A Chilling Walk In San Francisco (blog)
A chilling look at the state of America as I saw it. I walked a mile from the 2018 AAEP meeting site seeing what we don't see on our farms. I was shoc…
Category: Veterinary Medicine General Thoughts
AMA February 16, 2023 – Rounds With Doc T
“Ask Me Anything” - The following questions were submitted (copied and pasted from the Q&A section in Zoom or from emails), along with any posted …
An Iconoclast In The Horse World
(Original post January 14th, 2021, updated April 22, 2023) It is the start of 2021, and the world is disrupted. Our lives are nothing like…
Can Horse Owners Believe The Horse Science? – Rounds With Doc T
From 2020 to 2022, we were asked to believe the science. The first question is this – What is science? Can it be fair? Can it be absolute? How is it…
Decay Of The Profession
An 80 year old client lost his mare because he could not get adequate veterinary care. The reasons are disturbing and reflect badly on this profession…
Disrupters
I discuss what an "altruistic disrupter" is and how they can benefit your horses in health and well being. While not easy for the horse industry, it i…
Equine Dentistry Seen Through 75,000 Floats – Rounds With Doc T
I have floated the teeth of horses since 1983, worked on over 75,000 horse mouths and still am floating teeth every day. I have some thoughts, and man…
Get Your Brain Right, Get Your Horse Right
"Cognitive Laziness" is how we interact with horses today. Through agenda driven medicine and marketing, I look at the collision of new and old.
Honesty – A True Story
When the words of this man I met settle into your consciousness you will either be shocked or say that this is the problem with the world (and our hor…
Horsemen, Surgeons And Equine Dentistry
Within veterinary medicine are recognized divisions (surgery, medicine, ambulatory) and within these are hidden divisions. Do these affect horse owner…
I Want To Do The Best For My Horses
Horse owners are experiencing an information overload. It is not only with our horses but with just about every subject of interest to us. In…
Podcast # 138 – Horses And Perception Management
This podcast provides two relatable examples of perception management in horse care: Is 24-hour access to hay good, and should you feed processed food…
Podcast # 139 – More New Vets But Less Horse Vets
Over the next ten years, thirteen new vet schools will be built and accredited by the AVMA to teach and add 55,000 more veterinarians to the existing …
Podcast # 140 – Integrity In Veterinary Medicine
Forgive me as I rant about veterinary care. This week, I experienced or heard of four events between veterinarians and their owners that have me askin…
Podcast # 141 – The Crisis In Veterinary Medicine Worsens
Three articles from the AVMA arrived in my inbox this week:
Gap shrinks between new graduate, overall veterinary salaries
Midlevel practitioner prop…
Podcast #009 – Why Horse Owners Need To Understand The Parachute Study
This was a parody published in a top medical journal to bring attention to the fact that there are few research papers published that we can believe. …
Podcast #018 – The Right To Prevent
As horse owners, we have a right to protect and to prevent injury and disease from happening to the horses under our care. However, owners are being b…
Podcast #023 – Houston We Have A Problem
The equine veterinary profession is at a breaking point. There is little incentive for developing new horse vets. The American Association of Equine P…
Podcast #028 – How Is What You’re Doing Working For Your Horses?
Horse owners want to do the best for their horses either because of the large investment in their purchase and training / showing or because they are …
Podcast #032 – The AAEP Discusses Laminitis In Horses
I review how insulin is involved in a response to nutrition as well as the roll of protein in the development of hooves. I believe that preventing lam…
Podcast #038 – Horses In Addition And Subtraction Of Science
Today’s podcast will look at the complexities of the art of scientific research and how it is being manipulated by marketing with the result not alw…
Podcast #040 – Keeping Equine Practitioners In Horse Practices
Horse owners are facing a shortage of equine veterinarians if they live any distance from horses living in a dense population. The cost of a veterinar…
Podcast #042 – A Review Of A Horse Magazine
I am on a path of revealing just how science works and why it is a well orchestrated drama to usually promote an agenda. I try not to be cynical or ev…
Podcast #049 – Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn?
Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn? Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World is what we do at The Horse’s Advocate. But what about us? How do we thrive in…
Podcast #050 – Horse Seminar Summaries
I attended 3 equine seminars all with veterinarians discussing different matters: 1) “How Horses Think” put on by Cornell University (not the vet …
Podcast #051 – Horse Owners Experiencing An Infodemic
This will be a podcast where I vent my frustration in my attempts to help horse owners help their horses thrive in a human world. All I try to do is g…
Podcast #053 – Horses And The Road Less Traveled
Feeding our horses as they have for the past 30 years is the “well-worn path.” Insulin resistance, Cushing’s Disease, suspensory ligament diseas…
Podcast #054 – Entropy And Horses
Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and eventually ending in complete chaos. I…
Podcast #055 – Horses And The Web Of Influence
In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in America. Their results with laminit…
Podcast #058 – A Review Of A Horse Magazine #2
This podcast is the second time I have picked up a popular horse magazine, reviewed the articles and added my thoughts on the ones I selected. I recei…
Podcast #060 – Dennis Brooks DVM, Horse Eyes and Veterinary Medicine
Dennis Brooks, DVM is an equine ophthalmologist with a worldwide presence established over 40 years.
We chat about many subjects:
*Where are veterina…
Podcast #065 – Is What We’re Being Taught Correct?
Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that …
Podcast #066 – Mission Statement
Horses thriving is open to interpretation, but as we look at our horses, we all see the difference between thriving and existing. We see this in ourse…
Podcast #067 – Equine Psychotherapy
I talked with Bonny Barry of Equine Reflections (EquineReflections.org), a non-profit horse therapy center in Folsom, Louisiana.
Bonny’s honesty a…
Podcast #068 – A Perspective On Veterinary Medicine With Dennis French DVM
My guest today is Dr. Denny French, a second-generation large animal veterinarian from the midwest United States. He was a professor at Louisiana Stat…
Podcast #072 – Cognitive Dissonance In Horse Owners
I discuss how we get bombarded with contradictory information in horse care. To preserve our sanity, we tightly hold to what we believe, given to us b…
Podcast #074 – Get Your Brain Right, Get Your Horse Right (“Cognitive Laziness”)
I am returning to podcasting after a 6-month break. I will tell you about why in the NEXT podcast. Instead, in this podcast, I want to read a blog I w…
Podcast #075 – The Role Of Being An Advocate For Horses
This podcast looks at a human study that initially solidified the benefits of consuming EPA, one of the Omega-3 fish oils so popular today. However, r…
Podcast #077 – The Messages Veterinarians Receive In Their Inbox
I received the following emails targeting equine veterinarians with various announcements last week. You must be "cognitively diligent" to read the su…
Podcast #078 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Forward, Introduction, and Chapter 1
May 2023 represents my 50th year working with horses. So how did I get here? What brought me from being a wandering young man to becoming an equine ve…
Podcast #080 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 2 and 3
This podcast is chapters two and three of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the ne…
Podcast #081 – The Horse Race Between Evolution And Technology
Evolution defines the development of a species, such as the horse, throughout all time on Earth. However, the starting point may be adjusted to any mo…
Podcast #082 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 4 and 5
This podcast is chapters four and five of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the ne…
Podcast #083 – Horse Care Old And New
How long ago is relative to how old we are. To a baby, yesterday seems so long ago. A 24-year-old may think they have "forever" before them, hoping th…
Podcast #084 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 6 and 7
This podcast is chapters six and seven of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the ne…
Podcast #085 – Integrative Medicine With Dr Marty Goldstein
Dr. Martin Goldstein is known as "Dr. Marty" and "The Dog Doc." He earned his veterinary degree from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1973,…
Podcast #086 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 8, 9, and 10
This podcast is chapters eight, nine, and ten of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over…
Podcast #087 – Get Your Horse’s House In Order – A Magazine Review
This podcast reviews a vet school’s economic impact statement and a special Equus magazine about the health of our horses. When I read these, my fir…
Podcast #088 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 11 and 12
This podcast is chapters eleven and twelve of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over th…
Podcast #089 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 13, 14, and 15
This podcast is chapters thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Hor…