The BUZZ Started New Years Day!

It was New Years Day 2017 and the phone rings. A man tells me his pony in injured and he has no money for veterinary care. He said he thinks it was attacked by a dog...on his penis and it's all bloody. So it's New Years Day, and it's a rescue! 

Buzz 

I hooked up the trailer and drove to Gainesville to get the little guy and found him tied to a post, standing politely. He was cute and looked well mannered. Great first impression until I opened the truck door and the smell of death and rot overtook my thoughts. I looked at the enormous swelling and my heart just broke. It looked like squamous cell carcinoma. I am not a vet by any means but having done rescue so long, I have seen so much cancer left with no medical care. People are irresponsible all too often. 

Buzz and Tom

Buzz came to the rescue and was an immediate favorite. He was very underweight and very sweet. Tom Scott and many others decided to spoil him and give him lots of love. We needed to get him healthier before he had surgery. His blood work was not very good but we did our best in the few days we had him before we took him the the University of TN for surgery. The cancer couldn't wait as it is so aggressive. 

Once they did the blood work at UT, they had to change their plan of how to operate since he

Buzz at University Of Tennessee

still wasn't healthy enough to go under anesthesia. They had to do a local and did remove most of the area around the cancer. They hoped they removed everything with cancer and he has been doing well. By March, he was ready, recovered and healthy enough to place him up for adoption. He became a happy pony for a happy little girl who adores him. They live in North Georgia and have been enjoying life together everyday. 

Suddenly, Buzz seems to be not his happy self. Of course, everyone's first thought is that horrible cancer, has it returned? The family's veterinarian has examined him and will contact the surgeon at UT.

Hopefully, after some blood work is completed, we can all feel better when they say it's a virus or something curable. Buzz deserved to live a long happy life after all the suffering he went through.

Cancer has become so much more prevalent in horses over the past 15 years or so. We have has so many cases we took in, I lost count. 90% were happy endings and the cancer stayed away. Let's hope this is true for Buzz.


Keep Buzz and his humans in your thoughts and prayers. 

Thank you for your continued support and your compassion. 

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