We often read or watch stories of a person donating blood or a vital organ to a patient in life-threatening need. But it’s not often we hear about the same gift being given between equines, which was the case recently in England at the Redwings Horse Sanctuary.
The situation arose when one of the sanctuary’s horses, a small piebald mare named Coral, who was a rescue case, was losing too much weight and staff also found redworm larvae in her manure. According to the story on the Redwings website, Coral “went downhill quickly.”
Coral, feeling poorly before the transfusion.
“Coral was losing protein from her intestines. It was a critical situation, and we could have lost her,” says Redwings Veterinary Surgeon Dawn Trayhorn.