Foundation Equine Clinic

02/03/2025

ALL attendees will receive a coupon for a F***L EGG COUNT at Foundation Equine Clinic! 🐎 🔬 💩

RSVP to Liz Joseph by tomorrow!

Preventative Care & Deworming: Educational Talk with Foundation Equine Clinic

Date & Time: Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 6:30 PM

RSVP: Email [email protected]
📍Free Admission

Location: Volunteer Pavilion, Carolina Horse Park (Indoor location TBD if weather is chilly)

Join us for an informative evening with Dr. Emma Poole of Foundation Equine Clinic as we delve into the essential topics of preventative care and deworming for your equine partners. This educational talk is perfect for horse owners, caretakers, and enthusiasts eager to learn more about maintaining their horse’s health year-round.
Dr. Poole will provide insights into effective care routines, discuss current deworming protocols, and answer questions to help you ensure your horse stays happy and healthy.

🗓 Save the Date! This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from an expert in the field, so don’t miss out!

Photography:

01/31/2025

We wanted to take this beautiful Friday to publicly introduce another valuable staff member who has been added to our team!

Everyone meet Leah, one of our veterinary assistants!

Leah is originally from California but has actually lived in 11 different states! She has extensive experience in both English and Western riding, and at one point even led guided trail rides through the Grand Canyon and Glacier National Park.

Leah’s observant and kind nature helps even the most nervous patient relax when in her care. ❤️

She has a particular interest in equine sports medicine and rehabilitation and can usually be found riding in Dr. Poole’s truck, assisting with performance cases. 🐎

Fun fact – at one point she was a heavy equipment operator (which makes maneuvering around in the big vet truck a piece of cake 😄).

In her spare time Leah enjoys riding her two horses Flight and Hobbes (Hobbes has lived in 7 of 11 states with her!), as well as spending time with her cat and two dogs. She is also currently renovating an 18th century farmhouse under the supervision of her four legged family members🏠

01/24/2025

Come join us on Feb 6th at the horse park!

Preventative Care & Deworming: Educational Talk with Foundation Equine Clinic

Date & Time: Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 6:30 PM

RSVP: Email [email protected]
📍Free Admission

Location: Volunteer Pavilion, Carolina Horse Park (Indoor location TBD if weather is chilly)

Join us for an informative evening with Dr. Emma Poole of Foundation Equine Clinic as we delve into the essential topics of preventative care and deworming for your equine partners. This educational talk is perfect for horse owners, caretakers, and enthusiasts eager to learn more about maintaining their horse’s health year-round.
Dr. Poole will provide insights into effective care routines, discuss current deworming protocols, and answer questions to help you ensure your horse stays happy and healthy.

🗓 Save the Date! This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from an expert in the field, so don’t miss out!

Photography:

01/20/2025

Good Morning!!!
It may be COLD 🥶 but our hearts are WARM ❤️ as we welcome back our fearless leader-from-afar, Mackinzie!!! 🎉

As many of you know, Mackinzie welcomed her second child, Walker, 6 weeks ago! She’s spent the last 6 weeks enjoying him full-time and is (gently) rejoining the team today! 🍾🙌

(Don’t worry 🤣 Mackinzie works from her home in Indiana and has family helping her with both of her beautiful babies whenever she’s taking your calls and answering your messages! Walker has his mom right nearby!)

Mackinzie will be on phones and messages to help with whatever you need from 9am-12pm every day, and 8am-3pm on Tuesday!
Our second fabulous CSR, Cait, is also available during these times, and when Mackinzie is out!

Please give Mackinzie a big “welcome back!” in the comments and let her know just how amazing she is! ❤️❤️❤️

12/11/2024

🫢 Know that feeling of being at a party and realizing, awkwardly, that you forgot to introduce your friends to each other? 🤦‍♀️🤣

Well, here we are folks.
Many of you know that we added an amazing registered veterinary technician, Cait, to our team in June. We've been working hard to keep up with the growth of our team and we could have done a better job with introductions!

Cait is now half of our customer service team, working alongside the powerhouse Mackinzie to keep all of our clients' and patients' needs organized and met!

Cait grew up in upstate New York and has been an animal lover from the very beginning. She started competing in a local eventing barn at a young age and spent most of her high school career working at the local zoo and a small animal hospital. She eventually went on to get her AAS in Veterinary Technology and BS in Equine Science with a concentration in breeding. Cait passed the VTNE, becoming a LVT in 2013 and has spent time in many different fields of veterinary medicine throughout her career.

Cait made the move from NY to NC in 2023 with her husband, young daughter, and a collection of different pets. In her spare time, Cait enjoys spending time with her family and working with her two horses.

Please join us in *publicly* welcoming Cait!

If you've had a great experience with her so far, please thank her in the comments! She's working hard right now to keep everything on track (and we'll explain more in an another upcoming "introduction" 😉)!

10/10/2024

♻️ Did you know???♻️
We teamed up with Matthews this year to bring RECYCLING to the Carolina Horse Park!
We love the Horse Park, and we love caring for our community and environment, so this was an easy choice!
The cans are located near the bathrooms, and next to the drink machine!

📣 NOW- LISTEN UP! 👂
*Some* of y'all need a reminder on what IS and IS NOT recyclable! ✋ 🤣

While we love you all, and applaud your efforts (seriously, we are grateful that people are participating), our staff (and Nancy) have to sort the bins to take items to a nearby site. PLEASE help us out and follow this guide:

👍✔️ YES to:
- clean glass
- clean plastic bottles and jugs
- clean aluminum

✋🛑 NO to:
- paper
- napkins
- batteries
- disposable cups (Starbuck's cups, plastic cups, Solo cups)
- plastic straws
- Styrofoam
- anything with food on it
- anything that is NOT glass, plastic, or aluminum!

We appreciate your help, and please consider sharing this with your friends who frequent the park!

10/09/2024

All of our clients know and love Kelli, our fantastic vet assistant, inventory manager, and jack-of-all trades.
Many of you also know about her work with Large Animal Services, LLC and her dedication to large animal technical emergency rescue.
Some of you may have noticed that she's been absent from appointments quite a bit in the last two weeks, or that she's been a little tired when you have seen her.

Kelli has been splitting her time between us and the NC Mountains, assisting with many aspects of relief efforts in some of the heaviest-hit areas. Along with 4Hooves, Training and Response, and so many other helpers and organizations, she is making a difference in the lives of the people and animals who need it so much.

We were most thankful to have Kelli available to help with the rescue of a large herd of horses from Black Mountain. These are horses that Kelli knows well from their time here in the Sandhills, and being able to send a familiar face to assist with the effort was an honor.

If you see Kelli this week or next- please join us in thanking her for her incredibly hard work (and if you don't see Kelli, please bear with us while we work through our appointments a little more slowly without our super-assistant)!

08/08/2024

🗓️ Next month, Dr. Emma Poole will be speaking to a group of veterinarians about her experiences using newer injectable therapies for equine joint disease.
💉She’ll be part of a fantastic panel and is looking forward to sharing her passion for new knowledge and advancing patient care options!
🙌 Please join us in congratulating her on this honor!

👇Do you have questions about equine joint health? Drop them in the comments!

05/24/2024

❤️❤️FOAL FRIDAY! ❤️❤️

Can you even STAND the cuteness??
This palomino ball of fluff was born over the weekend and passed all his new foal exams with flying colors!

His owners named him “Dusty,” and he’s a once-in-a-lifetime dream breeding for his dam, who was also a homebred!

Who recognizes the breed? 🤩

04/22/2024

Spring is here, which means longer days and more time in the saddle! 😎🌞

Chiropractic care is a great way to keep your horse comfortable, whether you're headed to a show or taking your senior out for a hack on the Moss Foundation.

Give us a call to get on Dr. Poole's schedule this spring!
Happy Riding! 🥰

04/11/2024

🏇 Are you headed to the Carolina Horse Park for the Longleaf Pine Horse Trials? Do you have newly-acquired Foundation Equine swag? IF SO- don't forget to rock your t-shirt, saddle pad, bonnet, hat, or vest and tag us in a photo with it!

🥇 The winner of our first drawing will get to choose from free x-rays, free chiropractic care, free dentistry, and more! At the end of the year, one lucky winner will get a FREE 2025 Performance Wellness Plan!

🎫 A tagged photo (or video) is your entry! (PLEASE make it public so we are sure to see it).
Additional info in the comments!

04/02/2024

Have we mentioned lately how much we love teaching? ❤️

Say hello to soon-to-be-Dr. O’Donnell! Kerry is an upcoming 2024 graduate from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine & Veterinary Hospital. We’ve had the pleasure of hosting Kerry several times over the last few years, and this one is bittersweet since she’ll be headed to Ocala to join The Equine Medical Center of Ocala for the 2024-2025 year!

We’ve had several students over the past few months, and they have all been *amazing!* Thank you to all our friends and clients who make them feel welcomed and supported! YOU are helping to guarantee the future of equine veterinary medicine!

03/29/2024

🤩We had a great start to the day today, meeting this beautiful new arrival!

Congratulations to Mary Grantham-Cook on the birth of this stunning filly by Chin Quidam VDL out of the TB Black Susie! ❤️

03/26/2024

⭐❓TUESDAY TRIVIA!!! ❓⭐
Test your equine vet knowledge! 🩺

This video is from a recent gastroscopy (stomach scoping)! What do you see? Do you think it's a problem? What should we do about it? 😁

Answer will be posted tomorrow!

03/19/2024

03/13/2024

👏💖Appreciation Post!!! 💖👏
We're excited to share with you another of our "Original Patients!"

Foundation Equine is ten years old now, and we're thrilled to have had some of our patients in our care since day one!

Today Meet: DA Clint Eastwood!!! 🙌

🐴 Clint is a gorgeous 21 year old Arabian gelding with impeccable breeding, but what gets us is his hilarious personality! Clint loves to "snarfle" our boots at most visits, and becomes a total clown if you stop scratching him when he's enjoying it! Check out these "then-and-now" photos of him with Kelli - last week, and ten years ago! Clint is a nonstop clown and enjoys such shenanigans as "I'm going to bolt the minute my halter is off," and "watch me run around in the field like a thoroughbred yearling until I'm lathered head-to-toe and giving you a heart attack because I have arthritis."

⌛Fun Fact! Dr. Kivett has known Clint longer than any other patient in the practice! Not because he's an "original," but because they met in 2006 when Dr. Kivett just happened to be a vet student visiting the practice that was performing Clint's pre-purchase for his current owner! They go back 18 years! (That was a fun conversation- "hey, I think I've heard this horse's name before! 🤔

So here's to Clint!!!! Our favorite puppy dog! 🐶

03/07/2024

😬 OOPS! Yesterday we posted pics of our fun swag for the “Show Us Your Show Horse Social Media Challenge” and we FORGOT THE T SHIRTS! 🤣🤩

👚So check these out- Foundation Equine Tees- and they’re those Bella Canvas ones so they’re super comfy! We have men’s and women’s, various sizes and cuts, and several shades of gray. We even have some that are apparently for tiny sized adults or larger kids because the sizing in one type is a bit insulting to the majority of us 🤣

Thanks again to our always-game model, Kelli!

Here are the rules for the challenge again!

📸 Starting NOW, share a photo or video of you and your horse, at a show or other public event, on Facebook or Instagram and tag us! Your first post wins you your choice of available Foundation Equine gear!
📸 Post a photo or video of you and your horse at a show or public event WITH your new gear, and earn an entry into our monthly, quarterly, and yearly drawings! Each post is another entry!

🎁Here’s what you can win!
Grand Prize: (drawing in December) – a 2025 Performance Wellness Plan! (link to details) – an approximately $1,200 value! This covers ALL your horse’s recommended preventive care for the year, as well as soundness exams, chiropractic assessments and adjustments, free imaging credits, and health certificates!
Quarterly prizes: Your choice of- An emergency tote with all your needed emergency vet care items, a free set of podiatry radiographs, free soundness exam, free comprehensive dentistry package, free chiropractic assessment/adjustment, or- we’ll buy your show photos for you! (all prizes range from $100-$300 value)! We may even add new items to choose from throughout the year!
We’ll also have monthly drawings for your choice of additional swag items!
Winners will be announced on social media AND contacted directly- so you won’t miss it!

📝Rules:
- One entry post, per horse/rider combination, per event
- “Event” is defined as: a show (rated or schooling, doesn’t matter!), CDE, clinic, public schooling day, group trail ride, endurance ride, fox hunt, or basically anything “out there!” If you think it should qualify, it probably does!
- To participate, you must be an active client (we’ve seen you for a routine care visit within the last 6-12 months. (Reach out if you’re not sure!)

Happy Show Season!!

03/06/2024

🔥Check out Kelli modelling some of our gear available to win in our "Show Us Your Show Horse Social Media Challenge!" 🔥

📸 Starting NOW, share a photo or video of you and your horse, at a show or other public event, on Facebook or Instagram and tag us! Your first post wins you your choice of available Foundation Equine gear!
📸 Post a photo or video of you and your horse at a show or public event WITH your new gear, and earn an entry into our monthly, quarterly, and yearly drawings! Each post is another entry!

🎁Here’s what you can win!
Grand Prize: (drawing in December) – a 2025 Performance Wellness Plan! (link to details) – an approximately $1,200 value! This covers ALL your horse’s recommended preventive care for the year, as well as soundness exams, chiropractic assessments and adjustments, free imaging credits, and health certificates!
Quarterly prizes: Your choice of- An emergency tote with all your needed emergency vet care items, a free set of podiatry radiographs, free soundness exam, free comprehensive dentistry package, free chiropractic assessment/adjustment, or- we’ll buy your show photos for you! (all prizes range from $100-$300 value)! We may even add new items to choose from throughout the year!
We’ll also have monthly drawings for your choice of additional swag items!
Winners will be announced on social media AND contacted directly- so you won’t miss it!

📝Rules:
- One entry post, per horse/rider combination, per event
- “Event” is defined as: a show (rated or schooling, doesn’t matter!), CDE, clinic, public schooling day, group trail ride, endurance ride, fox hunt, or basically anything “out there!” If you think it should qualify, it probably does!
- To participate, you must be an active client (we’ve seen you for a routine care visit within the last 6-12 months. (Reach out if you’re not sure!)

Happy Show Season!!