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A Peg Leg Pony Named Bunny – MU Veterinary Hospital Saves a Horse Named Bunny

When Shannon Reed first met Bunny, she wasn’t sure there was anything she could do. The 22-inch-tall, 70-pound miniature horse was born with severely deformed legs. Casey Smith, founder of a nonprofit shelter for neglected equines, brought Bunny to MU after rescuing the mini from a large-production breeding farm, more accurately called a mill, Smith

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MU Veterinary Team Beats Odds to Save Horse’s Vision

For Angel, a 4-year-old Missouri Fox Trotter, the options appeared limited. At the urging of a friend who operates the ranch where the young horse is boarded, Angel’s owner, Laurie McCarthy of Bentonville, Ark., took her horse to a local veterinarian for what she suspected was a blood clot in Angel’s eye. The veterinarian’s diagnosis