Einstein is a beautiful horse who is considered the world’s smallest stallion! He was born on April 22, 2010, and he weighed only 6 pounds, the smallest horse ever born. Now he is fully grown and he’s about 2 feet tall and 80 pounds – the size of a Golden Retriever.
His parents were normal-sized champion miniature horses. His mother is 32 inches tall whilst his dad sizes 30 inches. Even though you may have seen Einstein before, you might not know that he underwent a spinal cord injury when he was only 2 months old.
He was sent to Cornell University in New York, where he set another world record as the only horse in the world ever operated on by a canine neurosurgeon. Einstein was so little that the equine surgeon was unable to perform the operation.
The canine surgeon who did the life-saving operation on Einstein had written books on spinal surgery on dogs as small as Pomeranians and Chihuahuas bur Einstein was considered large comparing to them. After 8 exhausting hours of surgery, 5 screws and 7 pins held Einy’s spine together.
He stood in the intensive care unit the morning after the surgery and two months after that. As soon as he got out, he danced on the stage of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago. Today he runs and plays just like a normal horse and most of the people have no idea he maintained any injury at all. We will forever be grateful to the astonishing minds at Cornell that saved the little horse’s life.