A Chilling Walk In San Francisco (blog)
A chilling look at the state of America as I saw it. I walked a mile from the 2018 AAEP meeting site seeing what we don't see on our farms. I was shoc…
Category: Veterinary Medicine General Thoughts Topics
A Perspective On Veterinary Medicine With Dennis French DVM – Podcast #068
Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that …
A Review Of A Horse Magazine – Podcast #042
I am on a path of revealing just how science works and why it is a well orchestrated drama to usually promote an agenda. I try not to be cynical or ev…
A Review Of A Horse Magazine #2 – Podcast #058
This podcast is the second time I have picked up a popular horse magazine, reviewed the articles and added my thoughts on the ones I selected. I recei…
A Veterinarian’s Christmas Story (blog)
This is a reprint of a blog I wrote in 2013 how I was faced with the possibility of killing my own horse with my incompetence. A story about faith.
An Iconoclast In The Horse World (blog)
It is the start of 2021 and the world is in a disruptive way. Our lives are nothing like they were a year ago. So…
Can Horse Owners Believe The Horse Science? – Rounds With Doc T
From 2020 to 2022, we were asked to believe the science. The first question is this – What is science? Can it be fair? Can it be absolute? How is it…
Cognitive Dissonance In Horse Owners – Podcast #072
I discuss how we get bombarded with contradictory information in horse care. To preserve our sanity, we tightly hold to what we believe, given to us b…
Decay Of The Profession (blog)
An 80 year old client lost his mare because he could not get adequate veterinary care. The reasons are disturbing and reflect badly on this profession…
Dennis Brooks DVM, Horse Eyes and Veterinary Medicine – Podcast #060
Dennis Brooks, DVM is an equine ophthalmologist with a worldwide presence established over 40 years.
We chat about many subjects:
*Where are veterina…
Disrupters (blog)
I discuss what an "altruistic disrupter" is and how they can benefit your horses in health and well being. While not easy for the horse industry, it i…
Entropy And Horses – Podcast #054
Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and eventually ending in complete chaos. I…
Equine Dentistry Seen Through 75,000 Floats – Rounds With Doc T
I have floated the teeth of horses since 1983, worked on over 75,000 horse mouths and still am floating teeth every day. I have some thoughts, and man…
Equine Psychotherapy – Podcast #067
Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that …
Get Your Brain Right, Get Your Horse Right (blog)
"Cognitive Laziness" is how we interact with horses today. Through agenda driven medicine and marketing, I look at the collision of new and old.
Honesty – A True Story (blog)
When the words of this man I met settle into your consciousness you will either be shocked or say that this is the problem with the world (and our hor…
Horse Owners Experiencing An Infodemic – Podcast #051
This will be a podcast where I vent my frustration in my attempts to help horse owners help their horses thrive in a human world. All I try to do is g…
Horse Seminar Summaries – Podcast #050
I attended 3 equine seminars all with veterinarians discussing different matters: 1) “How Horses Think” put on by Cornell University (not the vet …
Horsemen, Surgeons And Equine Dentistry (blog)
Within veterinary medicine are recognized divisions (surgery, medicine, ambulatory) and within these are hidden divisions. Do these affect horse owner…
Horses And The Road Less Traveled – Podcast #053
Feeding our horses as they have for the past 30 years is the “well-worn path.” Insulin resistance, Cushing’s Disease, suspensory ligament diseas…
Horses And The Web Of Influence – Podcast #055
In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in America. Their results with laminit…
Horses In Addition And Subtraction Of Science – Podcast #038
Today’s podcast will look at the complexities of the art of scientific research and how it is being manipulated by marketing with the result not alw…
Houston We Have A Problem – Podcast #023
The equine veterinary profession is at a breaking point. There is little incentive for developing new horse vets. The American Association of Equine P…
How Is What You’re Doing Working For Your Horses? – Podcast #028
Horse owners want to do the best for their horses either because of the large investment in their purchase and training / showing or because they are …
I Want To Do The Best For My Horses (blog)
Horse owners are experiencing an information overload. It is not only with our horses but with just about every subject of interest to us. In…
Is What We’re Being Taught Correct? – Podcast #065
Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that …
Keeping Equine Practitioners In Horse Practices – Podcast #040
Horse owners are facing a shortage of equine veterinarians if they live any distance from horses living in a dense population. The cost of a veterinar…
Mission Statement – Podcast #066
Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that …
Rhubarb Pie, The Orbiting Earth and Your Horse (blog)
Our beliefs are based on what we've been taught by trusted sources. But is the knowledge we gain from mentors with no experience or with agendas reall…
The 2014 AAEP Convention (blog)
2014 AAEP meeting Salt Lake City, NV. Horses again discussed as objects without feelings. EOTRH bantered - no conclusions. Another disappointment for …
The 2018 AAEP Meeting – A Summary (blog)
The shortcomings of the 2018 AAEP meeting. Doctors spending more time testing than looking at the patient. I don't hold back my frustration.
The AAEP Discusses Laminitis In Horses – Podcast #032
I review how insulin is involved in a response to nutrition as well as the roll of protein in the development of hooves. I believe that preventing lam…
The Best Interest Of The Horse (blog)
Integrity is a trait assumed to exist in all professionals but they are only human. The stories here and my first hand experiences indicate the associ…
The Death Of Horses (blog)
Horse owners say, “I just want what’s best for my horse.” This is code for “I’m overwhelmed with information. I don’t know who to trust.…
The Right To Prevent – Podcast #018
As horse owners, we have a right to protect and to prevent injury and disease from happening to the horses under our care. However, owners are being b…
Who Is Responsible? (part 1) (blog)
Part 1 - Who is responsible for your horses' behavior? After removing physical reasons (teeth, ulcers, etc) the responsibility rests on the person cha…
Who Is Responsible? (part 2) (blog)
Part 2 - The skills of leadership. We relate with horses only when we understand who they are adjusting ourselves to meet their expectations. Listen f…
Why Do I Bother? (blog)
Attending the 2017 AAEP meeting offers the small but guaranteed chance of learning something that will last a lifetime. Here is one of those times fro…
Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn? – Podcast #049
Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn? Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World is what we do at The Horse’s Advocate. But what about us? How do we thrive in…
Why Horse Owners Need To Understand The Parachute Study – Podcast #009
This was a parody published in a top medical journal to bring attention to the fact that there are few research papers published that we can believe. …