A 3-year-old pony named Socks is recovering from a seven-inch long knife wound to his chest, according to a report by the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette’s online edition. Surgery was performed on the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 16th, after Mark Devonport found his stepson’s pony untied and injured in the field on the South Bank estate in the United Kingdom.

“I was shocked by what I saw,” Devonport told the Evening Gazette. “His chest was wide open; it was horrible. “I could see the muscle in his leg through the wound, it was so deep

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