Wildlife Conservation United States Project #18392

Save a Horse: Rescue and Rehabilitate Mustangs

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Save a Horse: Rescue and Rehabilitate Mustangs

Project Report | Jun 10, 2015
Pachinkco's story

By Kate Robey | Charitable Trust Operations Manager

Pachinkco when she arrived at the WHRC

Dear Supporter,

Meet Pachinkco, one of our rescues that your funding was able to help.

Pachinkco is a 25 year old mustang who, when she arrived, was grossly under weight, had hoofs that were incredibly long and was totally wild. She was afraid of humans due to years of neglect and mishandling from people. This neglect also meant that she had no confidence and no pride left in her soul. Pachinkco was afraid and worried all the time and in incredible amounts of pain from her hoofs being too long, which caused discomfort to her legs and body. Her pain was so great that she couldn't even defend herself against the other horses she was with, who would try to take her hay and feed.

The first order of business was to get Pachinkco strong enough so that we could lay her down in order to trim her hoofs. A big problem that we are faced with in Florida is sand colic. So the first thing we had to do was get the sand out of her belly by feeding her large amounts of hay, especially alfalfa which is coarse and helps to push sand out of intestines. We also added a sand removal product to her grain. Next we had to de-wrom her. All of this is to make sure that Pachinkco was healthy enough for the sedation needed to be able to trim her hoofs.

The hay alone is anywhere from $7.00-$36.00 per bale, depending on the type, then sanding product runs about $25 per week to use. Our vet, Dr. Seiler, has been out twice and is due to come out again in 2 weeks time. It takes many months to reshape the hoofs due to the many years of neglect.

This is a costly process to say the least and your donations have gone a long way to help Pachinkco in her lengthy recovery.

Thank you for your continued support of the Wild Horse Rescue Centre!

All the best,

GVI Charitable Trust

Links:

www.gvi.org

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