Elite Equine Veterinary Services, Inc

04/11/2025

Good Luck Matt!!

04/03/2025

The team is famous! Did you catch them on Fox 21? If not, check them out now.

03/05/2025

Please help us spread the word about a job opening with Elite Equine in Penrose, Colorado.

Elite Equine Veterinary Services, Southern Colorado’s premiere equine sports medicine practice, located in Penrose, Colorado is seeking a Part Time Veterinary Assistant to work 25 - 30 hours per week to support their clinic and rehabilitation center.
Days and hours may flex based on the needs of the business but will be mostly Monday – Friday. There may be an occasional weekend or holiday needed to assist with the care of equine patients.

This position will be a client, doctor, and staff facing role and is the common denominator to connect the dots and support the DVM’s based on their work schedule. Experience in handling and safely restraining equines is required. The ability to receive instruction and feedback, ask questions to gain clarity in direction, and learn and apply knowledge and skill to situations, demonstrating ability to progress in knowledge and skill. Multi-tasking, EXTREME attention to detail, and comfort with stopping and going is essential. Detail orientation with highest commitment to quality and precision of work. Ability to quickly analyze a situation, determine priorities, and act on situation consistent with policies and protocol. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds. Comfortable and able to work in multiple seasonal outdoor environments. Skilled in the use of computers/systems including keyboarding, reading and interpreting instructions and information in English.

Elite’s clientele are equine professionals and individual performance horse owners focused on their animal’s health and performance in a variety of disciplines. It is critical that this team member convey professional confidence through their demeanor and actions. Elite is known for their veterinary expertise, responsiveness, sense of urgency, attention to detail, and exceptional service. You must exemplify these characteristics and be able to jump from task to task with speed while never losing track of the detail to close the loop.

Please contact our Operations Manager, Jo at [email protected] for full job and compensation information.

03/03/2025

The clinic is usually busy on Mondays with all three doctors and Carrey Gunderman Farrier Services; today a camera crew was added to the schedule.

02/26/2025

With spring only a few weeks away (🙌), it’s not too early to start thinking about a deworming plan for your equine companions.

If deworming is something you’ve been doing the same way for as long as you can remember, this year we encourage you to break tradition and work with your veterinarian instead. Thanks to tools like the f***l egg count, your horse doctor can help you devise a treatment tailored to the needs of your equine friend plus monitor the efficacy of the dewormer used last.

And before you dismiss this notion because you’ve been “doing it for years,” you should know that the old-school approach to deworming is quickly becoming outdated—not only a waste of money but it also builds drug resistance in the parasitic fauna of equines, which means we are running out of drugs that can effectively help us control parasite infections.

As always, consult your equine veterinarian to learn more and for questions specific to your animals!

02/07/2025

While the number of confirmed equine rabies cases every year is low, talking about this disease remains important because of the potential for human exposure—which does NOT have to involve a bite from an infected horse, as contact of skin or mucosa with the horse’s saliva could be enough to transmit the disease.

Rabies has many faces, but they are all deadly—once a horse shows clinical signs, the animal invariably dies within a few days as there is no treatment.

The good news is that modern vaccines are highly effective and current AAEP recommendations list rabies as one of the “core vaccines” that should be given to all horses annually to maintain immunity (read the full AAEP vaccination guidelines here: https://aaep.org/guidelines/vaccination-guidelines).

Equine rabies is a real risk for all horses, and a public health concern as well. Be sure to set up a regular vaccination schedule with your veterinarian if you haven’t already done so. Remember that strange behavior on behalf of your equine friend is always a valid reason to check in with your horse doctor!

01/22/2025

Always good information to pass along.

It’s not uncommon to find horses and ponies living well into their 20s and 30s, thanks to continuous advances in nutrition and health care.

Horse owners have a big impact as well and can help their horses thrive in their golden years through proper management practices like those illustrated in the graphic. But remember, although there is much you can do on your own to keep your older horse happy and spry, some conditions associated with aging require medical intervention.

Scheduling regular visits and keeping a good line of communication with your veterinarian will allow you to respond quickly to any ailments or injuries that could cause your horse a serious or prolonged set back. That means less worry for you, and a better quality of life for your old friend!

01/15/2025

Good information, worth sharing

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SPOT COLIC IN HORSES?

Colic indicates a painful problem in the horse's abdomen (belly), which can be caused by a number of different conditions. Less than 10% of all colic cases are severe enough to require surgery or cause the death of the horse; nevertheless, every case of colic should be taken seriously because it can be difficult to tell the mild ones from the potentially serious ones in the early stages.

Horses show signs of abdominal pain in a wide variety of ways, and usually a horse shows only a few of the signs during an episode of colic. The rule of thumb is — the more obvious the signs of pain, the more serious the problem.

If you suspect the horse is suffering from colic, we suggest that you:

• Alert your veterinarian immediately

• Remove all hay and grain from the horse's surroundings

• Don't medicate without your veterinarian's approval, as pain medications can mask clinical signs

• Walk the horse around if it's continually rolling or in danger of hurting itself — but do not tire the horse with relentless walking and don't approach the animal if it's not safe

• Keep the horse under close observation until the signs of colic resolve or the veterinarian arrives

The key to increasing the chances of a good outcome is to identify the problem early and get your veterinarian involved from the start.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of colic signs. Horses are individuals and may display signs of pain in a variety of ways. Always consult your horse doctor for more information.

12/30/2024

Call or email the office today to get set up!

12/26/2024

Wishing all a very Merry Christmas and a blessed new year.

12/16/2024

Smile! It’s Monday and Christmas is next week!

12/15/2024

Congratulations Kayla Jones on Tech of the month! Our employees are family to us and we could not be prouder.

We're proud to introduce our December Vet Tech of the Month, Kayla Jones of Elite Equine Veterinary Services, Inc! 💫🩷
Says practice manager Arlene Potter, "Kayla is a wonderful person, an amazing employee, and takes her job very seriously, keeping our doctors safe and as efficient as possible each and every day. We could not be prouder to name Kayla as the December tech of the month!"

Congratulations Kayla, and thank you for all that you do! 🌟

12/15/2024

We’re excited to share this big news! Congratulations Kayla!

We're proud to introduce our December Vet Tech of the Month, Kayla Jones of Elite Equine Veterinary Services, Inc! 💫🩷
Says practice manager Arlene Potter, "Kayla is a wonderful person, an amazing employee, and takes her job very seriously, keeping our doctors safe and as efficient as possible each and every day. We could not be prouder to name Kayla as the December tech of the month!"

Congratulations Kayla, and thank you for all that you do! 🌟

12/14/2024

Happy National Day of The Horse!

12/08/2024

Congratulations Warren Performance Horses, LLC!

12/05/2024

Huge congratulations to Warren Performance Horses, LLC! Gavin Warren & Doctor Dreamer won the Novice Horse Level 3 at the 2024 NRHA Futurity!

11/29/2024

Wishing you all a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving from our Elite Equine family to yours.

11/12/2024

Thank you to all of those who have served our great country.