She's my Mom's six year old TB/Paint that we rescued six months ago as a very underweight horse with a secondary staff infection in her legs and mud founder. Cassia is doing much better now, and is still filling out in the withers and butt. I'd like to see more muscling on her, but as she is healthy and can do round penning now I'm sure it will happen. :)

Wow, what a lucky mare!!! Looks like she has a great home now and she looks awesome!!!! I like her pretty head and nice legth of neck, she is elegant!! I think she has a very kind look to her eye(face) too!! I think her back is short and her general look is well balanced and nice!!  Her legs... well hard to tell from that angle and just one picture but I can see she has great hoof care and is a very lucky girl to have your calibre of husbandry!!!! I feel from the sweet look on her face you can safely know she thinks she's lucky to be with you!!! Darcie

ps. She has smashing markings too!!

Foundered from standing in mud and eating wood....  I can see why when eating wood because founder/laminitis is caused by the formation of endotoxins brought on by the overloading of the gut with carbohydrates, this in time then reduces the blood flow to the feet due to a build up of bacteria from lactic acid, but certainly not from standing in mud honey, mud will only cause mud rash, mud fever, cracked heels, secondary infection can occur after the skin has been penetrated by the contents in the mud, but it wont cause founder, thats just the diet that the poor girlie had to survive on.  I would question your vets diagnosis on mud founder...it does not exist, Im training as a vet at the moment and I have gone through everything just to be sure, and 100% there is no such thing as mud founder.

I hope you have a lot of luck with her, she is such a very pretty mare, and very lucky to have found a caring owner.

Sharon

I think that could have been it.

I just know that she was stuck out in a pasture with a lot of weeds before the place we got her from rescued her. The guy had turned into a drug addict, so they legally seized her. It was their second time to have her since they pulled her off of the meat truck as a two-three year old before she was even broke to ride. This is probably the easiest her life has ever been and we have no plans to sell her, so hopefully she'll be a happy horse from now on.