Veterinary Physio Clinic

22/04/2025

125 Followers, 136 Following, 29 Posts

06/04/2025

Alfie and Jack Sparrow celebrating 110% recovery from Alfie's fractured elbow

06/04/2025

Alfie's patient Journey from fractured to flying it.
Thanks to his AMAZING owners Peter and Gwenda.

24/03/2025

Horse Abuse - There’s NO Excuse

Tradition. The hunger to win. The Prestige. The Money. The obsession with results. The resistance to learning and evolving.

These have become the pillars that uphold much of the horse industry today, and they are costing horses their well-being, their function, and in too many cases, their lives.

How did we get here?

Greed, impatience, and cognitive dissonance have seeped into the culture, creating an industry that, for many, is no longer about love for the horse but about personal gain, ego, and financial success.

Too many people are drawn into the horse world for reasons that have nothing to do with respect or care for these incredible animals.

Instead, they seek ribbons, prestige, power, and profit.

What happened to our ethical and moral responsibility to these horses?

How can people turn a blind eye to the suffering that has become so commonplace in training barns, showgrounds, and behind closed doors?

The rollkur, the tight nosebands, the soring, the excessive whipping, the drugging, the brutal training methods rooted in creating fear and blind submission —why are they not relics of a cruel past.

Why are still here, embedded in the very foundation of how many approach horse training and competition today.

How can people watch and justify it?

How do they excuse it?

How is it that, even with growing public awareness, overwhelming research, and evidence-based information, we still see governing bodies, organizations, and industry professionals defending what is clearly abuse?

When the general public, with no deep knowledge of horses, can look at a suffering animal and recognize cruelty, why do so many within the industry deny it, dismiss it, or worse—enable it?

In an age where science and research have provided clear, humane alternatives, ignorance is no longer an excuse.

Abuse is a choice.

Supporting abuse is a choice.

It is so, so way past time to do better.

It is time to advocate for horses by educating ourselves and others, by questioning outdated and harmful practices, and by refusing to be complicit in their suffering.

Make horse welfare the focus.

Make the love of our horses the guiding motivation behind our actions.

Be sufficiently aware and educated to advocate for horses being abused.

Say NO to anything that compromises their well being and don't be afraid to speak up - they depend on us!

06/02/2025

21/12/2024

Festive fun at the clinic!

21/12/2024

The always lovely Bella has just completed her 1st course of 6 sessions of hydrotherapy to treat her IVDD. Bella is starting another course and has shown great improvement in her movement so far!

21/12/2024

Little Logan on his 3rd hydrotherapy session to treat his stage 2 IVDD, a condition affecting discs in his spine an impacts his walking. Hydrotherapy is helping Logan to build the strength needed and is showing great progress. Mum Lisa is delighted with his progress and the improvement already!

30/11/2024

Frankie is the cutest patient! About to start his hydrotherapy session!

28/11/2024

28/11/2024