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June 2009 - Posts

Trouble

Because of space limitations, not all the stories I followed and wrote about in the forthcoming book Equine ER , made it into the book, such as this one below about an older Quarter Horse named Trouble. Also, some early buzz: Susan Richards, author of the New York Times best-seller “Chosen by a Horse,” calls Equine ER as “thrilling and drama-filled as any of the popular hospital shows on television... Read More

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Pony eye surgery

Dr. Claire Latimer, Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital's specialist in veterinary ophthalmology, performs eye surgery to remove a mass from a pony's eye. The eye was sewn up afterward to facilitate the healing. Read More

Farm calls video + adoption fair!

Hello there. Busy day? Take a breath and wander away to the Bluegrass for a minute or so with the latest Equine ER video (click here.) I will also have another post tomorrow. You get a double dose this week. Meanwhile, for those of you in Kentucky, I am going to be at the John Henry Memorial Equine Adoption fair Saturday June 27 at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park. It starts at 4:30 p.m. I’ll be pre... Read More

Debt and determination paid off

Above: Tom Riddle (left) and Bill Rood in the Bluegrass equine hospital's beginnings. Below: In 2008, close to 6,500 surgeries were performed at Rood & Riddle. Hospitals are places where life turns on a dime, and Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital is no different: During the year I spent writing the book Equine ER, which comes out in August, I saw lives saved, lost, and remade. I also saw that... Read More

Lucky, Part Two

Here is the second part of an (edited) excerpt that began last week from a chapter entitled “Lucky” from the nonfiction book Equine ER: Stories From a Year in the Life of an Equine Veterinary Hospital by Leslie Guttman, coming out in August 2009 from Eclipse Press. (See earlier post below for Part One.) Last week, Lucky, a six-week-old Tennessee Walker foal from Louisa, Kentucky, was mauled by a stallion... Read More

Mauled by a stallion

This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled “Lucky” from the book Equine ER, coming out in August by Eclipse Press. The trailer pulled up to Barn 9 after a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Louisa, a town in eastern Kentucky. The referring vet had called ahead: A foal, a family pet roughly six weeks old, had been mauled by a stallion. It was touch and go. His owners were desperate to save him. Dr. Alexandra... Read More

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