ICU Special Report: Week 2

This is our second week of looking at the intensive care unit of Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. In the first photo, a foal with

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More About Dusty

I just discovered a cache of images of Dusty. Thought I’d share a couple. He really loves people. He’s one of those horses that has worked

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Bluecifer’s Steed

  That’s what some folks are calling the 32-foot-high rearing Blue Mustang sculpture outside the Denver International Airport. Created by New Mexico artist Luis JimŽnez,

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Intensive Care Unit

This is the first of four Mondays in which we look at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital’s intensive care unit. Foaling season has arrived, and

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Failure to Scoop

  Houston horse owner Ben McCleary received a traffic citation for littering earlier this week. But McCleary didn’t chuck something out the car window–no, the

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Slumhorse Millionaire

  Inspired by the recent Oscars, just a couple of the work-safe gems of YouTube (turn the volume down or use headphones if you’re in

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I’m Bringing Zebra Back

  (Them other boys don’t know how to act.) So she’s not a real Zebra. But when Maybelline, a Zebra statue at Albany’s All American

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FIRE!

The fires that have destroyed so much in Australia remind me that no one is immune to fire. If you have horses you usually have

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Feel the Love

  Despite their usefulness and the fact that people in many areas of the world depend on them for their very survival, donkeys have an

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"It’s a boy!"

Everyone said Ten Hail Marys was too old to having another baby. Her owner didn’t listen to them.  

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Spring Fever

  Within the office collection of blogs, there’s a gem called "Tracking Barbaro’s Brothers." This BloodHorse.com blog by coworker Amanda follows the progress of Barbaro’s

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Equasy? … Srsly?

Professor David Nutt, the UK’s chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was trying to make a point about the relative harms

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