Month: August 2017

The ISPCA is appealing for information after a malnourished horse was seized from waste ground off Killarney Road in Bray recently. ISPCA enquiries established that the animal, a roan cob gelding, was tethered in the same spot for a number of days and it had become entangled in the rope with which it was tied. […]

Professor van Weeren, commenting in the current issue of the Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ), suggests that equine lameness needs to be redefined to reflect new digital assessment techniques that use preset parameters to detect gait asymmetries.1 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evj.12715/full The traditional method for detecting equine lameness is subjective, using expert visual evaluation of gait to identify the […]