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Glad he'll be okay! Seeing any animal get injured can be heart-wrenching and extremely anxiety-inducing. Our lovely little money munchers do love to hurt themselves, don't they?
Here's hoping he doesn't try to replicate the accident. :D

"Poisoned by another boarder"?? Did you find out who did it and call the police? That sort of thing... I just can't believe how horrible people can be sometimes. The lady that I bought my first horses from, she told me about how someone came onto her place while she was at work and killed her dogs and slashed her Arab stallion's throat. He didn't die of it, but it was a heck of a gash to have stitched up. I wish every day we could all just build an impenetrable wall around our critters to protect them. :(

we knew who did it but unfortunately she was just ignorant. She sprayed her horse down with Malathion mixed with diesel fuel and something else for fly control. Malathion when dry is safe but she put her horse out while it was still wet and Zeff bit her horse where is was the most concentrated along the top line. We found him in the field going in circles almost like he had lock jaw.. I was banned from the barn until I seen the ambulance going up the driveway and ran up to see them loading my mom into the back and my dad yelling to shoot Zeff (he was upset I get that but uncalled for none the less)... anyways, Zeffirelli apparently kicked my mom in the side lacerating her liver and kidney and she had a 3 day stay in the hospital. Anyways, a local man named scott at another barn came and every time Zeff would come down from rearing, he would get 1cc of ace into his neck until we were able to semi safely walk him into the barn... to this day, I fully belive Scott saved him.. unfortunately he passed away a few years ago but if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have been able to get Zeffirelli into the barn and resources would have been limited...
Over the course of the next 2 weeks we battled with him getting stuck in the corners of the stall and beating himself against the walls and pawing because he couldnt figure out how to get out of the corners, gnawing on the Cinderblock walls, gnawing at the clay floors, chewing on the bars... it was horid.. I have it all on video somewhere too...

Wow @KhaosAcres! Ziff sounds like one of the Wreck-it horses on the game!