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I am happy to share yet another wonderful story sent to me by two
friends, Lisa Hamilton and Mark Hall.
Meet the other Molly....
She's a grey speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners
when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana. She spent weeks on
her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where
abandoned animals were stockpiled.
While there, she was attacked by a pit bull terrier and almost died.
Her gnawed right front leg became infected, and her vet went to LSU
for help, but LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a welfare case.
But after surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He
saw how the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she
didn't seem to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her.
She protected her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight and
didn't overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious
survival ethic. Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee, and a
temporary artificial limb was built. Molly walked out of the clinic
and her story really begins there.
 'This
was the right horse and the right owner,' Moore insists. Molly
happened to be a one-in-a-million patient. She's tough as nails, but
sweet, and she was willing to cope with pain. She made it obvious
she understood that she was in trouble. The other important factor,
according to Moore, is having a truly committed and compliant owner
who was dedicated to providing the daily care required over the
lifetime of the horse. Molly's story turns into a parable for life
in Post-Katrina Louisiana. The little pony gained weight, and her
mane finally felt a comb. A human prosthesis designer built her a
leg.
 The
prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life, Allison Barca DVM,
Molly's regular vet, reports. "And she asks for it. She will put her
little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you
to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too. And
sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. It can be pretty bad when you
can't catch a three-legged horse," she laughs. Most important of
all, Molly has a job now.
Kay, the rescue farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters,
hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation Centers. Anywhere she
thought that people needed hope.
Wherever Molly goes, she shows people her pluck. She inspires
people, and she has a good time doing it. "It's obvious to me that
Molly had a bigger role to play in life," Moore said. "She survived
the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving
hope to others."
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