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Equine amputee puts her best foot forward

by Sean_ | August 01, 2006
"When you save a person's life that person becomes your responsibility until the end of his days,"
- Roger Brincker

Calgary, Alberta - If cats do indeed have nine lives, Sweet Nothing is living proof that horses have at least three.

Saved first from the slaughterhouse, then from a devastating leg injury that veterinarians said called for euthanasia, the small bay mare is now one of a handful of horses in the world to sport a customized prosthetic limb after her bad hind leg was amputated below the hock.

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