Rising K Veterinary Services LLC

Rising K Veterinary Services LLC Experienced equine, livestock and small animal veterinary services. I love my clients and strive to build relationships with them.

Horses are my specialty but I welcome all appointments! Ask about my equine lameness and reproduction specialties!!!

Something good for a Friday that my friend Renee sent me 💜💜I don’t have the fanciest facility. But it’s everything Ive e...
08/08/2025

Something good for a Friday that my friend Renee sent me 💜💜

I don’t have the fanciest facility. But it’s everything Ive ever dreamed of and I do have a clinic where anyone is welcome to literally walk ALL the way in…any day, any time. You’re liable to walk in on something you didn’t plan on, but we are an open family at my place.

I didn’t always have a facility. I used my truck and anywhere I could find for years. I’ve stitched up hog dogs on the floor of my barn at midnight. I’ve done c sections by flashlight in facilities barely meant to even pull one. I’ve neutered cats in my kitchen on a card table. Yep lol. I’ve stitched up and xrayed dogs on my living room floor. I’ve seen so many animals in so many places and literally have opened every door to every place I’ve ever lived to do vet work in my home.

I can be hard to get ahold of. I know that. It’s because I am so busy and everything is done through my PERSONAL CELL NUMBER. My first phone calls and texts usually come in between 5am and 6am and stop around 9-10:00pm. That’s every day for me. I allow it because I’ve kept the heart of my practice with ME. I see every patient myself. Not my tech. I answer every phone call and text. I schedule all the appointments. I bill everyone. I do it because I feel it to be my responsibility to be INVOLVED. Yes I could use some more help and that will come with time and decreased debt haha.

Last week two clients told me I’m not charging enough. Probably not. But it’s also a direct reflection of the fact that I do this because I genuinely enjoy it and want to. Not for money. When it becomes about that, I may as well quit.

I love this write up and hope to look back on a lifetime of the same memories with the same passion.

For all who deal with me…THANK YOU!!! I may be a pain but I genuinely care about each and everyone one of you and your animals ❤️❤️

Have a great weekend.

I once stitched up a dog’s throat with fishing line in the back of a pickup, while its owner held a flashlight in his mouth and cried like a child.

That was in ’79, maybe ’80. Just outside a little town near the Tennessee border. No clinic, no clean table, no anesthetic except moonshine. But the dog lived, and that man still sends me a Christmas card every year, even though the dog’s long gone and so is his wife.

I’ve been a vet for forty years. That’s four decades of blood under my nails and fur on my clothes. It used to be you fixed what you could with what you had — not what you could bill. Now I spend half my days explaining insurance codes and financing plans while someone’s beagle bleeds out in the next room.

I used to think this job was about saving lives. Now I know it’s about holding on to the pieces when they fall apart.

I started in ’85. Fresh out of the University of Georgia, still had hair, still had hope. My first clinic was a brick building off a gravel road with a roof that leaked when it rained. The phone was rotary, the fridge rattled, and the heater worked only when it damn well pleased. But folks came. Farmers, factory workers, retirees, even the occasional trucker with a pit bull riding shotgun.

They didn’t ask for much.

A shot here. A stitch there. Euthanasia when it was time — and we always knew when it was time. There was no debate, no guilt-shaming on social media, no “alternative protocols.” Just the quiet understanding between a person and their dog that the suffering had become too much. And they trusted me to carry the weight.

Some days I’d drive out in my old Chevy to a barn where a horse lay with a broken leg, or to a porch where an old hound hadn’t eaten in three days. I’d sit beside the owner, pass them the tissue, and wait. I never rushed it. Because back then, we held them as they left. Now people sign papers and ask if they can just “pick up the ashes next week.”

I remember the first time I had to put down a dog. A German shepherd named Rex. He’d been hit by a combine. The farmer, Walter Jennings, was a World War II vet, tough as barbed wire and twice as sharp. But when I told him Rex was beyond saving, his knees buckled. Right there in my exam room.

He didn’t say a word. Just nodded. And then — I’ll never forget this — he kissed Rex’s snout and whispered, “You done good, boy.” Then he turned to me and said, “Do it quick. Don’t make him wait.”

I did.

Later that night, I couldn’t sleep. I sat on my front porch with a cigarette and stared at the stars until the sunrise. That’s when I realized this job wasn’t just about animals. It was about people. About the love they poured into something that would never live as long as they did.

Now it’s 2025. My hair’s white — what’s left of it. My hands don’t always cooperate. There’s a tremor that wasn’t there last spring. The clinic is still there, but now it’s got sleek white walls, subscription software, and some 28-year-old marketing guy telling me to film TikToks with my patients. I told him I’d rather neuter myself.

We used to use instinct. Now it’s all algorithms and liability forms.

A woman came in last week with a bulldog in respiratory failure. I said we’d need to intubate and keep him overnight. She pulled out her phone and asked if she could get a second opinion from an influencer she follows online. I just nodded. What else can you do?

Sometimes I think about retiring. Hell, I almost did during COVID. That was a nightmare — parking lot pickups, barking from behind closed doors, masks hiding the tears. Saying goodbye through car windows. No one got to hold them as they left.

That broke something in me.

But then I see a kid come in with a box full of kittens he found in his grandpa’s barn, and his eyes light up when I let him feed one. Or I patch up a golden retriever who got too close to a barbed fence, and the owner brings me a pecan pie the next day. Or an old man calls me just to say thank you — not for the treatment, but because I sat with him after his dog died and didn’t say a damn thing, just let the silence do the healing.

That’s why I stay.

Because despite all the changes — the apps, the forms, the lawsuits, the Google-diagnosing clients — one thing hasn’t changed.

People still love their animals like family.

And when that love is deep enough, it comes out in quiet ways. A trembling hand on a fur-covered flank. A whispered goodbye. A wallet emptied without question. A grown man breaking down in my office because his dog won’t live to see the fall.

No matter the year, the tech, the trends — that never changes.

A few months ago, a man walked in carrying a shoebox. Said he found a kitten near the railroad tracks. Mangled leg, fleas, ribs like piano keys. He looked like hell himself. Told me he’d just gotten out of prison, didn’t have a dime, but could I do anything?

I looked in that box. That kitten opened its eyes and meowed like it knew me. I nodded and said, “Leave him here. Come back Friday.”

We splinted the leg, fed him warm milk every two hours, named him Boomer. That man showed up Friday with a half-eaten apple pie and tears in his eyes. Said no one ever gave him something back without asking what he had first.

I told him animals don’t care what you did. Just how you hold them now.

Forty years.

Thousands of lives.

Some saved. Some not.

But all of them mattered.

I keep a drawer in my desk. Locked. No one touches it. Inside are old photos, thank-you notes, collars, and nametags. A milk bone from a border collie named Scout who saved a boy from drowning. A clay paw print from a cat that used to sleep on a gas station counter. A crayon drawing from a girl who said I was her hero because I helped her hamster breathe again.

I take it out sometimes, late at night, when the clinic’s dark and my hands are still.

And I remember.

I remember what it was like before all the screens. Before the apps. Before the clickbait cures and the credit checks.

Back when being a vet meant driving through mud at midnight because a cow was calving wrong and you were the only one they trusted.

Back when we stitched with fishing line and hope.

Back when we held them as they left — and we held their people, too.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in this life, it’s this:

You don’t get to save them all.

But you damn sure better try.

And when it’s time to say goodbye, you stay. You don’t flinch. You don’t rush. You kneel down, look them in the eyes, and you stay until their last breath leaves the room.

That’s the part no one trains you for. Not in vet school. Not in textbooks.

That’s the part that makes you human.

And I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

One last one for the year 💜💕This stallion has been on fire this year and should produce some amazing barrel horse prospe...
07/31/2025

One last one for the year 💜💕

This stallion has been on fire this year and should produce some amazing barrel horse prospects 🐴💨

•Lawless Wallace• X •Woodys Lucky Lynx•

So glad we finally got this done for Mariah Weber!! And so thankful for Kiley Kocher being an amazing stallion owner and making sure we got this done!!

Mare owners…if I have one piece of advice for breeding next year…it is CHOOSE YOUR STALLIONS WISELY!!! There are stallion owners who genuinely care about your contracts and want your mares bred!!! These owners will go out of their way to see that you/we get your mare in foal. There are also those who don’t personally care about you or your mare and genuinely just want the money. If you have any doubt choosing, let me help you!!

Happy Friday!l ☀️☕️One more to finish the week. This mare came to me late last season and never did give us a great cycl...
07/18/2025

Happy Friday!l ☀️☕️

One more to finish the week.

This mare came to me late last season and never did give us a great cycle. We had one shot but just didn’t get it done. This year, she came in, did her job perfectly and went home bred in one try 💜

Two good things to note about this.

1) I always urge people to bring me mares early in the season. I know sometimes it just doesn’t work out because of late foaling dates, conflicts of schedule or just things and life happen. That being said, if we only have one shot to breed your mare and anything (and I mean anything goes wrong)…then we are just out out of luck for the year. So many things can happen, especially late in the season and when we only have one attempt at the very end of June to get a mare bred, things start to stack against us 😞

2) Sometimes everything can go right in a season and your mare still doesn’t get bred 😫 I tell people all the time that often times it’s just not the right year for that mare!! I see mares come in every year that for some reason don’t cycle well or don’t cycle at all (culture and all else looks normal) and we have heck trying to get them bred. Yet they come back at the beginning of the next year, they look amazing on ultrasound, and they breed right up with no issues like the previous year never happened 😂

Sometimes the best thing you can do is just wait a year and be patient and try again!!!

Anyway, here’s another cool cow horse cross and Im so happy to have finally gotten Riley a baby on the way 🐴💜

Another GO baby coming right up to start your morning ☀️☕️These mares may have came to me late, but they did not mess ar...
07/15/2025

Another GO baby coming right up to start your morning ☀️☕️

These mares may have came to me late, but they did not mess around!!!

Another really cool cow cross to hit the ground running next year 🐴🐴 This stallion is an own son of ONE TIME PEPTO and out of the dam Shoety Lena Chic and should be fancy!! 🤩

Another Metallic Heaven baby!! This is such a nice stallion who is LOCAL, had GREAT semen quality and the owner truly ca...
07/14/2025

Another Metallic Heaven baby!! This is such a nice stallion who is LOCAL, had GREAT semen quality and the owner truly cares about YOU as a mare owner. You literally can’t go wrong with this one!

Crossed onto a super cool GO (Flitner Ranch) mare, this foal should be born ready to go ranch and do cow work 🐴❤️

Metallic Heaven
Jeri Black Slover

Ok I know you guys may be sick of this BUT this one is really fun!!! Sorry for the photo dump but these were too cool no...
07/09/2025

Ok I know you guys may be sick of this BUT this one is really fun!!! Sorry for the photo dump but these were too cool not to share!

🤩 MY FIRST FRIESIAN 🤩

Big thanks to Ramon for letting me handle this super cool breeding! Fenna was a gem as was the stallion owner!!!

Another one dose frozen semen breeding 😎🤘

This should be a super fun cow horse cross!! 🐂This stallion looks to be pretty darn neat and the mare, “Mya”, is just be...
07/08/2025

This should be a super fun cow horse cross!! 🐂

This stallion looks to be pretty darn neat and the mare, “Mya”, is just being retired from her cutting horse career to be a broodmare. She is out of Im Countin Checks 💵💵

•SHINY OUTLAW• x •REYNING CHECKS•

As promised….I’m back 🤪 Been a good day for pregnancy checks around here. Little time away did us all some good!!! DA CA...
07/07/2025

As promised….I’m back 🤪 Been a good day for pregnancy checks around here. Little time away did us all some good!!!

DA CARE BEAR x REIN IN PRECIOUS 🧸🧸

This is my THIRD year breeding this mare!!! I love to see repeats with their babies I made at their sides. So much fun 🥰🥰🥰

‼️‼️86 days‼️‼️86 straight, consecutive days without one single day off. That’s what it takes to breed mares. I wouldn’t...
06/28/2025

‼️‼️86 days‼️‼️

86 straight, consecutive days without one single day off. That’s what it takes to breed mares. I wouldn’t change it for anything but boy am I tired!!! 😴

This was my busiest breeding season yet. And on top of getting mares bred, I collected 6 stallions which I was really excited about. We used these collections to breed with both fresh and cooled semen and we froze a LOT of semen straws. Hundreds of semen straws. We are getting really good, if you ask me lol 🤩🤩

Next year I have at least 4 more stallions to collect and I can’t wait to share 2 of them with you ❤️
Be watching later this fall and winter as I start advertising these and letting you know what we have here!! Always welcome to taking more in as well!!!

On top of the long stretch of days, I spent 18 nights in my little sheep shack taking care of these frozen semen breedings 🤗🐑 It’s tiring but it paid off!! Huge thanks to my dad for loaning out his camper that he spent so many many nights in over his years on oil rigs. He said the other day that he was happy to see it still getting so much use!

Repro is tough but also rewarding. It takes a lot of time, patience, try, faith and quite a few prayers. Sometimes things just don’t work out and it’s as heart wrenching for me as anyone. I hate sending open mares out the door but I assure you it’s not for lack of effort here 🥹

With that said, I will be gone this weekend and next week! I apologize for the absence but it’ll be much needed time off for me!

I still have lots of mares to check so keep your eyes peeled for more pregnancy posts and the cool stallions their owners chose 💜🤗💜

Pictures of my crew and Jack & Jill in the parade the other weekend ❤️🤍💙

Ok really spicing things up today! Something other than mares 😂This is the 3rd hernia surgery we have done in the last 2...
06/26/2025

Ok really spicing things up today! Something other than mares 😂

This is the 3rd hernia surgery we have done in the last 2 weeks. Tis the season 👩🏻‍⚕️🩺💉

As my tech Caroline said today…”these are so aesthetically pleasing.” I couldn’t agree more! Very satisfying 🐴❤️

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