Country Animal Hospital

02/15/2025

02/12/2025

Country Animal Hospital is open for business today !!!

Hope everyone was safe on the “snow day!”

Call 502-267-7444 for an appointment.

02/11/2025

Excellent advice.

But don’t forget that horses get fit with long, consistent, walks as well !

Interval training is a really effective way to work your horse, whether you compete or not.

👉🏻 It saves times! ⌛
👉 Burns calories! 🐽
👉 Builds fitness! 🏇🏿
👉 Reduces the risk of injury! 🤕
👉 Adds variety to a horse's workload! 👏

When getting a horse fit, they are only able to maintain intense levels of activity for a short period before needing a period of recovery.

Interval training works by the horse doing repeated spells of exercise combined with periods of partial recovery where the horse is allowed to slow down and almost recover their pre-work pulse rate, before going on to the next interval of faster work.

It also develops the horse’s respiratory and circulatory systems. The heart is able to pump more blood around the body, providing the muscles with oxygen more efficiently and delaying the onset of the anaerobic phase.

“Interval training is designed to strengthen the horse’s muscles and cardio-respiratory system through a gradual increase in exercise intensity,” explains vet and racehorse trainer Dr Jeremy Naylor.

Most importantly, interval training can be effective for any type of horse — and it's good fun too!

Read the full article via the link below:

https://www.yourhorse.co.uk/fit-not-fat/interval-training-how-to/

02/11/2025

Country Animal Hospital will be closed today due to weather.

If you have a veterinary medical issue today, please reach out to Veterinary Specialist Partners- VSP in Middletown, or Metropolitan Veterinary Specialists in Jeffersontown.

Be safe !!

02/10/2025

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Meetings Are Free of Charge

02/07/2025

Excellent information on recovery of horses.

Equine surgeon Dr. Larry Bramlage says the type and length of turnout a horse gets when healing makes a crucial difference: https://bit.ly/4gpsMnT

01/31/2025

Pretty clever 🥰

Just a reminder, we love your cats, too, at Country Animal Hospital .

Book a physical exam / update vaccine appointment for your Feline Valentine at 502-267-7444.

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01/21/2025

Chip wants to be sure that ALL animals have safe place to bed down in this weather with access to unfrozen water.

If outside animals, heated buckets/troughs, or frequently taking warm water to the animal & being sure they drink.

Electrolytes are needed as well for livestock/ horses / goats / sheep.

Plenty of free choice grass hay for horses & cattle.

If you have dogs and cats, BRING THEM INSIDE.

It is TOO COLD to have “ outside dogs. “

01/16/2025

“Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions.”
Dean Koontz - The Darkest Evening of the Year.

Amy Kathrine Browning - Lime Tree Shade,1913.

01/07/2025

Country Animal Hospital will be closed today to keep our employees and clients safe during inclement weather.

We recommend Veterinary Specialists Partners Urgent Care if your pet needs to be seen for an illness.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Be safe everyone!

01/07/2025

Meanwhile, in Louisville Kentucky……

01/01/2025

Proud to say we follow the forward thinking of safe anesthesia, including having a dedicated person to monitor all anesthetic procedures ( and we’ve been doing it for 8 yrs now ).