04/24/2025
This is where we are at in the horse industry -
Celebrating the death of a Veterinarian who took his own life due to the bullying and harassment from uneducated keyboard warriors.
Veterinarians have the #1 su***de rate in all of the statistics.
Remember that as we continue this conversation.
I apologize for how redundant it might sound, but I truly cannot stress this message enough.
Everyone here knows that my entire life is dedicated to equine welfare and ethical handling of horses.
Most of you also probably know that my primary speciality is dealing with aggressive horses.
Horses that have been so incredibly failed by humans, most of the time.
But, I am a trainer.
A highly educated and experienced trainer in these specific types of situations.
Veterinarians are often not, and yet they are put in these situations on the daily and expected to perform đź’Ż what is asked of them.
Just for context since no one likes to do actual research -
The owner of this horse had used this vet for years with no issues.
In TWENTY years of practice he’s had TWO complaints of him being “hard handed” with horses and both were on the same day.
(Clearly between that day and his su***de he had some personal things going on. And yet no one thought to check in on him).
The horse he was “choking” was a feral mustang c**t who could not be haltered or led and the vet (as per usual) was called out to do a procedure on an animal that had NO business being handled.
Also, the rope being put around 3 times was to make the pressure broader to protect the horse, not to be cruel.
This horse was purchased to be a quick flip as that is what this particular horse owner does.
He had to be gelded “as soon as possible” due to her having stallions loose with mares on the property and this c**ts testosterone levels was making his behavior too difficult for them to contain.
The owner
#1 Should not have had a horse she could not handle.
#2 Should have invested in a trainer first to support both the horse and the Veterinarian.
THAT would have been “horse first.”
Instead, she decided to not invest in the horses well being to save on money and just had the vet deal with her mess.
I do NOT agree with what happened in the video, and of course have a different way that I go about these things -
AND, people need to understand that roping a horse that can’t be haltered or handled is pretty standard procedure for many professionals and when he needed the horse to get back up, to keep the HORSE safe, he kicked him in the chin because anything closer could have gotten him killed.
If you do not understand that, then my friend you are sinply not as educated around horses and how dangerous they can be as you think.
Vets are NOT trainers, and are put in life threatening situations every single day because of unqualified horse owners and end up learning and using tools they need to survive.
Survival of horse and human is their only priority.
I will say it again.
The owner of this horse had NO business having this vet in there risking HIS life, let alone having a horse like this in the first place...
And instead of being accountable and advocating for either horse or Vet, she recorded it, put it on blast painting it as an animal cruelty investigation, never mentioning the reality that actually happened and allowed a cyber war to happen.
She wasn’t handling the horse for the procedure because she wasn’t capable of doing it.
End of story.
So regardless on if I agree with what happened or not, one thing I stand firm on, is that vets (and farriers) should NOT be handling horses that the owners are unwilling or incapable of handling.
And now here we are.
A huge public “horse first” platform is celebrating the death, SU***DE, of someone who was called out to assist to the best of HIS abilities by putting his own life at risk and then fed to the wolves of uneducated social media keyboard warriors is just a perfect example of the bu****it that this would has come to.
As someone who is consistently called out to clean up poor horsmanship, and has also felt the mental and emotional pain of the intense attacks that can come from the public, my heart goes out to this man and his family and all of his other clients that are mourning yet another blow to this profession.
If anyone should be being persecuted right now, it’s owners like this that caused this situation in the first place.
If you are truly “horse first”, then you shouldn’t be attacking the Veterinarian.
The problem, is the Veterinarians trying to help and not walking away.
The problem, is owners that hoard horses they don’t know how to handle and then expect other people to do the life-threatening “quick jobs” so they can save money and just flip them on to the next person.
That, is the actual crime against horses in this industry and I am completely at my whits end of hearing animal rights people scream for justice around situations that they are the ones creating half the time.
And this poster and anyone supporting this thread should be ashamed of themselves.
