Just as with humans, there are risks when a horse goes under general anesthesia. Fortunately, this is where some of the greatest advances in equine surgery have been in the past decade.
Every surgery case is different, but the...
America's growing obesity problem has alarmed physicians and public health officials, and veterinarians have recently focused attention on fat dogs and cats. Now, a team of researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of...
Below is a list of horse rescue facilities and groups around the U.S. and Canada. Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement by horseillustrated.com or Horse Illustrated. Before contributing to or adopting from any rescue group, be sure...
There are only a few diseases that I really hate. Lymphosarcoma is one of them. This disease is a cancer of the lymph tissue. Thankfully horses don’t get cancer often, but when they do it’s usually deadly and it’s usually...
Summer is the time to get your horse in peak condition; take some extra long rides and enjoy the rays. But as temperatures rise, so do the risks of your horse experiencing heat stroke, dehydration and other health problems...
Protect yourself and your horse and ICE your cell phone. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. ICE is an international designation that emergency medical technicians and emergency responders are trained to look for by searching the Contacts section...
The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the University of California, Davis, offers DNA testing for several inherited equine diseases. Before breeding a horse, it’s advisable to have it tested for the possibility that it can pass on an inherited disease....
When I started riding at age 11, (I'm 52 now), I did not wear a helmet. I stopped riding to go to college. After 20 years, I started training a horse for a friend and never gave helmets a...
Q. What are the potential effects of raising a young horse in a stall versus letting him grow up on acreage?A. As a precocious animal, a young horse is ready to run within hours of birth. Continual movement and...
When a horse won’t tolerate having his foot picked up, it’s not some quirky behavioral issue that you should learn to live with. For the horse’s own safety and his general well being, and the sanity of your farrier,...
