Watermark Equine

29/03/2025

We are so excited to congratulate Maya on becoming part of the Penn Vet class of 2029! We know she is going to make a wonderful equine veterinarian!

05/03/2025

Watermark Equine is excited to welcome Dr. Shannon Finnegan to the team!
Dr. Finnegan hails from Ontario, Canada. Growing up she was an avid 3 day eventer, competing up to the 2* level and grooming for a prominent Canadian Team rider. Prior to veterinary school, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Guelph, and spent a year in Kentucky participating in equine exercise physiology and nutrition research. She graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 2023, with distinction. She then completed an equine medicine and surgery internship at Moore Equine in Calgary, Alberta, followed by a sports medicine fellowship at Miller & Associates in New York. Her veterinary special interests include sports medicine, internal medicine and emergency work. When she’s not working she enjoys hiking, golfing and spending time with friends and family. Please join us in giving her a warm welcome!

06/01/2025

25/12/2024

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season! 🎄❄️

26/11/2024

Watermark Equine is hiring a veterinarian! Check out our listing on the AAEP Career Center for more information.

31/10/2024

Happy Howl-ween from Kira 🧙🏻‍♀️, Liza 🦔, Quill 🍌, and Spike 💀 Whose costume is your favorite?

13/09/2024

We are proud to support Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship! These special therapy partners are some of our favorite patients 🦄

08/08/2024

From the Paris Olympics to the Pony Olympics, we are committed to providing the best care for all of our patients large and small! 🦄

22/05/2024

📍 Dr. Faulkner and her (in)famous sidekick Liza are excited to be at Devon today through Saturday morning. We wish good luck to all of our patients! 🩵

07/02/2024

Confused about the difference between nerve blocks vs joint blocks? Regional nerve blocks are an important part of a lameness workup as they allow for the localization of pain to a part of the limb. Local anesthetic is injected fairly superficially, but close to specific nerves, numbing the limb from there down. Because everything distal (below) the nerve block site is affected, the vet will start low and then work their way up the limb. When the lameness is significantly improved or resolved, the most recently numbed area is considered to contain the source of the pain. This region is often then more closely examined with imaging as the issue has been narrowed down to a certain area, though not necessarily a specific structure or injury. Joint blocks, alternatively, involve injecting anesthetic solution directly into a specific joint. This procedure requires a complete sterile preparation of the site since the needle is placed just as it would be for a joint injection. A positive response to a joint block implicates that joint and/or its supporting structures. Joint blocks are more specific, but also more invasive, so are often utilized after regional blocks have been used to implicate an area (but performed on a different day/after the effects of the regional block have worn off).

19/01/2024

FLASH ultrasound (fast localized abdominal sonography of horses) is an abbreviated exam that allows us to evaluate intra-abdominal abnormalities in horses with colic such as displacements of the colon or abnormal intestinal loops.

➡️ Swipe to see a distended loop of small intestine. There is sedimentation of the contents of the intestine (ingesta and fluid) because the bowel is not moving normally.

Busoni, et al. Evaluation of a protocol for fast localised abdominal sonography of horses (FLASH) admitted for colic. Evaluation of a protocol for fast localised abdominal sonography of horses (FLASH) admitted for colic. Vet J. 2011 Apr;188(1):77-82.

22/12/2023

It makes us so happy to see our hard working grooms recognized for their tireless dedication to the horses under their care!

In his almost four decades in the horse business, Antonio Bustamante has worked for people in all parts of the hunter/jumper world, from horse enthusiasts at their home farms to Olympians and, for the past 13 years, for Val Renihan’s Findlay’s Ridge LLC. Everywhere he works, he leads by example ...