When a pain medication or strategy is no longer providing a senior horse with relief, the kindest option might be euthanasia.
Learn about the AAEP’s euthanasia guidelines and how to cope with the loss of an equine partner.
Aging mules and donkeys need to be managed just as carefully as horses. Here’s what you need to know.
Learn how to assess your senior horse’s quality of life and know when it’s time to let go.
Researchers explored the bonds people have with their horses and how that affects care, ownership change, and end-of-life decisions.
A recent study suggests composting might be a feasible and environmentally friendly way to manage carcasses of horses euthanized using sodium pentobarbital. Further investigation is needed, the researchers say.
The chief revision: addition of intrathecal lidocaine hydrochloride 2% with the horse in a surgical plane of general anesthesia.
As restrictions on disposing horses euthanized with pentobarbital tighten, veterinarians look for safe and effective alternative methods for euthanasia.
Dr. Amanda Adams of the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, describes her senior horse research, which focuses on EMS, PPID, and immune system health.
U.K. researchers ranked welfare issues affecting the larger equine population as well as individual horses. This is what they found.
Disposing of a horse’s body is becoming more challenging with tightening burial and landfill regulations and fewer rendering plants. Learn about an alternative solution.
While it can be unsettling to think about all the possible scenarios, planning before colic happens could save your horse’s life.
In some scenarios, such as when working in developing countries, veterinarians might not have access to powerful drugs or firearms to euthanize horses, one veterinarian says.
Plan ahead when it comes to making end-of-life decisions for your horse.
Survey respondents said a geriatric horse’s ability to lead a comfortable life ranked highest in their veterinary care decisions, and many owners said they’d made numerous accommodations for their animals’ needs.
An owner describes how she made the difficult decision to euthanize her “heart horse” based on his quality of life.
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