New Vocations Receives TCA, Blue Horse Charities Grants
The grants will aid New Vocations’ efforts to rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome retired Thoroughbreds.
The grants will aid New Vocations’ efforts to rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome retired Thoroughbreds.
The workshop participants will brainstorm strategies for increasing animal comfort at one adoption facility.
New rules regarding prohibited practices and reporting cases of equine collapse were approved.
TCA has granted $7,175 to Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center to support scholarship and hospital needs.

Researchers studied whether speaking in a soothing tone has a beneficial impact on the horse.
The online tool assesses and calculates colic risk while providing useful feedback on management practices.
The online tool assesses and calculates colic risk while providing useful feedback on management practices through a series of questions in 10 categories.

When the whip was used, the horse was less likely to achieve a jumping round with no faults.

A monument to Staff Sgt. Reckless was dedicated July 26 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
The help horse owners more precisely plan hay purchases and evaluate horses’ body weight.
Infectious disease researchers can submit proposals for an equine research award program, sponsored by BIVI.

Three affected horses at OSU have been placed in isolation and are being treated.
A horse residing on the same property died due to hendra virus earlier this month.
The schedule is subject to change due to drought that is limiting animals’ water and forage resources.
A large mosquito population elevates the need for horse owners to vaccinate their animals against EEE and WNV.
Cyril R. Clarke, BVSc, MS, PhD. Dipl. ACVCP, will become dean of the RCVM on Oct. 1.
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