In the emergency tracheotomy, there is no time to explain the procedure or the need for it to the patient. The patient is placed on his or her back with face upward (supine), with a rolled-up towel between the shoulders.
13 June 2006. As of 7 July 2006, the record for the smallest living horse is Thumbelina, a miniature sorrel brown mare who measures 44.5 cm (17.5 in) to the withers and is owned by Kay and Paul Goessling (Both USA) who live on the Goose Creek Farm Inc, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Only horses that stayed small - no more than 34 inches by the time they were five years old - were allowed to be called miniatures. At first, any horse small enough could be registered as a miniature horse. But as more and more minis looked better and better, things changed.