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Charles Copenhaver, DVM Our practice is closed and we have retired 🎉 We offer the best care for your equine friends and I'm available any time I'm needed.
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Permanently closed.

Please schedule routine appointments 8am-6pm during the week. Emergency care is available anytime - I know your horse or pony doesn't know what time it is when he or she is feeling under the weather or has an accident. I'll return your call immediately after assisting the patient I'm currently with.

04/06/2024
04/06/2024
04/06/2024

❓💊𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁? Here's a helpful crib sheet for which non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs work best for specific types of discomfort in horses. >>>https://bit.ly/EQWhichNSAIDToUse

23/02/2024

What rider schooling a horse hasn’t noticed that some days seem better than others? "Better" can mean many things, calmer, steadier, more responsive to aids, more actively forward, less frantically forward, easier to keep balanced, lots of different ways of responding to the training that we think of as positive.

And what I have begun to realize is that old saying that “comparison is the thief of joy.”

By that I mean that if I start to question, “Why is he being like this today when he was so good just two days ago?” I am creating a slightly accusatory tone, maybe if only to a subtle extent, but that disappointment is there, and disappointment is a negative quality to hold when anyone is training a horse.

Why? Because of the ever so human and natural desire to fix it, to improve it, to get it back to the way it was two days ago.

And what is wrong with that? Don’t we train so that the horse DOES get better?

Yes, but not if we start to intensify the fix-it buttons by adding, perhaps, more pressure, more repetition, more urgency. Training well is a subtle dance between asking for some difference while tiptoeing along below the anxiety threshold of the horse.

So often if we had just been able to think, “He was better two days ago,” and leave it at that without asking the “WHY” we could have ended on a better note than by getting into any sort of contest, two days ago versus today?

Anyway, something to possibly consider if you find yourself in that situation---.

Super cute!
03/02/2024

Super cute!

04/01/2024

If you know the stages of normal wound healing you'll be better able to recognize when your horse's injury needs veterinary intervention. Here are the basics. >>>https://bit.ly/EQWoundHealing

19/08/2023

This Paint baby is really outstanding

19/08/2023

Look at that mane!!! 😜😍😍 So proud of you Matt Mills, 221.5 for STOPPING IN JERSEY!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!! 🤗👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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