Kix
Update, February 2024:
Kix’s longtime sanctuary foster/adopter is moving cross-country in spring 2024. Kix will be returning to a foster farm for re-intake and evaluation. We may keep him in sanctuary or we may allow him to be adopted as a companion to a situation that fits his personality at that time.
Kix is an AQHA registered gelding who had one owner his entire life. When his owner was diagnosed with a terminal illness, his family reached out and asked for help. Kix was trained as a young horse, but had been an 1100 pound pet for the last decade, giving young kids lead-around rides but not being ridden independently.
We adopted him to a therapy program in August, 2020, but while he made an ideal horse for interactions with patients, he failed to thrive in a herd of geldings in his new home. He also developed some lameness in his right front which was diagnosed as laminitis. He was treated for the laminitis and came back to Safe Harbor as his adopters wanted the best for him and were worried at his apparent depression.
Kix received his annual vetting in December, 2023, and is current on vaccinations/Coggins/wellness checks. He has been pasture sound and easily maintained with another gelding of similar age, metabolism and personality for the past two years.