Recent Snapchat posts has her making it very clear that he does not have much longer left…I’ll give her credit here, and I do feel for her.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kvsdiscuss/s/DVsgwxd3Fd Videos here
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His legs look like a lumpy scarecrow’s! Why would they keep going this long? It’s grotesque to let an animal suffer to feed your ego.
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It wasn’t ego. Money. She’s made a significant amount off Seven videos, and she’s likely to lose followers when she announces Seven is gone.
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I’m not sure I’ll be able to keep my big mouth shut if she starts selling “Seven as a horsey angel” merchandise after he’s gone.
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Nope.
F**k her “checklist”
One look at those forelegs & any horsperson should know euth was due YESTERDAY
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She looks really sad in that video, like the reality of it and what that means (so many angry fans) I do feel sorry for her having to explain again to her followers that he’s not long for this world. Especially the ones who want to ride or breed him.
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Nobody enjoys having to make the decision to put an animal to sleep. Having worked for vets in the past, IMO they are partially to blame for this. They are willing to do whatever a client is willing to pay for. I have seen many animals kept alive way to long because the owner had deep enough pockets to prolong the suffering for a little hope.
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From her FB:
“Baby Seven”
February 15,2024 - August 11,2025
Yesterday, we had to say goodbye to Seven sooner than we expected.
While we knew that we didn’t have years or even many months left with our sweet boy, we had hoped for more sunny days of watching him graze in the pasture. We had hoped for more mornings being greeted by his sweet, cheerful whinny. We had hoped for more evenings feeding him his favorite banana treats. We had just hoped for more.
This hot week proved hard for even healthy horses, and Seven started to show signs of colic, which led us to make the difficult but quick decision that he needed to be humanely euthanized.
If we had been able to see the full picture from the start, we might have made different choices, but life isn’t lived with the benefit of hindsight. We took each day as it came, guided by the experts who cared for him alongside us.
We have loved Seven fiercely from the moment he was found…standing…whinnying out in the middle of the cold, muddy pasture that he was born in at 286 days gestation. Anyone who dealt with Seven on a personal level knows the fight and LIFE that he exuded every single day. He WANTED life. He FOUGHT for life. He was a joy, and though he wasn’t able to be a “normal horse”, no one can say they didn’t fight for him to have that chance.
Regardless of what was learned from Seven’s journey, he will be paving the way for future equine veterinarians for years to come.
This year, the “Seven Scholarship” was created to give $7000 to 7 3rd year Equine Vet students and the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. That’s $49,000 directly from Seven’s legacy that goes directly back into veterinary medicine every year.
We have also started an endowment to ensure that this pledge continues, which I will leave a link below to donate towards if you wish.
Regardless of what anyone on the outside thinks, we just wanted Seven to have a happy life. We wanted for him what he desperately kept fighting for. We, as the ones who saw his life start under a microscope, wanted to make sure we gave him ever tool in our power to have the chance to thrive.
With that being said, life and decisions you make along the way don’t always work out the way you plan. With the curveballs, you still have to continue making the decisions you feel are right, which we did for Seven 100% of the time.
Thank you to Dr Christine and everyone at Tennessee Equine Hospital who saved Seven’s life and spent countless hours with him at the beginning of his life. Thank you for making his final moments peaceful and easy as well.
Thank you to Dr Ursini and everyone at UTCVM who loved and cared for Seven for so long, and truly gave your all into his wellbeing.
Thank you to everyone who loved Seven. We will miss him so much. Truly.
Please be kind, and please keep the Running Springs Family who loved & saw Seven daily in your prayers.
Comments have been turned off so this post can remain a peaceful space to honor Seven’s memory.
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Thanks for the update.
& copy of her post.
At rest, at last for Seven.
I hope she learned something.
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I think she has. And if the heat induced colic is a tale to deflect criticism over his euthanasia, I’m okay with that. The important thing is that he’s no longer struggling.
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Agree. I saw a video last week and something spooked him (he was out in his little pasture). He nearly went down. It wasn.t a big spook but he could barely recover from it.
Run free little Seven.
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Considering that she just spent more money on a chip removal surgery I doubt it’s a tale. She could have easily said that he didn’t make it out of surgery instead of going through the surgery and recovery.
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It sounded like she did not get the grave report from the vet until after the surgery (maybe they did extensive imagining while he was sedated for the surgery).
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I know Katie and her close circle at Running Springs are grieving. I’m sure her fans are grieving also, but I’m so glad the comments have been turned off on the post. There have been comments on the post about her new recip mare. While I don’t agree with how he was handled, I wasn’t there and he was her horse. I do believe she could have dodged a lot of the controversy, by her followers, of his passing by not sugar coating his condition. She continued calling him a miracle and saying he had such a will to live. He was, at the end of the day a horse, a prey animal that was hard wired to survive and all he could do was spook in place when a piece of machinery scared him. Maybe she should have shown him getting up and down, shown him trying to maneuver around his paddock.
The post she put up was very well written and seems heartfelt. I’m sorry for the loss of him, but I’m relieved he is no longer suffering. I’m adding the photo she posted, and a couple “fan” comments that show just how delusional they are. I truly feel sorry that Katie and those close to her are being so disrespected at this time.
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WTAF? People are delusional. I knew that, but this is ridiculous.
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The vast majority of people are so far removed from reality, it’s scary.
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Her world will be a better place without these people involved.
OMFG.
So unaware.
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Which is worse? Saying she made a mistake keeping him alive as long as she did, or that she should have never put him down at all?
People are clearly at both ends of the spectrum with this horse no matter what she did.
The latter, because the former actually shows care for the animal.
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I mean, im kinda honestly surprised he has not coliced yet? (Unless iv missed something, but im not exactly following her) as many drugs as he was probably on.
The comment about how she saved the broodmare and not him is just so ignorant. A healthy mare with a colic episode has a much better prognosis than a crippled, drugged, questionablely stable yearling. H doubt most vets would even call him a candidate for colic surgery.
A little voice in the back of my brain wonders if he finally had an accident in his turn out and there was no going back. Saying he coliced bad would be the easy way out if it was the case
Either way the little guy finally knows what its like to be pain free and able to run properly
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