I worked with many veterinarians through my 43 year career. They are not all paragons and animal lovers
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Yes. All I could think while watching that was, if this was my horse, my vets would have no hesitation in telling me to put him down. Aside from the fact that I could never afford all of this, there’s just no quality of life for this baby.
I don’t know how those vets sleep at night, to be honest.
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I feel like this is a situation where the vets have, in the past, seen preemie babies recover to have a decent quality of life so they thought ‘just one more ___ and he will be okay’ over and over and now they have dug themselves a hole so deep that they can’t get out, so they just keep digging down.
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Is he getting up and down on his own now?
I think the trailer ride home he will be laying down the whole way.
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His getting up and down has not been mentioned, so that’s not known. I don’t click on the majority of her videos, she shows up on my FB feed and I get a lot of info from Reddit.
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Nope, and some are very focused on bringing in money no matter what!
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No video right now, but the latest update was the vet answering questions again. This time it was about Seven and what the drs at the hospital had and were learning from his case. What I found interesting was it seemed to me was Dr U talking around his future when he leaves the hospital. The Dr was talking about writing up the case, since it is a teaching hospital, but said they really couldn’t yet as they don’t know how he will do out of the hospital environment. She danced around calling him lame. I, mentally, interpreted what she was getting at was he has no chance at surviving very long away from the controlled environment he’s been in. It was made clear that the hospital has done all they can at this time. His move date has been set back toward the end of the month. Katie has admitted she’s scared for when he comes home.
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The mare who never goes out is actually this poor thing’s dam.
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Which to me is garbage because the horse should have been put down long ago and she knows it. Instead he was some case study who is now going to meet a catastrophic end. Selfish from all involved.
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If she had a shred of integrity, she’d have him euthanized rather than take him home.
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I was just about to post the same sentiment, which I’m sure many of us share.
The vet gets to publish her write ups on the marvelous (/s) interventions employed to address Seven’s numerous deformities. So, I guess, a win for her and the school.
Meanwhile, poor Seven goes home to a dubious life of sorts that by all signs is not going to end well.
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Yes, exactly.
Poor animal 
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Is this the mare who was just so awesome and speshul but suffered some kind of catastrophic injury, so she’s preserved in a stall because she must be kept alive at all costs?
I just have to say that during my life with horses, I’ve witnessed several notable cases (two quite recently) where mares that were beautifully bred but never quite right soundness-wise were bred and produced foals that had very significant congenital issues. While that might not always be the case, sometimes Nature is giving people a sign.
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Same thoughts.
My H/J trainer had a gorgeous mare with a major screw loose.
Mare wasn’t dependable in the showring, nasty on the ground.
So trainer bred her 
Because yes, let’s make more of these 
I wasn’t around to see the results of this program. But my money’s with yours, unlikely to pass along anything good.
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I read on a Reddit post that Katie said on Snapchat that if she knew then what he was facing and the cost she probably should have, or would have, euthanized. I don’t remember how it was worded and I don’t follow Katie on her platforms. I skim her Facebook posts and get other things from what’s carried over to Reddit.
I really feel so bad for that poor baby. I can’t see him lasting more than 6 months without an accident when he’s home, if he makes the 3 hour trip home in the stock trailer. It’s heartbreaking that his poor life is down to being a case study and cash cow. Sadly if (when) this ends badly she’ll still use him and bring out the merch.
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It sounds as if it’s just now dawning on them, vets and owner alike, that the horse has to leave the hospital at some point in time and how unfit he is to survive with any quality of life.
That poor baby. So they think that putting him in a horse trailer and driving for three hours is in his best interest? Just the thought of it makes me sick. Enough already.
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Call me Cynic , but this sounds suspiciously like a setup for the future merchandising of Saint Seven.
I’d like to think reporting her on FB might shut her down, at least on that platform.
Do TikTok, Insta, et al have community standards she might be considered to be violating?
Likely to fall on deaf ears 
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Oh definitely there’ll be Seven merchandise. She has other merch in her “store” of passed animals. And yes, I used passed instead of past. She’ll squeeze out every dime that can be made using that poor baby.
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I agree. I think the vets got wrapped up in doing just one more procedure and didn’t “see the forest for the trees.”
Also, just for clarity, the show mare that doesn’t carry her own babies anymore due to an injury is kept in a Paddock as the pastures are hilly and rocky. Katie also said that the injury wasn’t genetic.
I’m not a fan, but I also don’t demonize her for taking advantage of gullible people to make money. In a very simplistic way, she does try to educate the ignorant masses.
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Ugh. I almost hate myself for saying this, but I can envision the cheesy incarnations now.
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