That’s one potential solution for tailless Soren that his rescuers and owners have been pondering.

The 2011 movie “Dolphin Tale” chronicled the story of Winter, a bottlenose dolphin who received an artificial tail after losing her own in a crab trap off the Florida coast.

But other animals have received prosthetic devices, too, like a pony that Brenda Gordon of Pack ‘N Pounce Animal Rescue discovered online who was fitted with an artificial leg.

“Wow, if they can make a prosthetic leg, why wouldn’t they be able to make a prosthetic tail?” says Gordon, whose Ogden group rescued Soren in 2011.

Gordon and Soren’s owners, Jason and Becky Cousineau of Clearfield, are investigating options that might help Soren swat away flies or other insects during the summer.

“Without a tail, it’s hard to be a horse,” says Gordon.

Hair extensions — often used to make show horses’ tails look fuller — might be another possibility, although Gordon says the stub of Soren’s tail, at less than 3 inches long, may be too short for anything to be attached to it.

The stump also has limited movement, says Becky Cousineau, so “he won’t have any swish action … but he’ll have some decency.”

From what she’s read about movable human prosthetics connected to nerve endings, Becky Cousineau says she isn’t sure the technology is out there yet to accommodate a horse.

However, an alligator — just call him Mr. Stubbs — made headlines in March when he was outfitted with a tail by a Phoenix orthopedic company.

“It’s the first (animal) prosthetic we’ve done,” says Allison Vasconcellos, senior director of marketing at the Center for Orthopedic Research and Education Institute, in a phone interview.

A herpetological society approached researchers at the institute about the prosthetic for Mr. Stubbs, whose own tail was likely bitten off by another alligator. The new artificial device took more than a year to create.

The institute would be willing to talk to Soren’s owners about his particular case, Vasconcellos says. After all, the company’s mission “to keep life in motion” doesn’t apply solely to humans, she says.

“Mr. Stubbs, he had difficulty swimming, he had difficulty walking and if we can do anything to improve his quality of life, we will,” Vasconcellos says.

In Denver, OrthoPets makes more than 160 prosthetic and orthotic devices for animals each month, most of them dogs, says president Amy Kaufmann. What started as a hobby 10 years ago for Kaufmann and her husband has grown into an accredited veterinary clinic with offices around the world.

“We as humans are demanding our furry children are getting the same sort of viable options that are there for us,” Kaufmann says in a phone interview.

One of the company’s recent cases is a Park City Rottweiler named Nena who has a new front leg courtesy of the program. The company has also designed prosthetics for llamas, alpacas, goats, deer and a baby orangutan.

Although OrthoPets has made artificial limbs for horses, the company has never been approached about an equine tail — but “we’re always willing to try,” Kaufmann says.

Potential options would be based, in part, on how much tail remains, she says, just as attaching an artificial limb requires some residual limb.

Becky Cousineau says they are open to suggestions for Soren, although the cost of some options may be prohibitive.

But Gordon adds, “There’s going to be somebody out there that’s got a good idea.”

If you have suggestions for how to help Soren, contact Pack ‘N Pounce at 801-710-6440 or 801-317-2969.