For the Welfare of the Horse
As the AAEP Convention wraps up its final days, each year there’s the big banquet celebration that generates money for the AAEP Foundation. For nearly two decades, the foundation has been dedicated to...
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by Nancy | Dec 11, 2013
As the AAEP Convention wraps up its final days, each year there’s the big banquet celebration that generates money for the AAEP Foundation. For nearly two decades, the foundation has been dedicated to...
Read Moreby Nancy | Dec 10, 2013
“I feel like I’ve got an ice pick digging into my gut,” is what I heard through the earpiece of my phone. Then, a pregnant silence. “Excuse me?” I stammered in reply. This is not the kind of...
Read Moreby Erin | Dec 10, 2013
I have been attending AAEP Conventions since I was a sophomore in veterinary school. I have found that when I arrive in the airport, it is easy to pick out the equine practitioner at the luggage return. But some...
Read Moreby Nancy | Dec 10, 2013
The first sentence out of keynote speaker Buck Brannaman’s mouth was, “Being a horse vet is a dangerous job.” Well, we in the room are well aware of that! He asked how many people in the room–this is an...
Read Moreby Nancy | Dec 9, 2013
What do you think when you hear that 80 million baby boomers reach the age of 65 every day? Wow. That’s quite a number. But when you consider that these are the very same people who currently carry the horse industry...
Read Moreby Erin | Dec 8, 2013
Every year the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) puts on a great educational convention in December. The education the attendees receive is by far the best in equine veterinary medicine. It is...
Read Moreby Nancy | Dec 7, 2013
My grandmother always thought there was something wrong with the pre-teen me as I raced around the house with hands held in front like I was holding reins and the rounded part of a pretzel lodged in my mouth like a bit, while I...
Read Moreby Christy | Dec 13, 2012
As we were driving home last week from Anaheim, Calif., I laid out my writing schedule for the next month to my husband. When I got to, “And I need to write one more blog post next week to summarize the convention,”...
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