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Brazos River Threatens More Texas Flooding

Residents of Weatherford, Texas, who had gone back home after one evacuation kept watch Sunday on the Brazos River, which was rising again as flood gates were opened at overloaded upstream reservoirs.


The Brazos was expected to swell bac

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West Nile Virus Showing Up Across the Country

With some areas of the country having excess rainfall, and many parts moving into prime West Nile virus season, many government officials are warning humans to take precautions against the deadly disease.


West Nile virus cases in humans

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Recuperating Back Muscles

My 17-year-old Half-Arabian gelding underwent colic surgery, recovered well, but his back has dropped.

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Potomac Horse Fever: Cause and Treatment

Potomac horse fever (PHF) is a disease that affects horses during warm weather months, occasionally causing outbreaks of diarrheal illness in horses that are kept near rivers, streams, or in irrigated pastures.

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Positive Reinforcement

Can you explain the concept of positive reinforcement training? What exactly does it mean? I was recently in New Zealand, where I was with a group that seems “converted” to what they call “all-positive training.” It sounds like good old-fashioned

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Research… Missing Dollars

Leaders in veterinary research and the equine industry should develop policy initiatives that recognize needed changes in the research landscape. Equine medicine remains grossly underfunded. As companion animals, horses receive few government

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Understanding Horses Part 7: Yielding to Pressure

I’m going to start discussing ground manners by talking about a 2-year-old colt from Arkansas who hadn’t been handled much. He wasn’t mean, he was just uneducated.

I use a rope halter to give me a little more leverage and “bite” if the horse

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Beyond the Surface: Imaging Referral Practices

He’s been poked and prodded, trotted in straight lines and flexed, hoof-tested and blocked, and yet there’s nothing standing out in these examinations or on his X rays that would explain your horse’s intermittent lameness. There are no obvious

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Slimming Down

Couple consistent exercise with controlled calorie intake to promote weight loss in overweight horses.

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Sort-of Pensions for U.S. Forestry Pack Animals

U.S. Forest Service pack animals that have outlived their usefulness in the backcountry are finding the good life in the pastures and back 40s of some north-central Montana ranches and hobby farms.


Horses and mules that once hauled

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Woodlands Hustling to Open Slots, Casino

The Woodlands dog- and horse-racing track in Kansas plans to open a temporary casino with as many as 800 slot machines by February, while building a $40 million to $50 million permanent casino and restaurant, its operators said this

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Lessons Learned, Again

Sometimes we need to hear the same things again in order to learn them. Or maybe it’s not the learning, but the applying what we’ve learned. I had to call Dr. Andy Anderson after reading his column this month and put his lessons into practice at

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Thirst for Knowledge

Horse people are always searching for new ways to learn about their passion: the horse. Perhaps it is because our relationship with the horse is just that–a passion–that we are continually looking for ways to expand our knowledge base. It can be

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