matter where I clicked I was unable to find any actual video footage. (Forgive me in advance if it’s just my own ineptitude - I don’t really use TikTok!)
Any other way to link?
TIA!
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I actually refuse to give her any social media viewership - the screenshot I posted was pulled from the reddit group that discusses her posts. Apologies - I just don’t think anyone should be promoting viewership on any of her platforms.
Here is that discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/kvssnark/comments/1i4hcrx/watch_this_video_of_him_barely_being_able_to/
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Thank @Arelle - I actually found it by Googling - and yeah, I agree with all the other posts here.
It borders on the grotesque at this point.
Dr. Ursini seemed less than enthusiast as she provided the latest “report”; as a vet who surely sees the writing on the wall, she must be feeling pretty ambivalent.
But they have to keep the whole farce going, I guess. 
Poor animal. Without the ability to even balance “on his pins” or move comfortably he must feel a level of frustration and vulnerability. How is this any kind of “quality of life” for an ungulate??
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It’s so hard to watch. He’s such a cutie, but I just can’t imagine it ending w him as a pasture ornament.
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My understanding is that the bones in his joints were still so soft that weight bearing would have simply crushed them. But that was a long time ago and I could be wrong.
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That left front leg was the good leg. It’s the one that wasn’t fused. It looks barely usable now.
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I have seen nothing of this disaster but what I’m seeing here. I have no words.
What an horrendous thing to do to a foal. My faith in some of the experts in the Veterinary profession has been destroyed. That poor poor little animal. 
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Just occurred to me that LF is probably so badly over at the knee/contracted due to the RF having been fused. The good leg will carry on while growth in the bad leg is stunted. The good leg then kinda folds to keep the body kinda level.
I know a horse that had a nasty accident and when the vets finished putting the mangled leg back together they straight up said that when the horse was finished growing it would be over at the knee on the good leg. Yup. That horse was considerably older than 7 so not in as rapid growth spurts. (Horse is fine but requires careful farriery and general management) That really makes me wonder if the LF will continue to get worse and worse. It may also explain why they’re not bothering with splinting that leg to stretch the soft tissues - it’s going to do what it’s going to do and helping it to straighten may make things completely catastrophic 
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Wait what? It’s ok to keep the horse alive as long as ownership is relinquished to the vet hospital? And if the owner insists on continuing to post videos on the internet, the horse should be euthanized? Either the horse is suffering to the point that he needs to be euthanized, or he’s not. That decision cannot be made based on the publics’ opinion of the owner.
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