“We put her in special shoes that look like high heels. “She couldn’t hold herself upright, and she was sinking in the back end,” Reed says. I on the other hand had watched more than enough porn to understand what a big dick actually looked like and measured myself enough to find where I fit in on. For almost all of our marriage, Bunni had never watched porn or played with a dildo either. She was back on campus in January to get fitted for special shoes to adjust her hind legs. We met and married young and on our wedding night, we were each other’s first and only lovers. Even the grouchiest couldn’t resist going into her stall.”īunny returned home with Smith to Blue Ridge Rescue in Blue Grass, Iowa, where she continues to recover. “It’s hard to describe,” Reed says, “but it was impossible not to go in there and bother her. Students got to calling it Bunny’s Clubhouse. “The repair we did is done on horses, but working on the ulna is something that’s done on dogs and cats,” Reed says.ĭuring the three-hour procedure, her right leg, the more severely deformed of the two, was fused together to create a peg leg held together by 12 screws.īunny spent 11 days recovering in Columbia in a pen built just for her. Working side by side with two other doctors and multiple students, Reed performed three surgeries to correct the bones in her legs. Shannon Reed sits with Bunny in her pen after surgery. “When I saw Bunny’s X-rays, I thought, ‘Wow, we have a lot of work to do,’ ” Reed recalls.
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More similar to a dog in size, the team worked together to find the best solution, settling on a hybrid of procedures typically reserved for canines and of those done in horses. Good if you want an easy job with little expected of you or if this is a first job. Smith left the clinic for lunch thinking there wasn’t any help for Bunny, but when she returned a few hours later, Reed, DVM ’03, had consulted with a team of surgeons, including hospital director David Wilson and small animal orthopedic vet Derek Fox, PhD ’04. “Instead of just being angled, they also rotated so the entire bottom of her legs turned outward.” “Normally, horses are born with their legs straight and their joints aligned to bear weight equally so every time they take a step there is a cushion,” says Reed, assistant teaching professor at the Equine Clinic in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine. Smith carted Bunny to Columbia in the back of her SUV in October 2012 to see what - if anything - Reed could do for her. “She had so much life for being this crippled tiny min Smith’s 7-year-old daughter suggested calling the bouncing beauty Bunny. “Bunny was not like any other horse i.”I’d ever met,” Smith remembers. The 22-inch-tall, 70-pound miniature horse was born with severely deformed legs.Ĭasey Smith, founder of a nonprofit shelter for neglected equines, brought Bunny to MU after rescuing the mini from a large-production breeding farm, more accurately called a mill, Smith says. When Shannon Reed first met Bunny, she wasn’t sure there was anything she could do. Before Bunny came to MU, she had severely deformed legs her front legs angled and rotated outward instead of aligning straight.