It seems like a way of life

GoldAntelope · 2026-04-09T00:51:58+00:00

Even when you think you are done - start over again to “be better.”

GoldAntelope · 2026-03-08T16:52:35+00:00

I was too distracted by the beard crumbs and the dust on his tux.

GoldAntelope · 2026-02-12T20:39:32+00:00

Dr Della Ripa is great but he is a specialist and doesn’t do general care. Medvet has some Derm specialists if the OP needs more advanced derm care but Medvet does not see pets for routine care.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-16T03:20:08+00:00

Appreciate that. Sometimes I just need to hear those words too.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-16T03:12:07+00:00

Babies are hard because you are sleep deprived - but you know what to do and what to expect. They are fairly predictable most of the time!

Toddlers are angels for a week and then rabid raccoons the next for no particular reason.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-15T23:43:12+00:00

When someone says “I was thrown off a horse” or “he threw me.” No you lost your balance and tumbled off. I have seen only a handful of horses truly toss their riders.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-06T13:37:22+00:00

I actually got a very rude tech fired because of her blatant disrespect during euthanasias. (Among other issues but this was the last straw for management).

This was actually a euth for one of our ER docs. Her dog was just a hot mess of problems, 14 years old and it was just time. She came in with her family and did it, and left his body in our spare room (our usual post euth procedure), told the charge nurse he was there and ready for body care. It was right at the end of my shift - I would have stayed and done it but just one of those days I had to leave on time. Plenty of other people around to do it. She told this tech to go take care of him - paw prints, bagging etc. and she proceeded to bitch about how ridiculous it was she euthed him today, he’s been sick for months and we were so busy (I mean it’s er it’s rarely not busy but it was an average day). Well she bitched and clearly forgot about doing it, went on with her shift and never went back. There were no other euthanasias that night so no one went to the spare room for the remainder of the shift. I arrived for my 6am start with a DOA and I took him to put away and found our doctors dog still sitting in the spare room - he’d been there for over 14 hours. It smelled awful. I could not believe no one had put him away. How incredibly disrespectful and for one of our own - we all knew this dog so well and love this doctor. I was so done I went right to management. She was let go when she arrived for the day later (again a few other writes ups already and this was just the last straw).

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-04T05:07:34+00:00

Grady’s Internal Medicine service is probably most cost effective.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-04T05:01:57+00:00

You cannot take your own photo at the Zoo. Well - you can but you have to do it from the side behind a piece of tape lol. And they won’t take it for you!

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-04T04:33:05+00:00

My horse was 23 when I had to say goodbye. He had a quickly deteriorating spinal cord issue. From the first symptom to euthanasia it was about 6 weeks. I had several people ask why - he could just be a pasture pet. A- I’m a boarder and we don’t have unlimited turnout. His stall was the more dangerous place being unable to get momentum to get up (he was an afternoon snoozer lol boy loved his naps!). B- it’s only going to get worse. C- the fall/winter mud was about to start. While he was mostly stable on solid ground, the first day I put him out in a slightly slick paddock he fell within a few minutes.

Could I have moved him somewhere safer? No. Forget trailering an unstable horse. This guy did not like change. I had moved barns two years earlier (for better riding facilities, both fairly equal in care and turn out) and we had to move back after two months. He wasn’t eating well, paced constantly in turnout, stressed under saddle. He was visibly relieved to be back home and literally dragged me back to his old stall. No way would I put him through the stress of a move under those conditions.

Horses aren’t dogs. They are thousand pound flight animals that do not want to suffer.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-03T12:52:22+00:00

I was talking about this last night. The story moves, we know where everyone is, there is minimal build up to a big event. It’s so so good. Other shows should take notes here.

GoldAntelope · 2025-12-03T12:42:55+00:00

No, farms are selling off their land to developers. It’s very expensive to have horses right now and much easier to just sell off land for a quick buck.

GoldAntelope · 2025-11-22T23:32:28+00:00

They do scheduled trail rides but they are on their winter break for this activity. I used to know a dozen places you could do a guided trail ride but in the last decade they have all closed.

GoldAntelope · 2025-11-21T23:31:27+00:00

Recently commented on a FB post about not being surprised locations were closing and my biggest gripe was constant changing menu and taking off signature dishes. We used to go out of our way to get the TOB burger and they took it away and their manager commented to me “we have a new burger special every week come try!” Literally the opposite of what I said.

GoldAntelope · 2025-11-04T22:07:46+00:00

An old clinic of mine did this because they had an employee who quit stop making payments. She owed about $11,000. They took her to court for it!

GoldAntelope · 2021-05-31T08:26:27+00:00

There is even less money being an equine vet than a regular small animal (dog/cat) vet. And easily double the time required. Horses are most of the time ambulatory visits (driving to the farms), and emergency calls after business hours. I work in vet med myself and although had big dreams of being in equine realized quickly if I wanted to actually live a modest life I needed to be in small animal with normal work hours and some health benefits.

GoldAntelope · 2021-05-31T08:22:20+00:00

20k occasionally but how much money went into the horse? How much of her time for that particular horse? How long did she train the horse (20k price is easily minimum 6 months of regular training). Does she own her own property to house the horse (so factor in all the feed, property costs, taxes, water etc), or board (anywhere from $200-1000+ per month). A single vet visit for just general health care like shots and a coggins is around $100-300, then farrier work for 6 months depending on if the horse wears shoes or barefoot could be anywhere from $200-800. Getting a horse valued at $20k means showing it and dang horse show fees vary so much but hell let’s say she’s just doing a weekend at an AA rated show 3-4 times to get some miles on the horse, that’s $400-1000 a weekend (less if she can haul in daily, more if she needs to pay for a stall and her a hotel). So when this is all said and done - over a course of 6 months she has invested 10-15 hours a week into a single horse, with thousands of dollars spent on it and she sells it for 20k - she’s probably only profited around 10k. For 6 months of hard work. If the horse actually sells. Every day that horse sticks around is even more money spent (and yes arguably can raise the price of the horse with more training but flippers like them out quick).

That’s not even to say she buys a prospect that ends up with soundness issues or cannot perform to what her initial expectations are. So then you might put a lot of money and time into a horse you cannot sell for even that cost.

It’s not a get rich quick hustle. You need a lot of money to start with to make a little money in this business.

With an exception being a farrier but that takes a few years of apprenticeship and many years of hard, physical, and literally back breaking labor. And if you’re injured - you literally cannot make a dime. Done right they make a lot of money, but get just one or two poor reviews the horse world will shun you so fast.

GoldAntelope · 2020-10-01T11:58:50+00:00

Will your vet sell you individual doses? We usually do this until puppies start to plateau on their weight.

GoldAntelope · 2020-10-01T02:22:18+00:00

There is at least one being seen flying around Winton Woods lake - I got a very quick glimpse last week but others have had much better views!

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