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I am a 100% mobile large animal veterinarian providing high quality veterinary services to the, horses, cattle and small ruminants of the Kamloops and North Thompson areas.

17/11/2024

The MMV Photo contest deadline is November 18th at 5 pm. We have some amazing photos of the North Thompson animals and could always use some more. This picture I snapped with my drone this morning (It wont be entered!)

03/11/2024

We are excited to announce the First Annual "Mulligan Mobile Vet Photo Contest"! We will choose 3 photos to showcase in our MMV 2025 Calendar and each winner will receive a calendar.
Here are the rules:

1) Photos must be "landscape" orientation in order to fit the layout of the calendar page.

2) Photos can be of anything "Agriculture in North Thompson Valley and Bridge Lake"....including landscapes, livestock, etc.

3) Photos to be submitted before November 18 and winners will be chosen the next day. Photos can be emailed to "[email protected]" or posted to Facebook

4) All winners agree to have their photo published in the MMV Calendar.

5) Please include a brief caption with your photo

Good luck, we look forward to your submissions!

18/10/2024

The tale of a hang nail:
When two bulls get in a fight you best get out of the way. Unfortunately for this bull he was pushed into a barbed wire fence and half of his hind claw got ripped off. If youve ever purchased a quality breeding bull you know these guys dont come cheap (6-10k) and so you will do everything you can to save them for the next breeding season.

So we set to work cleaning up the outside claw, removing any dead tissue and hoof wall. (On a side note if you plan on being a large animal vet I would recommend spending time learning your knots and woodworking skills as they WILL come in handy.) We lifted the leg with a come-along and stretched it out with some ropes so he couldnt struggle while we worked. The goal was to place a wooden block on the GOOD claw so that he could take weight off the sore claw while it healed.

The rancher quickly found some red cedar boards and I cut it to size with my skillsaw (one section of my truck is all power tools, just in case). The claw-shaped wooden block was then glued onto the bottom of the sole and allowed to set. We applied a light bandage around the exposed tissue and we gave Mr Bull some painkillers/antibiotics before turning him out to a dry pen.

Over the course of the next month we rebandaged the hoof every 10 days and watched as the hoof started to harden up and form a healthy granulation bed. The hoof should grow down a new wall from the hairline and with any luck the claw will be sound enough to do what bulls do best...! Fight and Fornicate

06/10/2024

Although the lights may be off for B.C. Hydro in the North Thompson this Sunday there is still light in the sky to enjoy the day. Twelve hours without power is actually a reminder to slow down and enjoy the peace in our little valley.

03/10/2024

Time is scarce in most people’s lives but I recommend taking some time and checking off an item on your bucket list. Showing my homegrown heifer “Elma Lou” at the B.C. Ag Expo in an open class was one of those items.

Lou caught my eye when she was just a few days old and having a similar birthdate of March 5 I knew she was a special bovine. I halter broke her at 6 months and returned to training her for the show at 18 months old with only 3 weeks of preparation. Needless to say I was very proud when she stood quietly in the show ring and accepted her green ribbon 😊

Although she wasn’t as fat 😬 ( er…fleshy) as the higher placing girls in her class I was still very proud to have shown her and would like to thank John and Judy Greenall for her sire and Ogilvie Stock ranch for selling me her dam. A big shout out to the Lougheed family ( on the other side of the tracks!) for keeping her close by for those 3 weeks of late night training.
Lucky for Lou she gets to return home and hopefully deliver a nice calf for me next spring that I may take back to the show as a pair.

28/09/2024

This past weekend I had the privilege to take part in the B.C. Ag Expo and witness the hard work of our local ranch kids come to fruition on their sale day. Stacey and I are very proud to support the 4H youth and we wish to congratulate Payton Devick of Devick’s Ranch, Mason Pastoor of Yellowhead 4H club and Torri Lenton of Chinook Country 4H club for their excellent lamb projects.

21/09/2024

A little red lipstick for Friday night ! This foal had a pretty bad laceration to the muzzle after it ran into an object ( this is when I wish animals could talk because the cause is NEVER obvious)

It looks like a simple cut but when you look inside the mouth it’s apparent it went all the way through and was making her very painful when nursing. Although a contaminated wound doesn’t usually make a good suture repair candidate we had to give it a chance as the other option of allowing it to heal on its own would have caused many problems.
Three layers of dissolvable suture later - subcutaneous, external skin, internal mucous membrane - and the muzzles excellent blood supply should make this laceration heal quickly.

10/09/2024

Stacey and I are very proud to have Lyla Lougheed join the MMV team with her trusty horse Stella. We needed her wisdom and maturity to keep her brother Weston in line😁

Lyla is an old soul with a great sense of work ethic and always a smile on her face when you catch her looking your way. She had a very strong showing at the BCRA Finals in Barriere last weekend, catching two of her steers in breakaway roping. She practiced hard all year and to make the finals is an accomplishment on its own. Way to go Lyla, we are all proud of you and looking forward to the High School Rodeo season with your family.

Weston is also very busy with team roping this season and has even won some money roping with his father, which we know he will re-invest in his 4 H steer “Red Bull” when he shows him at the B.C. Ag Expo in Barriere on Sept 20-23. If you are looking to purchase some quality 4H beef make sure to raise your hand at the auction when this young gentleman enters the ring with his project on Sept 23.

31/08/2024

This is a case to remind clients that eye injuries are an emergency. In this case a gelding was reaching his head through a fence and likely got a barb scratch on the surface of the cornea. With green dye applied to the eye the damaged epithelium will bind to the dye and make the lesion very easy to see. If you enjoy medical terminology the ophthalmologists have some doozy words to describe this eye:

Conjunctivitis: inflammation of the conjunctiva ( pink membrane of the eyelids )

Blepharospasm : involuntary contraction of the eyelid muscles associated with pain (squinting)

Epiphora: having excess tears or watery eyes.

Neovascularization: the ingrowth of blood vessels from the periphery of the eye onto the corneal surface.

There are also some isolated areas with small white spots on the cornea which are likely bacterial colonies. To help with the healing process the eye is medicated every 2 hrs with a topical antibiotic, anti inflammatory and the horse is also given pain killer an and antibiotics to prevent further infection. A delay in treatment can sometimes mean the difference between saving the eye or having to remove the eye surgically. We are hopeful that the former will be true in this case.

20/08/2024

A small navel hernia can sometimes be repaired with a simple elastrator band. I’ve shown posts of a hernia repair whereby the body wall is sutured closed under anesthesia but this is another way to repair smaller hernias. It’s important to have the horse laying on its back so that the rubber band doesn’t trap any abdominal contents in the sac. The rubber bands will fall off within 2-3 weeks and the underlying skin and hernia will be scarred over. In this case we also castrated the stallion

15/08/2024

How does a peice of wood get into a coronet band? From a downward facing spike on a log.
The puncture site in the coronet band will seal over and fester as if it were a hoof abscess. But be careful, no amount of poulticing will remove the offending stick. How can you tell the difference between a hoof abscess and a puncture wound Generally an abscess will break through the coronet band and create a horizontal slit whereas a puncture wound will be round and appear like a bullet hole. If in doubt call your vet

11/07/2024

A wise surgeon once told me that "A chance to cut is a chance to cure." Too bad in this case he would be out of a job , because a sarcoid tumor located on the eyelid is no place to use a scalpel blade especially when they are so large.
To avoid having a large defect of the upper eyelid the ocular sarcoid is best removed by injecting it with a special drug made out of bacteria!
That's right, scientists discovered that by taking a species of bacteria called "mycobacterium phlei" and using an emulsified fraction of its cell wall they could inject the 'cell wall fraction' into the tumor and have a 73% cure rate.
The way it works is that the 'cell wall fraction' once injected into the tumor will signal to the white blood cells (macrophages and lymphocytes) of the body to kill the tumor cells of the sarcoid, leaving the normal skin cells alone. This is a type of drug called an immune stimulant and has been around for quite some time.

In this case a young rescue horse was presented with a very large golf ball sarcoid on the left upper eyelid. After a single injection with the drug the sarcoid reduced in size by 80% and then 2 months later another injection was done to further reduce the tumor in size.
The horse was happy, the owner was happy, the vet was happy, and the surgeon wont talk to me anymore! Oh well 3 out of 4 ain't bad😆

26/06/2024

We will be taking a holiday from June 28-July8 for some R&R. If you need any prescriptions refilled please call the office
250 361-1658

05/06/2024

When this little guy was a weanling I put a wire and screws in his tibia growth plate to help straighten his hindlimb. NOW, two years later he had another wire removed from his tongue, but this one he did on his own!

It seems that he picked up a very small piece of wire in the field that worked its way into the base of the tongue, almost at the back of the throat. Like a porcupine quill the wire was not coming out on its own and the tongue was starting to get very infected and painful. He would not eat and he wasn't his usual teenage self!

It wasn't until an x-ray showed a small, thin metallic object that I was able to pinpoint the wires location in the tongue and with a bit of luck, a lot of sedation and a lidocaine tongue was I able to pull out the offending object with a good old needle nose plier.
Like a rabbit pulled out of a hat, I had performed a magic trick and couldn't believe it myself. By the next day he was eating again and back to his old ways. I wonder what he has in store for us next!

27/05/2024

We are very proud to have Weston Lougheed represent MMV at the B.C. High School Rodeo finals. He didn’t miss the opportunity to win “Rookie of the Year” and even qualified for the National Finals in team roping, goat tying and breakaway roping! This young man is a gentleman, natural athlete and even pulls in good grades….we enjoy watching him develop his skills and hope his father is busy framing a new room to hold all of his kids trophies🤗

24/05/2024

If you’ve ever had a hangnail you may know what this horse feels multiplied by a factor of 100! I suspect he got his leg caught in either wire or a board and pulled the top of the coronet band and hoof wall away as he tried to escape.
The anatomy of the pastern is mostly bone, tendon, ligaments and blood vessels . Luckily for him the tendons that run down the back (palmar) aspect of the pastern were unscathed and the wound was fairly superficial. The white tissue seen on the picture is the lateral cartilage of the hoof , (not bone )and is responsible for the flexibility of the heels as the hoof bears weight.
Normally I would place a hoof injury like this in a slipper cast to immobilize the heel and eliminate bandage changes but the horse was not the right candidate ( needs to be confined to a stall for 4 weeks ).
So with a very diligent owner and daily bandage changes you can see how the wound has progressed through the stages of healing and niw has a healthy bed of granulation tissue
With any luck the coronet band will be able to grow a new hoof wall and he should be sound to ride again

07/05/2024

The majority of a large animal vets work is done with a mad rush over the months of March to June. I can say that I’m looking forward to summer and longer days. Here are a few pics of what I’ve been up to over the past few weeks !

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Mastitis in a Freisian mare

A young mare had weaned her foal 2 months ago with no problem and suddenly she developed an unexplained high fever while at the trainers barn. While talking on the phone with the owner I asked them to look at the udder and sure enough she had an infection of the mammary gland (mastitis). In cattle this happens quite commonly but in a mare it is much less common and can be a very serious condition that can lead to sepsis. I quickly got to work installing a jugular catheter and starting her on a course of intravenous antibiotics and antiinflammatories. With hot compresses the affected gland softened and we were able to express the milk and pus from the teat. A sterile solution of antibiotic was also infused into the udder via the teat to treat the infection locally. A sample Of the milk was sent to the lab for bacterial culture and it showed a pure growth of Streptococcus zooepidemicus, a normal skin bacteria that had somehow gained entrance into the gland and subsequently the blood stream. This horse was fortunate to have been treated early and she responded well to the antibiotics over 7 days. By the time I returned in a week she was back to her mischevious self and no trace of an infection could be found. It’s not common for horses to get mastitis but it’s usually soon after they’ve weaned a foal and surface bacteria of the skin gain entrance through the teat into the udder. As the udder in mares is small and tucked up high in the flank it is often not noticed. The two month delay from weaning to the onset of mastitis in this mare is unusual as most symptoms occur soon after weaning. I suspect she may have had a small infection simmering that became a bigger infection once the stress of travelling and training weakened an immune system.

Pasture medication by dart gun

Cows on pasture or range that require antibiotic treatment (pinkeye, foot rot) are a problem when it comes to restraint. With an air powered dart gun the drug can be delivered from a safe distance without stressing the animal or causing further injury. The darts can hold a volume of around 10cc and is delivered in the neck muscle to avoid damage to tissue. A charge within the dart releases the medication as it penetrates the hide and after 10 min the dart will fall to the ground. Note that Dr Mulligan does not own a dart gun so please don’t ask to borrow !!! This specific dart gun is Pneu-dart. https://www.pneudart.com/.

Another great day at the Fall Fair in Barriere. Watching the action from above the bucking chutes and recording some interesting dismounts !

Magic Milk Fever

When a jersey cow becomes paralyzed shortly after calving one thing should enter your mind…milk fever. The name is misleading because it’s actually not an infection. Milk fever is a metabolic disease whereby the cows parathyroid hormone is unable to mobilize calcium from its bones or rumen to meet the demands of muscle contraction and nerve activity. The only calcium she can get into her body is from eating. Unfortunately cows don’t eat much around calving time and What little calcium she does have in her blood ends up in the udder for colostrum. Milk fever or Hypocalcemia is the end result. It occurs more commonly in older dairy cows and jerseys specifically. Without calcium the cow can slowly deteriorate over several hours until she passes away. One of the greatest pleasures in vet med is to get calcium into her vein before this happens. The result is miraculous as she will start to twitch , belch and fart within 20 min of calcium treatment and next thing you know she’s up and standing !! It never gets old no matter how many times you see this !

The hoof crack from hell has been a long journey for both horse and her owner. The following pictures will show the progression over this spring and summer starting with a therapeutic bar shoe, dremelling down to healthy laminae and placing an epoxy patch over top of the crack to stabilize the hoof wall. Along the way there has been some complications with infection and drainage but the progress has been slow and steady as the coronet band produces new hoof wall and will eventually 🤞grow out a healthy foot. Keep posted for follow up pictures and progress…

Free to a good home: Three barn cats that will keep your mouse and sheep population under control. Litter trained , recently dewormed and friendly as a hyena. Serious inquiries only please ! Cats can be viewed daily at 830 pm at the bottom of my driveway. No children please 😂

One day a week my wife Stacey joins me on the road for the days appointments. I’m very grateful for her help as she keeps me on time and even feeds me a cookie when I’m behaving 🤣

Video 4 of 4 Wrapping the hock : the finishing touch

Video 3 of 4 Wrapping the hock: secondary layers

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