SCARLETT - 13 year old chestnut QH mare - PLACED!

[schwung]

Scarlett is a 15 13 year old chestnut QH mare seized by King County Animal Control on January 19th, 2010 and currently residing at the main SAFE facility. She has a BCS of 2, and has lice. She is approx. 15h, extremely sweet and easy to handle. She was living with 3 other mares and several other farm animals (live and dead) in a small area with about a foot of mud and feces. Her feet are overgrown and flared, she has some rain rot and scratches on her hind legs, and she is in desperate need of dental care but she is in otherwise fair condition. She was palpated for pregnancy but while she has obviously had foals in the past and was likely used as a broodmare, no fetus was found on palpation.

At this time this is an active case and limited information can be shared. Charges will be pending with the accused neglecter of this mare and the other animals on the property.

Scarlett is not available for adoption at this time.

[cricket]

What a sweet face. Poor girl.

[mymercedes]

She is super cute and will be gorgeous once rehabbed!! Can't wait for more info on this one when the time comes!

[schwung]

Sweet Scarlett itching her butt on the arena rail. She's the only one we saw lice on, along with telltale patches of missing fur, but we treated all of them for lice today:

[shekaberry]

She reminds me of Isabelle. At least this group is well handled!

[coconut]

A few photos from Scarlett's first day at SAFE:





Scarlett on the right and Ruby to the left

[bailyskeeper]

i can not even understand how people can do that to such sweet horses. i have never met this horses but they look like such sweet girls. i hope they get nice and fat and happy hand have great happy lifes

[schwung]

Scarlett got her feet done. Here's the summary I sent to the AC officer. Poor girl!

Scarlett had at least three old abcess tracks on her right front as well as one actively draining abcess in her sole. Her left front had an even bigger, deeper abcess at the toe which had several pus pockets. Both were opened up and she is now bandaged and wearing boots with an epsom salt poultice to help draw the fluid out. She is likely lame on both front and thus was not showing any obvious lameness. She does have scratches/mud fever on both hind legs but was tolerant of having her feet handled.

[shekaberry]

"She is likely lame on both front and thus was not showing any obvious lameness. "

What does that mean? She is likely lame but not showing signs?

[winterlakesfarm]

if both feet hurt she will not favor one over the other so she actually gives the appearance of "soundness" due to moving equally on both sides.

This is why it is good to know how to check Digital Pulses at the auction or to have a vet do a pre-purchase when buying horses.

It is actually a trick of horse dealers to lame the horse on the other foot when they have a horse with navicular or other lameness.........

[schwung]

Scarlett is doing great! She's eating well and her abcesses have finished draining and look good. She still has patches in her coat from the lice (which are now gone) but she's shedding like crazy so I imagine she will look great in a few weeks. She does still have scratches on her hind legs but those are improving as well and she's tolerating having them treated a bit better now, so they aren't quite as sensitive.













Delilah got jealous during Scarlett's photo session and tried to hone in on the action:

[schwung]

Yay! Thanks to the news program we have an identification on Scarlett! I am still waiting for more information but she went by the name of "Julie" and is registered as "Skipa Jewel". She was leased out for use in a horsemanship program and it sounds like has a lot of training. I'm trying to get info on the others as well.

[Whitewolf821]

That's awesome that she's registered and well trained! Does SAFE have any chance of getting her papers?

[coconut]

exciting news about Scarlett! That helps

[mymercedes]

She's such a cute mare, and even in her intake pics you can see her quality. Sooo glad to have some history on her!! It would sure be great to get info on the others too. I wonder if Delilah has had any riding training??