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Your Horse and Dangers of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease should be considered when a horse exhibits symptoms ranging from weakness, lameness, lack of appetite, and behavioral changes to kidney failure, heart disease or neurological disorders.
Looking for a Next Chapter for Your Horse or Pony?
Safe Landings offers resources for horse owners unable to retain ownership of their horses with viable options other than sending horses to auction where they may be purchased and sent to slaughter.
Out of Control: How to Bring Your Horse Back to Earth
When a horse is overwhelmed emotionally and becomes reactive, it's behavior will escalate unless we take active measures to retrieve the horse from the downward spiral.
Biting
Amongst horses, biting is a dominance activity to establish a pecking order. Directed at humans, biting is a dangerous habit that may require expert help to eliminate.
New Year's Tips To Help Horse Owners Save Money
Keeping a horse can be an expensive endeavor. It can take some thinking, but with creativity, it is possible to provide good horse care without completely emptying your bank account.
New Animal Disease Traceability Program in Effect 3/11/2013
Effective today, March 11, 2013, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has instituted its Animal Disease Traceability Program (ADTP) to improve its ability to trace livestock, including horses, in the event of a disease outbreak. The new system applie
Heat Stroke
 Learn how to recognize heat or sun stroke in your horse and how to relieve the critical symptoms and physical conditions that are a threat to the horse's life and health.
Research Shows Lack of Genetic Diversity in Stallions
An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to produce compelling evidence that the lack of genetic diversity in modern stallions is the result of the domestication process.
Summer Months Bring Possibility of Potomac Horse Fever
April Knudson, DVM, is an equine specialist with Merial Veterinary Services. She has a special interest in equine gastrointestinal health, infectious disease and lameness. She holds a doctor of veterinary medicine from the University of California-Davis.
Spring Mountain Alliance Responds to BLM “Emergency” Roundup of Up to 200 Wild Horses in Cold Creek, Nevada
âArlene Gawne, President of America's Wild Horse Advocates the Spring Mountain Alliance announced their reaction regarding the Bureau of Land Management's announcement of its intent to conduct an "emergency" removal of up to 200 wild horses from the Col