Fuller Vet

12/09/2025

Day of dentals, wolf teeth, and oldies 🐴🦷🪥

09/09/2025

01/09/2025

This young horse has a permanent incisor erupting behind the baby tooth (deciduous incisor). If the baby tooth doesn’t come out on its own, we’ll need to remove it so the adult tooth has room to come in properly.

27/08/2025

Tips for keeping your farrier happy!

⭐Wherever you plan to tie up for farrier make this area safe and use it regularly. Pay attention to what the horse can see (i.e. other horses) and if the surface is suitable for shoeing or trimming (i.e. muddy is not ideal). The environment should be safe and relaxing for horse.

⭐If your horse is nervous make sure they can see at least one other horse. Or if this isn't enough, bring up a safe buddy while they are trimmed.

⭐ Bring up horse before farrier gets here so they can settle in. You could groom them or do basic ground work to help them relax.

⭐ Whenever handling your horses feet, make sure you do not accidently release for the incorrect response. If your horse grabs, slams or kicks foot it is important to not release at this moment as they will think this is the correct response. Be very careful to not confuse your horse.

⭐ Do not do anything while your farrier is lifting legs that could encourage your horse to sn**ch or kick. This could include taking a horse away from area where your horse could see it. Adding or removing food which can cause distraction. Try and look after your farrier as they are not always able to see why the horse is reacting.

⭐ Do basic ground work after the farrier has put down leg and is not needing to handle horse. This could include head down, leading forward and backward. This can help regulate a worried horse and also will allow the handler to read how anxious the horse is based on the responses from horse. You can reward these responses with lick or wither scratch.

⭐ Work on the behavioural issues with feet regularly, remember if you can teach a horse to be ridden in 6-8 weeks the feet issues should be sorted in 2-3 shoeings!

26/08/2025

26/08/2025

One young man is lighter 2 wolf teeth!

19/08/2025

Fun day at the Halswell ODE last weekend! When we aren't working, Bax and I enjoy hunting, trekking, and some eventing!

01/07/2025

This lil cutie will be feeling better. We didn't want to stress him out with a legthy photo shoot, however, got a nice picture of a clean periodontal pocket to share!

27/06/2025

Trying on the crush for size. We can even accommodate the little guys. Cheers to our little model Benji!

26/06/2025

Exciting times. We now have a crush that will soon be mobile. Duchess and her mom can attest to how handy this is for dentals!!!

09/06/2025

Had a great 2 days at the New Zealand Vet Conference in Wellington! Excited to continue learning to provide the best care possible for our four-legged friends!