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About
Gina Keesling
and Farriers Greeting Cards
Hoofprints
Hoofprints.com |
We
started Farriers' Greeting Cards in 1988 when I made the first
Christmas Card for my husband (a farrier) to send to his clients
thanking them for their business. We started with just the Holiday
cards - soon our catalog included T-shirts, art prints, gifts and
educational items. Hoofprints became our main supplier for farrier
prints (which are rare & fairly hard to find)....... more |
Now Molly is inspiring others, and is the
subject of a wonderful children's book, available through Hoofcare
and Lameness magazine (click here)
http://hoofcare.com/mollythepony.html |
Molly,
Inspiring Hurricane Survivor
Hurricane Pony Survivor given new lease on life, now inspiring others.
When my husband was a farrier, we
attended symposiums all over the country about the latest hoof care
findings. We saw, occasionally, cases where a very valuable horse had
such terrible foot damage that they would amputate, then attach a
prosthesis in order to produce more foals out of them before having to
put them down.
So this case - where it's just an abandoned backyard pony getting this
special treatment - is remarkable. And the fact that she's responded
so well and been such an inspiration to others certainly reinforces
the idea that the best care should NOT be reserved for only the most
valuable equines who's owners have unlimited funds.
She's a gray-speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when
Katrina hit southern Louisiana. She spent weeks on her own before
finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were
stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a pit bull terrier, and
almost died. Her gnawed right front leg became infected and her vet
went to LSU for help. But LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a
welfare case. You know how that goes.
After surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He saw how
the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she didn't seem
to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her. She protected
her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight, and didn't
overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious survival
ethic.
Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee and a temporary
artificial limb was built. Molly walked out of the clinic and her
story really begins there. Now Molly is inspiring others, and is the
subject of a wonderful children's book, available through Hoofcare
and Lameness magazine (click here)
http://hoofcare.com/mollythepony.html |
