Teton Equine Mobile Veterinary Practice

11/07/2024

SPECIAL ALERT! For the month of November, Shockwave therapy will be 25% off! Shockwave is a non-invasive treatment that uses high energy sound waves to stimulate healthy, pro-healing, anti-pain inflammation into specific joint or soft tissue areas. This therapy is proven to help speed up the healing time for soft tissue injuries such as tendon injuries or muscle injuries and hard tissue conditions such as arthritis, kissing spines, or neck/back pain. Shockwave can also be used to keep your performance horse healthy and happy as a form of routine maintenance. Call for more information or to schedule today! Call or text today to schedule your appointment! (208) 881-7753.

11/01/2024

Ask us about our F***l Float special for the month of November!!! Running f***ls to check for parasites at a discounted rate for the month of November!! Call or text us at (208) 881-7753. Remember....If you don't check you don't know! And if your horse does not have worms then you could be wasting your money deworming all your horses annually, biannually etc.!! Text or call us at (208) 881-7753 to schedule a manure drop off soon!

10/31/2024

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM ALL OF US AT TETON EQUINE!!! Anyone knoe whats going on here? No it's not a "googley eye" in the spirit of Halloween.

This is actually a picture of a patient who luxated (displaced) their lens within their eye. The lens is the part of the eyeball that is responsible for our focus. The lens is like our built in magnifying glass. It allows us to see near and far objects. The lens job is to stay in alignment with the pupil and project an image of the object we are focusing on to the back of the eye (the retina) which then sends the message to the brain thru a nerve at the back of the eye called the optic nerve! Typically it is very hard to visualize the lens (this disc like structure at the back of the eye). However, because this horse luxated it's lens you can actually see the lens structure is sitting through the pupil and to the left. This is a rare condition to have in horses and can result in blindness.

It's important to remember that horses can't talk to us and tell us what's wrong. Therefore, if they are acting spooky or their behavior seems off or abnormal on one side or another it may be a behavior that has developed due to decreased or poor vision (among other possibilities) but sometimes this is the first sign we notice. If you have noticed any abnormal behaviors in your horse, chat with our doctors today. Call or text (208) 881-7753.

10/30/2024

This is a patient of ours that fractured one of his premolars. Once identified, we immediately extracted the fractured molar because if it's not removed, it serves as a nidus for infection and results in significant discomfort to the horse. Fractured teeth are very painful in horses as they are in humans. They can result in pain,"bad" behavior, bit avoidance, weight loss, or eventually cause the horse to become mouth or head shy. Additionally, because horse molars are so tightly interlocked in horses, if the infected tooth is left untreated, the infection can fester and migrate from one tooth root to the next eventually compromising the entire arcade.

10/29/2024

Temperatures dropping means winter is coming! Are you ready?

Dr. Morgan will be staying in Idaho this winter to take care of the clients and horses that choose to brave the cold temperatures. Dr. Abby will be headed to Wickenburg in December to look after all of our warmer weather folks!

With temperatures dropping and impending travel, now is the perfect time to booster the flu/rhino vaccine. This vaccine covers the two most common respiratory diseases in horses. Just like in humans, flu season for horses is approaching and travel and cold temps lower the immune system’s ability to fight these diseases. For horses traveling or around horses that are traveling, it is recommended to vaccinate against flu/rhino every 6 months. While we are here, let’s make sure your horse’s coggins is ready to go for the year! Call or text now to schedule your fall shots!

10/28/2024

Can anyone guess what this is??

These are strongyle eggs. It is a parasite egg that is found in the manure of horses. At very low doses, it is not always recommended to deworm you horse as they do not hurt your horse and frequent deworming can result in dewormer resistance (similar to antibiotic resistance).

However, if present in higher concentrations, we do recommend deworming your horse with a dewormer specific to the types of eggs present. We will select a specific dewormer that will target the types of parasites we know are present and producing the eggs in the sample.

The gold standard is to perform what is called a f***l float on your horses manure 1-2 times each year to determine if your horse has any parasites at all, and if so, what parasites may be present. This will also help us to decide which dewormer should be used to most effectively target and kill the parasites in the GI tract.

Remember, not all dewormers kill ALL parasites. If you are interested in having a f***l float performed on your horse, all we need is a fresh manure sample consisting of a couple fresh f***l balls. If you cannot bring the sample in right away, please keep in a cooler of sorts as it is recommended the sample should stay refrigerated until it can be evaluated. We recommend the sample be no more than 24 hours old.

Call or text us for pricing and to set up your horses f***l float today! (208) 881-7753.

10/06/2024

Dr. Abby Matthaeus got to attend a veterinary conference this weekend and play around with equine simulators and real horses this weekend. The conference involved injecting all sorts of joints via ultrasound guidance. Joints ranging from the neck, back, hip, SI, elbow and shoulder joints. These injections are some of the most complex injections that we do and some of the more rare (yet important when needed) joint injections in horses. Veterinary conferences like these are a great way for us to stay up to date on the newest technologies and most advanced treatments and diagnostics. This allows us to provide our equine patients with the highest standard of veterinary care possible. At Teton Equine Veterinary Practice we feel that continued education is important as we strive to improve offer our equine friends the best possible care we can!

10/04/2024

Dr. Abby is attending a specialized veterinary conference in Seattle this weekend regarding ultrasound guided complex injections! At Teton Equine Vet, it’s extremely important for us to stay up to date on the newest and most advanced treatments and technologies in regards to equine sports medicine and lameness. Therefore, we can provide our patients with the highest quality and most optimal form of care.

This veterinary conference focuses specifically on advanced ultrasound guided injections of the equine neck, back, hip, shoulder, elbow joint, tendinous structures and other complex joints. These educational conferences allow us to provide our patients with the best possible care out there!

10/03/2024

Dr. Morgan and Dr. Abby collaborating on a difficult lameness case and performing an ultrasonographic examination of the flexor tendons on this horse.

09/23/2024

Teton Equine veterinary practice is looking to hire on an office manager!! The position would consist of answering phones, scheduling, client communication, and human relations. Therefore, it would be preferable to hire someone that is outgoing, hard working, responsible, reliable and great with people as our clients and patients are our utmost priority! Additionally, it is also preferable that the applicant is comfortable handling and working with horses as we may ask for assistance with veterinary work at times. If you, or someone you know is interested, please feel free to reach out and email us a copy of your resume! Because we figured who better to ask than our horsey friends! Email Address: [email protected].

09/23/2024

A miracle story and another reason we don’t give up on our patients! ♥️ this is a horse despite all odds was able to pull through. She just needed an owner that loved her and the veterinarians at Teton Equine who believed in her giving her a chance!

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09/19/2024

Working on a gentle giant today and giving him some loves and itches!

09/11/2024

Dr. Morgan giving a couple smaller 4 legged visitors some love!

09/08/2024

For those of you who have never seen an equine fetus on an ultrasound before! This is one of the mares we artificially inseminated this year. By 60 days of gestation we are able to make out a little horse body. In this video you can see the that the fetus is laying on its back with the head being slightly out of view and to the left of the screen and the tail on the right of the screen. At 60 days the fetus is only the size of a hamster but much of the anatomy is already there and developing function!

Remember to get your mares that are in foal vaccinated with the pneumabort vaccine at 5,7, and 9 months of gestation to guard against abortion storms caused by the equine herpes virus! And 30-45 days prior to foaling we also recommend vaccinating your mare for all diseases and deworming her. This way she passes on the antibodies and immunity she creates from the vaccines onto her foal! Deworming her will also help to protect your foal against parasites that may be passed on from mom as well! Shoot us text with your email and let us know if you would like us to send you a fully detailed list of all the important recommendations for your mare and newborn foal along with more important details to be sure to know about the foaling process. This include important information to know during pregnancy both before and after she foals out. This information will help to ensure that you end up with a healthy and happy mare and foal!

09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day From Teton Equine!!!!! 🐴

08/30/2024

This patient of ours is a bit of a miracle story! She completely ruptured her gastrocneimius tendon preventing her from being able to support her weight on her hind leg without her hock dropping to the ground. Therefore, we ordered in a special boot that acts similar to a cast and helps support the leg. This boot will remain on for the remainder of her rehabilitation so the gastrocnemius can be supported to heal adequately and in the correct position.The boot has 4 different settings ranging from no mobility (acting in place of a cast) to different levels of restricted mobility (level 1-4). As you can see, she is much happier with the Tendon Pro Boot on. Although it will be a long road, her owner is extremely diligent and is in school to pursue a career in the medical field so this lucky mare has the best care we could ask for and we expect her to make a full recovery!

08/21/2024

Is this mini a celebrity some might ask? Or does he just like to roll in style? Regardless he’s cute and he sure attracts a lot of attention! This special little patient came to visit us this week and he sure put a smile on all of our faces! 😍