May 22, 2012

Twitter

Are you on Twitter? It is one of the fastest growing websites on the internet today. It is a way of keeping in touch with people. At first I did not quite get it…now I do and so I am inviting you to follow my twitter – http://twitter.com/Dr_Dan_DVM which is my professional twitter. I will be posting quick tidbits about dog and horse health here and you can really make comments back ask questions really interact with me very quickly anytime I am in front of the computer. Almost instant access, because I have a small program called Twhirl which keeps me connected to my twitter account anytime I am on the computer. It is excellent. So go ahead follow my Twitter @Dr_Dan_DVM

Horses for kids

Do you have kids and are they interested in horses or you would like them to be? Well I have a website for you. The University of Guelph has redesigned their horse website. I heard about it and went to check it out at http://www.equineguelph.ca It is a nice website but what I found there was another link to another site and if you have kids you are going to want to go to http://www.equimania.ca This site will definitely teach them about horse health care and they will not even know the are learning; they are just having fun.

Equimania Stables is very well designed with a lot of cool computer tricks such as books you read online that you use your mouse to turn the page just as if it was a real book. The tack room which teaches your child about colors, leg markings, face markings and it looks like they will have in the future anatomy. I got a perfect 100 in Happy Appy’s stall (stall 3 – hint be sure to pick the stall too). Oh and try and beat my high score (low time) on putting items away in the grooming box. You will find this game in the wash stall. I was able to do it in 5.9 seconds after about a dozen times it is quite addicting (did I say this site was for kids?) I did notice that a couple of pages are not finished but overall a very creative site and educational on how to care for your horse definitely worth a visit. So be sure to check out http://www.equimania.ca and teach your children about horse health care in a fun way!

A little information about EasyBoots

I had mentioned that it is important to have a pair of EasyBoots for your emergency kit. It is imperative that you have these fit to your horse before you ever have the need to use them. Well Karen at EasyCare & Endurance Musings made mention of this point on her blog. So I surfed on over to her site to check it out and I found a good deal of important information when dealing with the use and care of EasyBoots. I think you need to go check her site out – Karen’s EasyCare & Endurance Musings

Pergolide – Update

OK I make a post about pergolide and the very same day FDA makes another statement about it.

http://www.fda.gov/cvm/pergolide.htm

Thanks to Suzzane from SingingHorse Essentials and Cassie’s Story for updating me on this.

The unfortunate thing is that supplies may still be slow in coming because of the original shut down by the FDA.