By OnTheWeb Thursday, May 8, 2008
I’ve written articles over the years about horses who survived amputation surgery. There was Boitron, the California Thoroughbred stallion who could service mares after amputation surgery. There were Dr. Ric Redden’s dramatic cases of founder survivors who galloped around his paddock on artificial feet with “transplanted frogs”. Dr. Chris Colles had the never-say-die Appaloosa in England with the spring-loaded foot. And who can forget that paint yearling in India? Or the landmine-maimed elephant amputee in Thailand? Longtime Hoofcare and Lameness Journal readers will remember them all.
By OnTheWeb Thursday, May 8, 2008
From Foxnews
They can’t fetch the paper or curl up in your lap yet, but a Pittsburgh-area researcher may have found a way to make pet fish more interesting.
By OnTheWeb Sunday, May 4, 2008
From the great Ron Hevener.
The moon was high … the indigo/night air smelled like water and the air sizzled its arms around you . . . that’s how it felt, as we waited…
Uncovering America by Horseback
By Judi McLeod Sunday, November 25, 2007
Not since Roy Rogers and “Trigger” have a cowboy and his loyal horse loomed so largely on the American landscape.
But Roy and the beloved Trigger are long gone, although their legend lives on at the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum, which Roy Rogers Jr. who manages it says draws some 200,000 visitors each year.
After Trigger died at age 33, his hide was stretched over a plastic likeness and put on display. And as the official Roy Rogers/Dale Evans website points out, “Trigger is mounted and not stuffed”.
Raisin toxicity killsBy OnTheWeb Monday, November 12, 2007
This week I had the first case in history of raisin toxicity ever seen at MedVet. My patient was a 56-pound, 5 yr old male neutered lab mix that ate half a canister of raisins sometime between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM on Tuesday. He started with vomiting, diarrhea and shaking about 1AM on Wednesday but the owner didn’t call my emergency service until 7AM.
Good Dog pups help kids learn to readBy OnTheWeb Saturday, November 10, 2007
Justin Ortiz sits on a rug in Room 202, Christy Crawford’s third grade classroom. “It’s 6 o’clock in the morning,” the 8-year-old tells Bodhi. “It is time to wake up.”
Actually, it’s 2:45 in the afternoon, and Bodhi, a 58-pound standard poodle, is awake and at work helping children improve their literacy. He’s listening to Justin read the children’s book “In the Morning.”
Ontario horse had to be put down following cougar attackBy Judi McLeod Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Rumours have been rife in the London Ontario area that a cougar was on the loose. People who fleetingly spotted the cougar were not always believed.
At one stage, rumors of cougars--not just a single one--were so rife that people started to give credence to the urban legend that the government had set the cougars loose to cut down on a burgeoning deer population.
By Judi McLeod Tuesday, October 16, 2007
If there’s such a thing as the ‘Angel of Doggies’ in a troubled world, his name must be Aza.
When Aza, died at age 12 of leukemia last winter, his human companions David and Sophie Dastych were inconsolable without her.
There were so many special things about the lovable Aza, and one of them was she never left David’s side when he was ill and recuperating from a serious operation.
