Kate Robinson DVM

08/08/2025

08/05/2025

07/23/2025

🎉❤️It's Veterinary Assistant Appreciation Week, and boy do we appreciate our team of amazing Vet Assistants!❤️🎉

Please take a moment to shout out the crew at our Caledon clinic! Your hard work, compassion, and dedication to our patients (and their people!) never go unnoticed. 💙🐴

05/15/2025

Protect your horse on and off the farm with the down and dirty of biosecurity!

Next Tuesday, join AAEP member veterinarians Drs. Elizabeth Gorrell and Nikki Scherrer for a webinar discussion that will help you reduce your horse's risk of exposure to infectious diseases when traveling off the farm - and how to prevent bringing those risks back home.

Registration is FREE but required. A recording of the webinar will be available if you miss the live event.

Register here: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Amr5b5WbvVA3csrVdx-tEuBwA0ZyKuQMZVQ5rWTff7jEHRW3Dwq9~AtDnhD9gYDSqbj3DVwxvS_WSZ1hC9ZCDBxkNtFYtp-BO7sH9__0xyZ5H9A

This informative session is brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee.

05/08/2025

04/25/2025

When a viral video sparked a wave of online outrage, the resulting digital mob targeted Dr. Shawn Frehner, a veterinarian who is now dead.

03/25/2025

Just because they can… doesn’t mean they should.

When our horses are working incredibly and there are competitions to go to every weekend, why would we turn out or not enter the next show or jackpot? 🤔

Most often, it comes down to the fact that they deserve it, and they rely on us to make that call. 📣

There is no better time to put your horse out to pasture for a few weeks than after they just laid down a smokin’ run or scored your personal best.

The horses that tend to “make it” as equine athletes, are usually the ones who would run themselves into the ground before ever giving up on you, and for that reason – they rely on you to be the one to call the time out. 🏋️

These high performers will give their all every time and rarely give you an indication that something is wrong before they completely collapse If you have a 110% horse, their mental and physical soundness is your responsibility.

Yes, there are times that injury is unavoidable – but let it be due to pure chance so you can let your head rest easy at night not having to question yourself on wondering if things might be different if you hadn’t pushed that buyback run.

The 110% performers are unicorns and need their owners to remind them it’s ok to be just a horse some days. 🦄

02/12/2025

I have been working on a lovely gelding over the last few months and although he was up to date on dentals, hoof care and bodywork, I was continually unable to alleviate the pain he displayed around his TMJ area on the left side. 🐴

It is outside of my scope to diagnose, but when the same issue continues to reappear time over time, I do tell the owners what I am repeatedly feeling in case they choose to have other diagnostics involved. 🩻

In this instance the owner did elect to have her vet out, and asked her to x-ray his left TMJ. The veterinarian declined. Their reasoning was that the horse is only 5 years old, and nothing should be wrong with the joint. Upon the owner’s insistence, they did take imaging of the area. Low and behold, his sweet young gelding’s left TMJ is full of arthritis. 🤕

Before I was a bodyworker, I was “just” a horse owner. But I was a horse owner who understood that no one knew my horse better than I did, and if I felt that something was off, it likely was true. When I first started standing up for my horses, I could tell that my vet thought I was crazy for the things I was asking them to come out and image. But time and again, we always found a source of pain or discomfort, and that was when my relationship with my veterinarian truly became the partnership they are meant to be. 🤝

As hard as it might be at first, it is your job to advocate for your horse. Above any professional’s training, YOU are their expert, rest assured in that. Just because something “shouldn’t” occur at an age or in a breed doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t. Pathology exists outside of normals and as your horse’s CEO, you need to be able to interview said equine experts, have critical conversations, and measure outcomes to know whether you want that person working with your horse in the future or when getting a second opinion is a good idea. 🤔

Every person who is around your horse from vets, bodyworkers, farriers and dentists, should be keen on working with each other, and most importantly of all - listening to YOU. 👊🏼

01/24/2025