Molly was stranded in the barn for weeks when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana in August 2005. She was rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled. A pit bull terrier on the farm attacked Molly, inflicting severe gnawing wounds on her right front leg. The severe wounds became heavily infected, entirely cutting off the blood flow to her right front hoof and causing the tissue to fail. Molly underwent an amputation in 2006 and lived with a prosth