This was my thought, too. But I’m not sure there’s a drug, other than outright anesthesia, that would keep him down for 3 hours. And then, how would his vitals be monitored?
We all know KVS has gobs of money. Why doesn’t she hire a professional equine medical transport? There has to be an entity that provides such a service.
Getting him home is the easy part. It’s when he’s home, I’d be concerned and stressed for when they find him with laminitis or a broken limb or something even more tragic.
I don’t agree that the transport will be easy for him unless he’s laying down on deep bedding, and sedated. Even then, it is an unkind thing to do to this poor animal.
I don’t participate in any social media other than COTH. Can anyone gauge the accountability that the veterinarians involved in this situation are feeling? Have they answered any of the obvious questions put to them by educated horse people, especially about the end game that they envision for this poor colt?
I think it’s a little too late to claim privacy on behalf of the owner, for the veterinarians to refuse to answer intelligent questions about the veterinary ethics of what they are doing here.
The public nature of this disaster, spread all over the internet as it is, the participation in the publicity by the owner and the treating veterinarians, makes any “privacy” excuse for not answering the many, many, genuine questions about their reasoning, moot.
I hope that all of the people involved in this will have a good think about what they have done and will have learned not to do this sort of extreme experiment again.
My guess is he will be in a trailer with all the appropriate necessities plus some happy meds as he has never trailer loaded or ridden in a trailer.
He probably spends a good part of his life laying down as it is.
I believe they will likely lay him down. He does not get up on his own easily, I don’t think.
Doesn’t he spend quite a bit of time laying down anyway?
Here’s what I’ve gathered, mostly third party screenshots, she’s going to trailer him in the stock trailer bedded with shavings and straw. I hope she’s going to bed it deep as she says it’s going to be done, but her husbandry leaves a bit to be desired.
My take on listening to Dr Ursine (sp?) is she dances around specific QOL questions, but then I don’t know who are sending in the questions. I feel the vet is walking a fine line while trying to educate and explain what’s going on with him. Are experienced horse people following and asking or are the questions coming from fans? The fans who post the most are not living in reality, so they are not prepared to hear the truth about Seven. An example is a lot of fans believe he’s going to live to be a ripe old age and be a babysitter for upcoming foals.
Maybe the KVS (& Bank of Dad) pockets don’t run that deep?
But surely her legion of clickbait fans would GFM for their mascotbaby.
Or buy enough 7 merch to pay that bill 
Her plan to haul him in a stock trailer for 3h is harebrained.
Even bedded 3 feet deep & with max tranq onboard, it’s going to be awful.
Add in the mini also on that trailer & 
Can he get up unassisted?
If not, that might be the only thing allowing him to get to her farm still alive.
The questions Dr. U is answering come from the comments on KVS videos. The answers and accompanying requests for donations go out via KVS monetized videos. It would be career suicide for Dr. U to speak the truth about the future before KVS chooses to be realistic. Fans would be vicious, KVS would at minimum destroy the vet’s reputation if not the university hospital’s as well, and the university would come down on Dr. U for cutting off donations.
I know the legs are bad but I cannot get past the spine. Has there ever been discussion of spinal deformity; hemi verts, scoliosis, fusion?
I don’t think he’s chubby, I think that is his QH genetics being crammed into a body that has growth issues.
I have only been following on this thread - I don’t want to give her a bigger audience.
But, for shipping I was thinking a regular trailer stall with some kind of sling arrangement. Leaving him loose in a stock trailer sounds like a VERY bad idea.
Not only the spine but the fused front leg). He has such a disparity front to back. I don’t think his front legs are growing much at all. Of course his hocks are wicked straight which jacks his back end up. Yes, I think he has a kyphosis in his lumbar spine. I know they probably obliterated the growth plate when they fused the one front and I am suspecting the other front, they didn’t develop normally. His front legs just look abnormally short.
I’m following this foal as well
There’s a thread on the 3-legged foal in Off Course:
Ugh. She just got another recip mare- OTTB, lame, ad was for $3,500 plus hauling costs. 
Good grief.
New video of Seven up.
Link?
On her page like always
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