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Rabies Vaccine Drop to Include 44 Texas Counties

The Associated Press January 2, 2008

Bait laced with rabies vaccine will be dropped from airplanes in 44 Texas counties in an effort targeting coyotes and gray foxes.

The Texas Department of State Health Services annual oral rabies vaccination drop begins Jan. 6 from the Zapat

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World Equestrian Games 2010: Host City Begins Countdown

The Horse Staff January 2, 2008

The city of Lexington, Ky., began its official countdown to the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games on Dec. 29–1,000 days before the Games will debut in the United States.

Official countdown clocks were unveiled during halftime of the

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Readers Respond: Equine Resolutions

Erin Ryder January 2, 2008

More than 700 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Do you have any equine-related New Year’s resolutions?”


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2007: Quite a Year in Equine Health

The Horse Staff January 1, 2008

What a year it was! Researchers unlocked the secrets of the equine genome, an outbreak of equine influenza stopped Australia’s horse industry in its tracks, state actions resulted in the closure of U.S. horse slaughter plants

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25 Years of Better Horse Care: 1983-2008

Kimberly S. Brown January 1, 2008

As a new year begins, The Horse celebrates 25 years of reporting the latest in horse care. This publication began in 1983 as Modern Horse Breeding. In March of 1995 the name was changed to the current title to fit the expanded coverag

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Drug-Resistant Bugs

J. Scott Weese, DVM, DVSc, Dipl. ACVIM January 1, 2008

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a multidrug-resistant bacterium that has received ample attention in the press lately. Much concern has been expressed because of the tremendous increase in human infections, including

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25 Years of Medicine

Harry Werner, VMD January 1, 2008

Reflecting upon the last 25 years in equine veterinary medicine, it is difficult to limit the list of changes to a single page. Since The Horse has done an excellent job of educating horse owners about diagnostic and therapeutic advances in

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Hair Club for Horses?

Susan L. White, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM January 1, 2008

My 9-year-old Quarter Horse gelding is losing his hair, and it’s not just shedding?he has bare spots of skin.

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Crossing Bridges

Sue McDonnell, PhD, Certified AAB January 1, 2008

My horse refuses to cross a wooden bridge. I walked him across plywood for about three days and had no trouble.

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Bad-Asses

Sue McDonnell, PhD, Certified AAB January 1, 2008

Why do mules and donkeys have heightened “territorial” or protective instincts when compared to horses?

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Hernias Explained

Nancy S. Loving, DVM January 1, 2008

Bulges in the body wall could mean internal organs are out of place.

A hernia is any rent or tear in the body wall that allows internal organs to push through into undesirable places. Any age or breed of horse can

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Caslick’s Operation: Problem Barrier

Mina C.G. Davies Morel, BSc, PhD January 1, 2008

Infertility is a major problem in some broodmares. A large incidence of infertility is seen in valuable, intensively bred mares such as racehorses and performance mares, and significant amounts of money and time are devoted to dealing with the

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Have We Learned?

Kimberly S. Brown January 1, 2008



How can we apply what we know today to make the lives of horses better in the next 25 years?


There’s always more to learn, but sometimes we forget to give ourselves credit for what we

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