Everyone has faced difficult situations in life where things just seemed to go wrong and we thought we couldn’t make it. Horses are no different from humans when it comes to this point, they have to deal and sort out all their problems just like humans. The story shown below is an inspirational and extraordinary story that proves to us that when a human and his horse join their forces, nothing is impossible. It all begins when a teenage girl, 13, named Morgan Wagner went to pick out one horse from her family’s horse herd. The horse she was going to choose would play an important part in her life so she had to choose carefully.

Morgan made her choice immediately, she chose Endo who at that time was only a few months old. She explained her decision by saying that since she first laid eyes on him she understood that he had a different presence from others and had a strong personality who stood out from the rest. We must add that Morgan had no experience at all when it comes to horses, she was totally self-taught and learned how to take care of one through trial and error.  This method may have truly helped the pair in some ways because it is the same technique she used so efficiently when Endo learned the tragic fact that he had to remove his eyes.

When Endo was 8 years old, Morgan saw that Endo wasn’t feeling as well as before and his eyes had started to squint a lot. During summertime, they were weepy, almost all the time, and it looked like he was going through so much pain. Of course, Morgan could tell that something was wrong so she decided to reach out to the vet and find out what was really happening to her beautiful horse. The vet gave her the terrible news, he was diagnosed with Equine Recurrent Uveitis, glaucoma and cataracts. From that moment Morgan did everything she could for Endo: tried to reduce Endo’s painful flare-ups by reducing dust and other eye soreness in his environment.

She thought it was best if she only set him outside during the night and gave him daily oral anti-inflammatory medicine. The vet was also out to see Endo many times a month so that she could treat him with prescribed eye ointment and stronger oral medicine, but sadly, nothing seemed to help. Endo’s eyes grew more and more irritated and painful.  Despite all the veterinary treatments tried, Endo’s right eye basically ruptured, and he was in an enormous amount of pain. He had quit eating because it hurt so badly to chew, and the medicine he was taking to try to lessen the pain and inflammation affected his taste.

Morgan made the choice to remove Endo’s right eye when the vet said the eye wasn’t capable of being saved and started. Right after surgery, Endo was very scared and on the first night after the operation, Morgan saw him shaking in his stall when she went to check on him. She decided to stay with him that night, and her presence appeared to calm Endo. At that time, the vet had prescribed Endo for more than 5 years and understood that no matter what was going to happen, Morgan would take the best care of Endo.

After Endo’s worsening conditioned required the first eye to be removed, the vet’s diagnosis wasn’t good at all.  As the veterinarian had feared, the second eye was removed about 6 months later. Endo healed much more quickly and with more courage than he had after his first surgery. Morgan believes that all the time she filled with him, supporting him learn to gain self-confidence in sensing his surroundings without visual signs likely helped ease the transition into sightlessness. If you think that his condition stopped him from living his life, you are totally wrong.

Endo has the ability to do everything just like a sighted horse can do. He is able to race, trail ride, travel, jump and participates in any other new activity that is available for him. He is a huge crowd favorite at Expos, where he has displayed his intelligence, and trainability in a variety of shows and events all across the United States and Canada. Endo teaches us all a valuable message that where there’s a will there’s also a way. He and Morgan are one of the best examples we should follow in our life. Throughout the article, we have put photos and videos during various periods of his life. We invite you to watch them and also learn from them.