I am so sorry for you, but happy that Zeke is in your hands and not someone else's. You made a very compassionate decision that many would not have made.
Did the vet tell you what could cause early ringbone? (oh no something else for me to worry about.......)
Lee ".......and God sought to bestow upon man a supreme mark of his blessing. God created the horse. The horse could run faster than the deer, jump higher than the goat, and endure longer than the wolf. Man, being encompassed by elements that sought to destroy him, would have been a slave, had the horse not made him king."
