Bend Equine Medical Center

12/13/2024

Announcing our first Client Education Seminar of the Winter--coming up next week!

Please join us next Wednesday evening, December 18th at 6:30 here at the clinic to meet our new veterinarian, Dr. Hunter Greer, and to hear her discuss the importance of practical biosecurity measures for your horses, and how you can implement them to avoid infectious disease.

The information Dr. Greer will be presenting is great for trainers, owners of boarding facilities, show managers, and for horse owners who just want to keep their own horses as safe as they can from infectious disease.

We will have holiday snacks and refreshments for your enjoyment!

Please RSVP via phone or email to let us know you'll be coming.

[email protected]

541-388-4006

Upcoming Client Education Seminars:

*Wednesday, December 18th at 6:30 pm--Dr. Hunter Greer will discuss biosecurity measures you can take to keep your horses and your facility safe.

*Wednesday, January 22nd at 6:30 pm--Drs. Sarbry, Hoffman and Jensen will present on equine emergencies and introduce you to methods of technical large animal emergency rescue.

*Wednesday, February 12th at 6:30 pm--Dr. Shannon Findley will discuss how you can optimize your equine's nutrition program, avoid deficiencies and excesses (and probably save money while you're doing it).

12/02/2024

And just like that, it's December! Brrrrrrr... it's definitely time to move our dentals inside the clinic and activate our Winter Dental Discount.

To make both your horses' lives and our veterinarians' lives better, we offer $45 off each dental float/balance performed in the warmth and comfort of our clinic for the months of December, January and February. Email or call to reserve your spot!

BEMC is committed to providing exceptional equine health care with unparalleled compassion and superi

11/28/2024

We want to take a moment to let you know how thankful we are to have clients like you. We wish you and your family nothing but the best this Thanksgiving and throughout the holiday season.

We will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28 and 29, so our staff can celebrate Thanksgiving with families and friends.

As always, we are available around the clock for equine emergencies. If you call for an emergency, please follow the prompt to reach our answering service, which will put you in touch with our on-call team. *Please note: If you leave a voicemail, we will not receive it until Monday, Dec. 2, when we return.*

11/27/2024

Mark your calendars for our Winter Client Continuing Education lecture series!

*Wednesday, December 18th at 6:30 pm--Dr. Hunter Greer will discuss biosecurity measures you can take to keep your horses and your facility safe

*Wednesday, January 22nd at 6:30 pm--Drs. Sarbry, Hoffman and Jensen will present on equine emergencies and introduce you to methods of technical large animal emergency rescue

*Wednesday, February 12th at 6:30 pm--Dr. Shannon Findley will discuss how you can optimize your equine's nutrition program, avoid deficiencies and excesses (and probably save money while you're doing it)

More information to come, and please remember to RSVP via [email protected]

11/26/2024

Meet Moondoggy, the sweetest little Warm Springs mustang and the current title holder for the largest sand and rock impaction we have ever treated!

Moondoggy came to us in late October for colic symptoms. Radiographs of his abdomen showed a large accumulation of what we thought was sand. We treated him assertively with medical therapy (IV fluids, pain control and laxatives) to resolve his impaction, but Moondoggy was not able to pass the material on his own so we ultimately had to take him to colic surgery.

Imagine Dr. Krebs' expression during surgery when she reached in and palpated the largest sand and gravel impaction of her career so far! Somehow Moondoggy had managed to accumulate over 50 lbs. of not just sand, but large chunks of gravel. It all had to be removed via an incision in his large colon pelvic flexure, bit by bit, with the help of hoses introduced into his colon and a lot of sweat on the surgeon's part.
See the video in the comments!

Many of you will wonder why a horse would ingest so much sand and gravel, which is a great question. In Moondoggy's case, he has been very well cared for since his adoption, with a great diet, Platinum Wellness vitamin and mineral supplements, and had seemed to be in great health. It is possible that he accumulated the material prior to his adoption. Fortunately, Platinum's Colic Coverage helped quite a bit with Moondoggy's surgery bills. Moondoggy is now at home and recovering very well.

The most effective prevention measure for sand colic is feeding out of troughs and on mats to avoid horses incidentally ingesting sand as they try to get every last bit of hay. We don't recommend sand for paddocks or anywhere a horse is fed for this reason as well. Monthly treatment with psyllium products can be useful as well.

11/19/2024

CASE STUDY: After a trailer accident, this 8-year-old horse received NSAIDs and antibiotic ointment. After just 4 back-to-back Phovia applications, the epithelization was “impressive” according to the treating veterinarian.

11/14/2024

Our sweet clinic kitty, Annie, is missing. Please let us know if you have seen her.

Please spread the word for this lost cat. Annie was LOST on November 13, 2024 in Deschutes County, OR 97703 near Hwy 20/Couch Market Rd

Message from Owner: Please keep your eye out for Bend Equine's beloved Annie cat.

Description: All grey kitty.

For more info or to contact Annie's owner, click here: https://www.pawboost.com/p/70976481

Lost or found a pet? Report it to PawBoost here: https://www.pawboost.com/l/rpl

11/12/2024

Bend Equine is excited to offer Phovia Fluorescent Light Therapy to help speed healing in horses with dermatological conditions including:

Open or traumatic wounds
Scratches
Post-surgery incisions

Learn more about Phovia!

[ Click-thru URL: https://phoviausa.com ]

11/05/2024

We are excited to offer Phovia Fluorescent Light Therapy to help speed healing in horses with dermatological conditions like:

Lacerations
Chronic wounds
Scratches
Post-surgery incisions
Summer sores
Learn more about Phovia!

Treatments are only once per week, with excellent improvements in healing time, reduction of infections, and reduced scarring.
[ Click-thru URL: https://phoviausa.com ]

10/26/2024

While our main mission is to provide exceptional care to our patients, for over 23 years now, we've had another very important mission--training tomorrow's equine veterinarians.

Many of you have heard that equine veterinarians are becoming a bit of an endangered species, with fewer and fewer veterinarians choosing this profession each year. Sadly, even fewer able to maintain it long term due to its many challenges compared to small animal veterinary medicine.

We want to do all that we can to show veterinary students and young veterinarians that this can be a wonderful profession, and help them make a successful, mentored entry into all that it has to offer.

To that end, every year we welcome many veterinary students, usually in their final year of study, to gain some practical experience observing our team in action.

We also welcome two veterinary interns in mid June of every year, who have graduated from veterinary school, are fully licensed, and are carefully mentored for a 12 month program while they rapidly grow in their knowledge and skillsets.

When you encounter these fresh energetic humans at the clinic or on farm calls, please help us show them why working with equines and their humans is truly the best profession of all, and help us ensure that you will have equine veterinarians available to you for many years to come!

10/23/2024

This sweet little guy came in to see us on an emergency basis in late August with a very unwelcome hitchhiker--a large stick.

Roy hadn't come up for dinner, and so his owners went looking for him and found that he had somehow managed to impale himself on a large stick. Their local veterinarian examined Roy and because of the medically perilous position of the stick near both the thoracic and abdominal cavities, he decided it would be safer to send him up to Bend for the removal in case Roy needed advanced support or surgery.

When Roy arrived, we were able to stabilize him and determine with our exam and ultrasound that the stick had penetrated his rib cage near the diaphragm, which separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities. He was not showing evidence of pneumothorax (a "sucking chest wound"), but we were prepared for immediate anesthesia and positive pressure ventilation if needed. Roy was sedated and the stick was removed in a controlled manner with sterile surgical vice grips.

The wound tract was then investigated using endoscopy and it was determined that it entered the abdominal cavity but not the chest cavity. While the stick had literally poked him in the spleen, and he had a significant case of peritonitis (infection of the abdominal cavity), Roy responded well to a prolonged course of wound care, antibiotics and pain medication, and went back home, where he's doing great!

If you want to see the video of the stick removal, look in the comments!

10/21/2024

Meet Ditto, one of our favorite long term patients! Ditto is 27 years young--doesn't he truly look amazing?

Dr. Krebs surgically removed a large bladder stone from him over a decade ago, and he has been the picture of health since then. He gets annual dentals, still has all his teeth, still eats a normal hay diet, and is shiny and spry.

We love the payoff that annual preventive care early in their lives provides for our senior patients in their golden years!

10/19/2024

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Hunter Greer to Central Oregon and Bend Equine Medical Center!

Dr. Greer grew up in Texas, where her family owned and operated a 50-horse equestrian center that served more than 200 clients. That early exposure to horse management led her into a veterinary medicine career. She graduated Cum laude with her veterinary degree from Texas A&M University, in College Station, in 2020, and recently completed a three-year American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)-accredited residency at University of Georgia (UG), in Athens. During her residency, Dr. Greer supervised and taught veterinary students, contributed to research, and saw a wide variety of large-animal internal medicine cases admitted to the university. Although the program focuses on internal medicine, UG residents also cross train in emergency and critical care.

Dr. Greer especially enjoys the problem-solving veterinary internal medicine requires. Her specific clinical interests include equine cardiology, as well as gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases. She also has experience working on small ruminant internal medicine cases.

In her new role at BEMC, Dr. Greer will provide internal medicine, geriatric care, and emergency care. She is also available for equine and small ruminant referral cases and consultations.

When not at the hospital, Dr. Greer enjoys hiking, camping, road trips, and spending time with family, friends, and her dog, Mo. She is also a diehard Texas A&M fan.

10/18/2024

Our amazing team has (as usual) been rolling with the punches through a busy week, showing ingenuity, resiliency, humor, compassion for our patients and clients, utilizing their remarkably broad skill sets, and supporting one another as they literally save lives.

We are glad to have been able to celebrate them this week with some special treats and even managed to escape to some surprisingly competitive bowling at Lava Lanes!

You guys are the bomb and 200% make the Bend Equine world go ‘round! 🦄🙏💞

10/17/2024

This may look like a beautiful geological treasure, but in fact it was a real pain for one of our patients, who is feeling much better now that it's on the outside and not the inside.

Who can tell us what it is, and what factors are thought to predispose to its formation?

10/16/2024

Oh me, oh my...can you tell us what this is, which age of horse is likely to be affected by it, and how we can detect and then treat for it? 🤢

10/14/2024

Are you looking to be efficient and economical in providing top notch preventive care for your boarders or your own sizable herd?

Check out our Barn Day program, which offer significant discounts on dental floats for 5 or more horses and the peace of mind of knowing that your entire herd is all caught up on their preventive care needs.

We can also provide Coggins testing, health certificates, wellness bloodwork panels, and vaccinations all at the same time.

Call or email us to let us know how we can help meet your needs!