Seems to be doing good. Hope you post another picture of her in the near future.

Bless your heart for rescuing her.

Wow! She looks awful! Is she going to be all right? Her skin looks bad!

Was she laying down a lot? Is that how her skin got irritated? What were they thinking? Did they not have the proper room for her???

It looks like rain rot. Poor thing. I'm glad she's in a better place with wonderful people to take care of her.

So am I, cat. Wow, I can't even imagine not taking care of an animal that God's put in my care!

I have a couple of online friends who run a farm for animal rescue. It is such a difficult task that depends so much on the largess of others. It's times like these I dream of winning a mega lottery just so I can give people like you and those online friends the money.

Poor thing died. She was too starved to take in even simple nutrition and coliced, twisting her compromised gut due to a lack of muscle.

Equine colic is a relatively common disorder of the digestive system. Although the term colic, in the true definition of the word, simply means “abdominal pain,” the term in horses refers to a condition of severe abdominal discomfort characterized by pawing, rolling, and sometimes the inability to defecate. Torsion or twisting of the gut in horses, also known as a volvulus, can occur in the large intestine or small intestine and is one of the more serious causes of colic. With a lack of muscle, there was nothing to keep her gut from twisting.

Greencat - It wasn't rain rot, but crusted manure from laying down in the confines of a small stall that was never cleaned. The stall had 12 foot tall brick walls, but when she stood, there was so much poop and muck in there that she almost could have stepped over the wall. It was a truly horrific case of neglect. I didn't dare bathe her because she would have chilled in our cold weather. We lightly brushed her but even that was almost torture as her skin was so scabbed from laying in the caustic muck. However, the only reason we can figure she survived in there so long without water was due to the moisture of the muck absorbing through her skin.

OH MY GOSH!!! Reading this just really makes me not like those previous owners!!! What was their excuse??? God knows, but still, oh my gosh!!!

I'm so glad Gracie had love before she passed away. It was probably the first time she felt peace at all. Oh, Lord, I cannot even imagine, I'm so glad she had you, if even for a short time!!!

I'm so sorry to hear you lost her. But, as Churchgoer said, her last days were filled with compassion and caring. Bless you.

Now she can rest in peace. I just feel so bad for her!

Oh I just don't have the words to describe how truly horrible I feel for that poor horse! Why in the HECK do people treat their animals so badly? There should be jail time involved and those people shouldn't be allowed to own/run any type of farm/ranch ever again!!!!! Do you know if anything was done to those horrible people? Were they even fined?????

We honestly do not know other than they moved.

So they just moved and left those poor animals all alone with nothing??? That's SOOOOO wrong on so many levels!!! There's a special place in HELL for people like that in my book!!! I am glad she's not suffering any longer but she should've never gotten into that state to begin with!!! I just keep shaking my head... I'll never understand how people can be so cruel to their animals!!! My dog is like my child! He's spoiled rotten and dearly loved!