08/22/2025
Hi everyone, I have some very unfortunate news to share. I have contemplated putting this post up all night as I don’t usually share things like this through social media but I know how many lives she’s touched being a foundation horse of our program and one of my and my moms heart horses.
Unfortunately Summer our beautiful, sweet paint mare somehow stepped on a nail out in the field last week and went in the worst possible area it could go in her foot. We made the call for emergency vet Tuesday, he came out did a bunch of x-rays and got told she needed surgery asap so loaded up in the trailer and off to Paton and Martin which is luckily only 10 minutes from us. We were given 50% odds of successful recovery with emergency surgery or euthanasia, we opted for the surgery luckily getting an emergency vet loan in the last 10 minutes before we had to make the call on the go ahead for surgery or euthanasia. She made it through surgery amazingly and had been improving steadily for 5 days infection was decreasing she was weight bearing on the foot all was looking so good.. until it wasn’t we got the call Wednesday morning at 9:30am things had taken a turn the infection had increased and was showing more discomfort on the foot again. Vets had told us she was on the max dose fo medications and nothing more they could do. So we gave her the night to see if anything would change but unfortunately there was no positive change, we got to spend a beautiful sunny morning with her in nice lush green grass grazing and eating as many treats as a horse could ever dream of. She laid in the grass for one more sun nap with her head in my lap ❤️
The amount of hats she has worn in her life and lives she has touched both human and horse is something I was so blessed to witness and be a part of, especially watching the bond between her and my mom and biting her with the love bug for horses never did I think my mom would be the horsewomen she Is today but thanks to summer she is a kind, confident horsewomen.
I have started a gofundme page to help with all the emergency vet bills you can imagine have accumulated, any little bit helps a ton
https://gofund.me/61df26eb
RIP Summer, the most loyal, sweet, fiery, amazing girl ❤️
Hi guys, we had a very unfortunate freak accident happen in our … Rebecca McIvor needs your support for Raise money for Summers emergency vet and surgery bill
