Excelsior Equine Veterinary Services

17/07/2025

You know that feeling when you feel like its been a bad day already and you can't tell why, and then something happens and you are like "oh yeah... Saw that coming." 🫠😫🙃

Thank you to all the kind clients that have been understanding for scheduling changes (and especially those that even offered me a ride!)
Special shout-out to the client that hung out at the barn for literally hours and helped me figure it all out 💜

17/07/2025

I'm giving the talk on Modern Equine Dentistry! Come see! 🤓

The Lorenzo Driving Competition has a great lineup of educational activities not to be missed!

Saturday, July 19, Educational Showcase Demonstration area, sponsored by Equi-Analytical, Ithaca, NY

12pm: Hunting Horn Demonstration provided by Douglas Russell, Jr., Limestone Creek Huntsman, a second-generation huntsman will demonstrate various calls that are made from the field to communicate with the hounds and the field. Douglas has hunted hounds for a variety of hunts from Montreal to the Carolinas! This is his 7th season as huntsman for Limestone Creek Hunt.

1pm: Equine Spinal Manipulation: Learn and observe about the science of equine
spinal manipulation (commonly referred to as chiropractic) as Dr. Timothy Moore, owner
of Moore Equine Veterinary, demonstrates this very helpful modality on a horse.

2pm: Modern Equine Dentistry: Dr. Alyson Waring-Scott, owner of Excelsior Equine
Veterinary Services will demonstrate the important practices of how to maintain healthy
dentition in our equine friends

12 – 4pm: Cazenovia Blacksmith project – at the entrance to the Oakman Carriage
and Sleigh Collection Barn
Join Jeff McIntyre as he describes his research through photos and tools of his
family’s blacksmith shops that once were prominent businesses in Cazenovia.

10/07/2025

Several people have asked what my favorite ice cream stand is, and today's stop definitely deserves an honorable mention! Big Dipper Ice Cream in Apalachin NY!
Pros:
🍦 Multiple unique soft serve flavors available (I got black cherry 🍒!)
🍦 Excellent prices 💰 (my usual order was a full $2 cheaper than what I'm used to)
🍦 Real delicious ice cream without stabilizers that some places use ( ice cream is supposed to melt! 🫠)

Only two cons:
🍦 No crunch coat sprinkles (minor sacrifice)
It's too far away for me to go to regularly! 😢

03/07/2025

*Drumroll please* And the answer is.... 25! 🍦🍦🍦
I have had (at least) 25 stops at local ice cream shops while on the road. (There are likely some that I forgot to take pictures of because I was so excited to eat them 🤤)
Next survey will be how much weight I gained this summer with all this ice cream 😳😵 (jk please don't guess 🫠)

24/06/2025

Watching the pretty ponies jump the pretty sticks at my favorite place on earth. 💜🏔️ ☀️ 🐎

16/06/2025

🚨New policy: Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice will require a $50 deposit to re-book the next appointment. If there is a second cancellation you will removed from my client list. Because I have a wait-list of amazing people wanting work ASAP and ain't nobody got time for that BS.

14/06/2025

Miniature horses can make anything more adorable... Even gastroscopy!

03/06/2025

I chose the name "Excelsior" for many reasons. A very important reason is that it is the motto for New York state, the place I have always called true home. I am proud to live in a place where people can live their true selves, with a state government that protects those rights. "Excelsior" also means "ever upwards," which is how I always hope we as a society will advance. To a place where hate has no place in politics or legislation. Happy pride month everyone- know that I accept you all, no matter who/what/where/how you live and love.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

02/06/2025

Happy June! ☀️ Is everyone else as busy and exhausted as I am?? 😴😩 Starting now, I'm closing my books to new clients. This will allow me to provide timely and quality care to my current client base. I might start taking new clients again in the fall when things slow down.
To my current clients, I am filly booked until July, so if you have work you want this summer please schedule an advance as much as possible!
Also thank you to everyone who has been supportive and understanding of my crazy schedule as I've been working 60-70 hours per week since March. 🙃 The patience and support of many of you has been very helpful 💜

28/05/2025

🚩🚩Red Flag alert!!🚩🚩🚩
This ad disturbs me for a few reasons..
🚩1) GERD and ZES have never been reported in horses. These are human gastric conditions. That instils a lot of confidence in this company already, right? If horses could get GERD (which is a reflux disease due to low tone of the cardiac sphincter) they would be able to vomit. 🤮 And boy would that make our lives easier! (But they can't)
🚩2) Omeprazole sold to treat disease is a PERSCRIPTION item. This is not an FDA approved medication!! There is no grantee that there is ANY omeprazole actually IN this product!
🚩3) Instructions say "give 1/2 to 1 full tube daily." That's a huge range. Because when they know it has all the therapeutic benefit of Elmer's glue, accurate dosing doesn't really matter, right? 🙃

Yes, I know GastroGard and UlcerGard are not cheap, at ALL. So why do we veterinarians insist that they be used when treating gastric ulcers? Is it because we are getting kickbacks from the company? (I wish... hit me up BI, I'm for sale 😘) No, it's because it's the ONLY THING THAT ACTUALLY RELIABLY WORKS.

Here's the thing with omeprazole.. the drug itself is pretty cheap to manufacture. HOWEVER- it also is broken down by stomach acid very easily. And in order to get a therapeutic dose the drug needs to make it through the stomach acid to get absorbed in the small intestine. The MOST important part of GastroGard is the gastric buffer that the omeprazole is packaged in. *This* is what makes GastroGard so effective, and also so expensive.

Making FDA approved, research supported, quality products is not cheap. And let's be honest, horses in general are not cheap! 🤑🐴 You spend SO much money on your horse, and they do SO much for you... why would you cheap out on them when it comes to keeping them comfortable and out of pain..? 🤔

19/05/2025

‼️Only two weeks left for clients to take advantage of the special spring gastroscopy promotional pricing! 🌼 🐴
Also, as we all know, imitation is the scinserest form of flattery 😘