Cracker Jack

Everyone fell in love with the little miniature horse that arrived at the sanctuary in November 2006. At 3 years old, he was still just a baby and had been left in a pasture with no care causing him to become overweight and to founder in all four hooves. For 8 months we rallied to save him. He was placed on a diet, and he received corrective trimming to his hooves every four weeks. Cracker Jack lost weight and was now running and playing in the pasture. Then he went to a foster home.

Cracker Jack returned to the sanctuary in April 2009. He was 75-100 lbs overweight, he could barely walk, he laid down almost 24 hours a day ,and he had refoundered in all four hooves. His coffin bone was now straight up and down and there is some remodeling of the bone. His situation was dire. If his coffin bone were to rotate only another degree or two, we would lose him.

Cracker Jack is once again on a diet and is receiving corrective trimming. After only a few months at the sanctuary, he lost weight and was up walking again. . Every morning he follows his friends Popcorn and Sweet Pea from the pony barn out to the pond where they spend the day grazing.

Cracker Jack is now behaving like the young horse he is. He will run and buck and play with the other mini, Jelly Bean, and will pin his little ears at the big horses if they attempt to encroach up his hay bale.