Austrian researchers have reported that the stability of a rider’s seat affects the forces acting on a horse’s back. Using an electronic pressure mat placed under a dressage saddle, scientists with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna’s Movement Science Group measured the forces created when an experienced rider rode 10 different sound horses at the [...]
May 21, 2009
Nutro Products announced a voluntary recall of select varieties of NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods with “Best If Used By Dates” between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010. The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and ten additional countries. [...]
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The American Quarter Horse Journal, May 26, 2009 – For the first time, Germany will host the 2009 FEI European Championships Reining.
The event, October 7-11 at the Kreuth (Oberpfalz) facility near Nuremberg, Germany, will include another milestone as it will be the first European Championships for junior and youth riders.
“NRHA Germany is honored and proud [...]
America’s Horse, May 19, 2009 – Winning at a horse show isn’t the only way to earn a big, shiny Montana Silversmiths buckle. Through the American Quarter Horse Association Horseback Riding Program, thousands of AQHA and American Quarter Horse Youth Association members have discovered another way to enjoy their time horseback, while still having the [...]
“Showing to Win: Western Pleasure” is a comprehensive look at the standards for the western pleasure class.
The American Quarter Horse Journal, May 19, 2009 – AQHA has released “Showing to Win: Western Pleasure,” an in-depth look at one of the most popular western show classes, geared for all western pleasure exhibitors, trainers and judges.
AQHA [...]
By: Ve DeCluette
On Monday, May 18, 2009, just before 6 AM a fire ravaged the Circle L 5 Riding Club barn located in Fort Worth, Texas, and left heartbreak in its wake. The Fort Worth Fire Department put the fire out quickly, but even their quick action and efforts could not save all of the [...]
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Less income from states, teaching hospitals, private sector spells cutbacks
The recession’s impact on veterinary schools and colleges can be seen in what isn’t on those campuses. Mothballed teaching positions, delayed building projects and equipment purchases, and smaller endowments plague just about every institution, officials say. All this after many of them were required to return [...]
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As state budgets were being determined this spring, veterinary schools and colleges looked to outside resources to make sure their requests were heard.
At the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dean Ralph C. Richardson said he had weekly communications with the university’s legislative liaison. Every Monday he also met with other deans and senior [...]
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Federal authorities announced removal of limitations on one brand of pre-exposure rabies vaccine that had been imposed in spring 2008 because of tight supplies.
An early April announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that Novartis Vaccines, one of the nation’s two human-use rabies vaccine suppliers, had doses available for pre-exposure use. Novartis [...]
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The same strain of Clostridium difficile that causes illness and death in human hospitals was reported in a 14-year-old Quarter Horse, according to a paper published in May issue of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. Clostridium difficile bacteria can proliferate in the intestines and produce toxins that can damage the intestinal lining of horses, humans, and production [...]
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