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The Story of our ~Wings~ (aka Punkin Pie) 1981 Saddlebred It was a pleasure to have Wings part of our family for 13 years. He was taken too soon, and will be sorely missed! Be sure to read how we lost Wings- especially if you own an older horse! Story updated May, 3 2007! This black cloud has a silver lining- Praise God! Please note that as of 1/09 we wormed with a different brand of All-In-One wormer. Satin and Wings, both young, both wormed every two months with rotating wormers, showed mild colic symptoms. They both pulled through fine, but we will never use an All-In-One wormer again. I was leasing a big Arab gelding that both my Dad and farrier, John, hated. He seemed to have something against men. John told me that he had just picked up a Saddlebred, and I should come look at him. He showed me his papers, which at the time didn't say anything to me. Who was Wing Commander anyway? At that time, I had never seen a Saddlebred before. I didn't realize that one of my horse figurines that I had bought when I was a little kid, was a Saddlebred. Or the picture of the beautiful black horse I'd been drooling over since I was a kid was also a Saddlebred. When I first went to see Wings, he was in pretty bad shape. John had bought him from a place up on Vashon Island. Poor Wings was in knee deep mud, and very underweight when John took him home. He was trying to get some weight on Wings to resell. I sure wish I would've taken a picture of him in this shape- just to remember how far he came. John wasn't sure if there was something wrong with Wings' legs, as they looked very big/swollen. So Wings' legs were shaved about knee/hock up. His legs were fine, he just had quite the hairy winter coat. They also shaved his blaze which, for some reason, fluffed out farther than his regular coat. So here was Wings, skin, bones, hair, and a crazy hair cut.

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