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Pets & Animals > Horse Care & Health Preventing health hazards for horses

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"Horses are born looking for a way to get hurt" is a common saying where I live, and it's true that horses are inventive, even creative, in finding ways to get bruised, cut, scraped, and worse. Horses get hurt or sick in three main ways: they eat something they shouldn't (the wrong stuff, too much of it), they catch a diseas... More..

Pets & Animals > Animal Rights & Issues The ethical issue of horses being sold for slaughter

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What's wrong with horse slaughter for human consumption abroad? Lots. First, there's the question of why people in the countries where horsemeat is on the table insist on eating US horses...why don't they kill their own horses? All of them have a horse industry. All of them could find horses there...but most of their citizen... More..

Pets & Animals > Horse Care & Health Horse anatomy: The hoof

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No hoof, no horse. From Xenophon in ancient Greece to every horse-owner in the world today, this truth remains: if a horse does not have healthy hooves, it's useless and eventually doomed. Horses must stand and move in order to stay healthy, and they do that on one toe-which has a toenail-otherwise called a hoof. Many other ... More..

Pets & Animals > Horse Care & Health Horse anatomy: The frog

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When you look at a horse standing in front of you, the frog is invisible-you can only see the frog by picking up a hoof and looking at its underside. That V-shaped rubbery-looking dark area, with a cleft in it, is the frog. But what is the frog, actually, and what does it do? Let's consider the whole hoof. Horses stand on on... More..

Pets & Animals > Horse Care & Health Horse anatomy: The hock

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The hock is perhaps the most complex-and most important-joint in a performance horse's body. This backward-pointing "knee" is actually the anatomic equivalent of a human's ankle. You can see this if you look at yourself sideways in a mirror, and bend all joints of your leg, resting your big toe on the floor. A horse stands o... More..

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