A couple of weeks ago, the dentist payed a visit to the QUEST barn. Ania had to have a tooth pulled and several of the other horses had dental work done as well. The horses first needed to be sedated and then a contraption called a mouth gag is used to keep their mouth open while the dentist does her work. Most of the horses just got their teeth floated. Tooth floating is when the small points on the teeth are sanded down. All of the horses behaved really well!

    
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KHARIQ
Hi! My name is Courtni Hackett and I would like too tell you about my first horse khariq and how he helped us to start QUEST. Last summer my mom ran into Erin and she invited us Out to the barn to meet her pony foxy. On our trips out to the barn we would notice a very thin lonesome looking horse. One night the neighbor brought him over for us to see. He took his lips and wiggled the latch open to the feed room door . We gave him some oats and he hit the bottom of the feed bucket like a starved dog. All of the sudden it hit my mom he wasn’t just old he was being starving. After a while the owner said if we didn’t take him he was going to the slaughter house. So we took him, we called Dr. Robinson to set up a feeding schedule. We had his hooves trimmed and after a few weeks he started to put weight on. His eyes had the happy twinkle back in them ,he started cantering in pasture!! Not only did he become my horse he became QUEST first rescue!!! I would have never dreamed of having my own horse and getting khariq was a dream come true. He got up to full body weight and taught me how to be around horses . We celebrated his 29th birthday in February and on March 16th we lost him to colic.