Horse abandoned, covered in used motor oil

The patches of missing hair don't even begin to tell the story of what this horse has been through

By: WSLS-TV Staff Reports | WSLS
Published: May 13, 2008

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The patches of missing hair don't even begin to tell the story of what this horse has been through.
"All her hair had fallen out. It was just bare skin," Patricia Muncy with the Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue said.
Muncy says when April first came to the Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue, she had a handful of problems.
"She's malnourished, her teeth are horrible, her hooves need care, she has a few abscesses that have blown out that needed to be treated."
Worst of all, someone had covered the horse’s entire coat with used motor oil and left her in the Sinking Creek area of Fincastle.
"We could only think they were trying to treat her for lice or rain rot she had gotten," she said. "It's not something we recommend now.”
It took a while to get all of it out of her system.
“For three days she was passing motor oil through her bowel movements."
After losing 90 percent of her coat, it is starting to grow back and she looks a lot healthier.
"She's gained almost about 70 pounds already."