The University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna has been conducting animal experiments with ponies for many years, but also with other animals such as cattle, llamas and pigs. This always in the name of progress for the veterinary medicine and without animal suffering, which is known from other attempts. The researches of the last years, in which also seven ponies participated, have brought about a further development of the techniques in the field of anesthesia - groundbreaking results, which can ultimately help all horses. Muck and his friends had now reached an age at which they were to be discarded from research. The veterinarian in charge wanted a safe place where they would be treated with love. So Johnny, Eliot, Muck, Pascha, Pauli, Piccolo and Shaggy came to Gut Aiderbichl.