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July 2009 - Posts

Weekends are for ...

This weekend is for mowing and catching up. It's been fun to have lots of rain this year instead of the drought we faced the past two years, but MAN has the grass been growing! Seems I can't keep up. I purchased a new John Deere zero-turn radius mower at the end of last season because my older riding mower finally spit the bit and the other (slightly less older) riding mower was dropping parts... Read More

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Health Newsletter Passes 150,000 Subscribers

TheHorse.com's weekly Health electronic newsletter last night passed the 150,000 subscriber mark. That's really cool! This is also the electronic newsletter that won this year's top honor for e-newsletters at the American Horse Publications annual awards contest ! And you know what's also great? It's free to anyone because our sponsor Pfizer Animal Health is like us and believes... Read More

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Less Than One Week Before Free Webinar on “West Nile Virus: Reality Check!”

This is the last week to sign up before our next Webinar, “West Nile Virus: Reality Check!”, on Thursday, June 30, at 8 p.m. ET. This Webinar is sponsored Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health and features presenter Steve Reed, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, of Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky. It’s been 10 years since West Nile virus was introduced into the United States, and thousands of horses... Read More

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Senior Horse Contest

Have you seen that Purina is having a Senior Horse Tales Contest ? Here's the promo: "You and your horse have shared many precious moments through the years. Tell us what’s special about him in the Purina Senior Horse Tales Contest. Enter by telling a funny, emotional, remarkable, or comeback story about your older horse, and if Purina Equine Senior horse feed played a role in that story.... Read More

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Free Horses vs Horses For Sale

Okay, we all know there is no such thing as a "free" horse. Oh you can get one that doesn't cost you any money to start with, but it's all uphill from there. And for most of us, that's okay. We spend the money because we want the horse(s). I have been contacting horse folks across the country, and they are telling me that while there are plenty of the "free" horses around... Read More

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I'm Trying To Find ...

If you had to break all of the content on TheHorse.com into large categories, how would you arrange it? Think about all the topics we cover, and pick out some big "baskets" that would hold seem logical if you were looking for information on a specific topic. Read More

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There's Sharing, and There's Stealing

TheHorse.com staff works very hard (and spends a lot of money) to put all the information on horse health, care, management, and welfare up on this Web site for you to use free of charge. It hurts us financially when people steal articles from us to give their own Web sites content they didn't have to pay for. We want to share the information we work hard to gather and pay our freelancers to write... Read More

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We Don't Make This Stuff Up

It always amazes me that people call or e-mail us about news items and articles and want us to change the facts because they don't like them. I try really hard to explain that we use credible sources and have expert proofers read all of the in-depth articles. That's not to say we can't get something wrong; we're human. But in the vast majority of cases, the facts are correct, it's... Read More

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Are We Ever Really Prepared?

My Wyoming daughter called last night. Her day yesterday off started out fabulous--horseback ride into the mountains with her boyfriend, Josh, lots of nice trout caught to fix for dinner, beautiful ride down the mountain. Then while driving to meet some of his family for trout dinner the vehicle in front of them suddenly wrecked, ejecting two of the four occupants. Barbara just had a refresher CPR... Read More

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Just Call Me Madam President

Last week I became the President of the American Horse Publications . It's a great group, and probably any equine-related magazine, newsletter, Web site, or publisher you might use is probably a member of AHP. The equine industry is facing some hard times right now; the publishing industry is also in trouble as a whole. I'm sure you've seen all the reports on unwanted horses, equine overpopulation... Read More

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