How very appropriate. We just lost one of our rescues a few months back. My son named her Virginia Kate. We called her Katie. We gave her about one and a half good years. She was a sad sight with EPM, messed up knees, halter grown in her poll and nose, and emaciated. She was well over 30. We cured the EPM, got her fatten up but the neuro damage and her age just worked equally hard against us. We had made a sling for her so that when she went down, we could pick her up with the tractor. She would stay up for months at time but in the end she was going down several times a day. Bless her heart she would just wait there for us to pick her back up. Finally, she went down for the last time. It was a very sad day for us but Dr. Bennidict agreed that it was time.
We will always miss our little fiesty girl.