Endo The Blind Horse Story

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Endo the blind horse story. He loves attention and knows applause means good boy. I m busy working on my blog posts. Endo s story this very special appaloosa gelding is completely blind having had to have both of his eyes removed several years ago for medical reasons. When endo was going blind morgan searched for a permanent companion for him so he would not be alone in his darkness.

Wagner has owned endo for his entire fifteen years and like many horses with appaloosa lineage endo suffered from recurrent uveitis or moon blindness as well as glaucoma and cataracts. Koin in the farmlands outside eugene lives a horse that sees the world a little differently than the rest of us. He s a 19 year old pony of the. He s still a hot horse despite the enucleation.

He competes trail rides travels jumps performs liberty work and participates in any other new experience that becomes available. He has a miniature called cinnamon as a companion in his stall. Rather than give up on him his owner rider trainer morgan wagner redoubled her efforts to help him live a normal life. Endo is able to do anything a sighted horse can do morgan says.

His eyes were swollen and painful and he gradually went blind. What can t a blind horse do. His name is endo the blind. Five years later endo leads a happy and fulfilling life despite his disability.

I first saw them in albany or at the northwest horse fair and expo. Endo is an appaloosa gelding who had his eyes removed because he suffered from equine recurrent uveitis also known as moon. Endo the blind eugene oregon. A young woman calmly cantering around a working equitation course on her totally eye less appaloosa it was simply unbelievable so after the demonstration i made my way to endo s stall and met his lifelong owner morgan wagner.