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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…

2 years 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 years ago

Vet Adventures: Taking in Olaf

Dr. Diehl describes in her Vet Adventures column what happens next in life to a gray horse with a serious…

3 years ago

Vet Adventures: Coming Up Roses After Broodmare Difficulties

She’s pregnant,” I called triumphantly over my shoulder to my technician. She was writing down notes for me in my…

3 years ago

Vet Adventures: Meeting Kidd

The search for a perfect new horse for Dr. Diehl’s daughter comes to a conclusion. My family piled into the…

4 years ago

Vet Adventures: A Mystery Disease

I pulled up to a large barn and there was Hans, a large draft-cross gelding, milling sadly around a hay…

4 years ago