by Katharine Mertens, DVM Pegasus      Late last summer I had my first experience getting a horse airborne.  Whether from diligent research or beginner’s luck, the horse launched successfully from Portland, and arrived in upstate New York… Read more

To blanket or not? by Katharine Mertens, DVM As we enter the season of cold and wet, I am reminded of a story shared by a president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. “Animal Control is on the phone for you,” his wife… Read more

Recently I was asked to examine a horse for a young rider aspiring to 4H participation.  The horse sustained an unknown injury three years ago, and had been abandoned by the previous owner for rehabilitation at my client’s farm. Over the past… Read more

Last month, I illustrated proud flesh as a minor aberration in normal wound healing.  The example was so minor, in fact, that my client hadn’t recognized the specimen for what it was.  Her horse merely had a patch of pink tissue which had not… Read more

“Yup, that looks just fine,” I said, wiping some dirt off the healing wound at Calypso’s front leg.  Two weeks previously he came in from pasture with a flap of skin torn aside a few inches below his knee. Sutures and bandaging had… Read more