
Recognizing Signs of Equine Abuse: The Vet’s Role
Equine practitioners must be familiar with the signs of abuse, its various forms, and their role in preventing it.

Equine practitioners must be familiar with the signs of abuse, its various forms, and their role in preventing it.

Two horses from one barn at Turfway and one horse at Keeneland have tested positive for EHV-1.
Kenton Morgan, DVM, Dipl. ACT; Joe Lyman, DVM, MS; and Rusty Ford will each present on different aspects of EHV-1.

Of the 516 respondents, 302 (59%) said they have taken their horse to a university veterinary teaching hospital.
Penny Gingerich has been charged with 64 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Brandon Mitchell will spend a decade in prison after pleading guilty to shooting and killing a horse last year.
Law enforcement authorities seized 63 horses from a property in Penrose last week.

A Thoroughbred filly is isolated at a private farm while one barn at the Kentucky track is currently quarantined.
TIP will offer awards and classes for Thoroughbreds at more than 1,000 shows in 42 states and six Canadian provinces.
Jim Heird, MS, PhD, is the coordinator and executive professor of the Texas A&M University Equine Initiative.
The FEI Tribunal has suspended an Indian veterinarian in connection with a 2012 case involving an endurance horse.
A man was charged with animal cruelty in connection to riding the underweight horse from South Carolina to Florida.

The quarantine will phase out starting with the 42 barns where horses never showed clinical signs of disease.
The Arabian Horse Foundation is funding research on juvenile idiopathic epilepsy and occipitoatlantoaxial malformation.

The bill is the latest attempt to outlaw the purchase and transport of U.S. horses for slaughter.
The legal team for FAST is preparing a response to the new rule which bans the use of action devices and pads or stacks.
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