When Ranger, a 6-year-old Quarter Horse, suffered a life-threatening leg injury, his owner and the CSU Equine Field Service team refused to give up
Ranger, a 6-year-old Quarter Horse gelding, reminded our Equine Field Service, and his owner, just how resilient and surprising horses can be.
Malorie Deines was trying to give Ranger a bath when he got loose and injured his fetlock on a post. “It was a wild goose chase,” Deines said. “My dad and I finally caught him, and he had a pretty big gash right above his fetlock. I was worried about tendons and that kind of thing, so I called the field service. They came out and stitched him up.”
He started on antibiotics and began to heal but then ripped out the stitches, so Deines had to call the field service back out…