Poptart A Rescue Pony

Poptart is a 52'' bay pony mare who came to me in April of this year. She had been used on pony ride for 3 years and apparently during those 3 years, never fed. She came to me a 1 on the body score chart . She was so pitiful that when laying down she looked like a wooly lil buffalo. The lady I bought her from wanted 300.00 for her and even though she was far from worth it I forked over the cash and loaded the lil snot (at that point called Lacey) in a trailer and took her home. She had a spark in her eyes that said "I'm a fighter and when I get better I PROMISE you I'll be a dang good pony" . That spark and the spunk she showed in the followinf days earned her the name of Poptart. She's be down in the pasture snoozing when I'd go to feed the other horses and I'd shake a bucket of feed and she's pop right up off the ground and beat he big horses to the fence. I'd whistle if they were in the back and she's always be the first one down, never failed. Such spunk. Because I didn't know the Tart's history well I started her out by worming her with Safeguard and then at my vet's recomendation worming her with an additional dose 2 weeks later. We started her off on 2 cups of 10% Supreme Co-Op horse feed twice a day until she had gotten used to eating grain again. All the free choice hay she could get and thanks to my job position a vendor gave me a free 22# tub of high fat supplement called Penwoods Body Builder. She soon was putting on weight and living up to the promise that showed in her eyes. Poptart still has a long way to go to being 100% healthy and fat. As it is now she's probably at about a 3 almost a 4 with 5 being the ideal scale. What irks me about the whole thing is the people who owned her continued to work her on the pony rides even in the condition she wa sin. She has scarring over her back where each vertabrae is from sores caused by the pressure of a saddle and rider on her back when she was literally a walking skeleton. How can someone claim to love their animals and yet allow them to slowly starve to death? Whats really sad is this woman had about 20 other ponies in the same lot at the Tart and ALL of them looked that way, one of them she wnated 800 bucks for..... I hope there have been others that have gone to her and escued some of these ponies. If I can figure out how I'll up[load before and after pictures of Poptart.