Being in vet school is crazy enough without cameras following you around. Morgan Taylor was one of the vet students at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine selected to be on Animal Planet’s show, “Life at Vet...
In order to embrace the horse show experience fully, one rider develops a list of her reasons for showing.My horse show career began with a bang. I won my very first hunt-seat equitation class, which just so happened to...
The call was for a week-old mini donkey foal that the owner insisted was not passing manure. I was charmed by the fuzzy little Ewok-looking creature with tremendously long ears. He barely came up to my knee and busily...
Learn how this equestrian horse show braider learned to balance the time required to braid each horse at the shows with the physical demands of competing.Horse shows are just that: putting on a show. And grooming is an integral...
Make sure you are eating right a horse shows.
Follow this guide for a healthy and supportive diet to keep you going at horse shows!Sometimes the runaround of a horse show doesn’t leave much time to think. You have to...
Read how Courtney S. Diehl, DVM, helped a horse with a hamstring laceration 30 miles into the backcountry, accessible only by rough roads.I was somewhere in the wilderness, headed to my last call of the day. I was exhausted...
It’s a universally acknowledged truth that equine-obsessed children are jealous of kids born into horses: trainers’ children; children of famous riders; royalty. My parents were decidedly non-horse people, and it’s still a mystery how they produced not one, but...
As a horse rider, you could be at a high risk of getting sunburn, read these tips by Tori English to learn how to prevent sunburn and stay safe in the sun.Growing up, that first sunburn ushered in summer....
Meet the author of Canterwood Crest, a popular horse book series written by Jess Burkhart as she talks about her job as an equestrian novelist.“There’s a whole other world out there waiting to be discovered in books,” says Jess...
Read this vet adventures emergency call and the importance of timing.I was at home on a Sunday morning with my two young daughters when my phone rang.“Dr. Diehl, this is Merrie over at Friendly Farms. I’ve got a mare...
