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Vet Adventures: Personal Boundaries

A veterinary colleague on social media recently posted a meme and a long, frustrated rant that made me simultaneously laugh…

1 year ago


Vet Adventures: A Unique Equine Companion

I sighed as I watched Gander growing smaller in the distance, tail flying and dust clouds rising behind him as…

1 year ago

Vet Adventures: Balancing Mom Life

I was standing near the arena gate with my daughter, Morgan, who was waiting her turn to show Kevin, our…

1 year ago

Vet Adventures: Gut Feeling

Cimarron, a stallion, lay quietly on his side in the snow as I walked up to his pen. He stretched…

1 year ago

Vet Adventures: An Unlikely Encounter

I was working my dental float gently into my patient’s mouth when my phone buzzed for the umpteenth time. I…

1 year ago

Vet Adventures: Surviving Equine Botulism

Equine botulism toxicity was a grim diagnosis. Cathy and I tried to reassure each other as the expensive antitoxin was…

2 years ago

Growing Pains for a Pregnant Pony

My mentor and friend Dr. George Platt had been an equine vet for 43 years. I was in my third…

2 years ago

Vet Adventures: As Destiny Would Have It

When a vet goes on a call about a difficult horse, the volatile mare takes charge, at least until gravity…

2 years ago

Podcast Episode #8: Vet Adventures and Your Winter Reading List for December 23, 2021 from Title Sponsor Straight Arrow Products

In the eighth episode of The Horse Illustrated Episode of Horses in the Morning, sponsored by Title Sponsor Straight Arrow…

2 years ago

Vet Adventures: Endless Emergency Calls

Emergencies are a normal way of life for a mobile equine vet, but after 20 years of getting yanked away…

2 years ago