Arondel Equestrian Center

08/29/2025

Sweet Idarado 29 years young. every day with him and for his wonderful humans who have shared this kindest of horses with us for his retirement. ❤️
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08/26/2025

Girls love their mid day sleeps away from the summer flies.

08/13/2025

Rainbow! Never gets old.

08/02/2025

Big day in our rehab horse's journey!

The horse arrived at Arondel with a conservative, guarded-to-fair prognosis. It has taken a year and a half for the hoof transformation. We are thankful for the amazing care of Rood and Riddle Podiatry department, which is only 10 minutes from our farm!

➡️ From life-saving hoof resection surgery, hoof cast, therapeutic shoeing, and stall rest
➡️ To supportive metal hoof bridge, therapeutic shoeing, and small paddock turnout
➡️ To no metal hoof bridge, therapeutic shoeing, normal turnout, and light short walking hacks.

This case is an example of how horses with cellulitis, even in the best care, can quickly manifest and then start affecting other parts of the body. The daily health care monitoring to quickly identify the horse's illness, and then the swift action of this horse's show barn and local veterinarian, allowed it to be transported to the hospital and receive the procedure it needed.

The hoof resection, needed to relieve pressure on the lamia and prevent coffin bone rotation, has been successful.

🐎🩺👩‍⚕️Talk to your veterinarian to learn the warning signs of cellulitis and the steps to take. The AAEP ( American Association of Equine Practitioners) does have a good infographic available on their page.

07/27/2025

REALLY excited about our new stable tool from Schneider Saddlery! Schneiders Insta-Wash Heated wash & vac. Think of it like a carpet cleaner for horses. 😀 Light weight, easy to transport from barn to house or trailer. I love the horse vaccum so much, I took it next level with water, soap and suction!

This will be super handy, especially in the winter when I want to give baths or spot baths, but I don't want a super wet coat post bath in the cold. Little bit of water, deep suction to extract the water and dirt. I have been hot toweling for so many years, hoping this will be game changer. Granted a little hot oil hot towel will always be nice. 😀

07/18/2025

Beautiful monarchs love the clover. Spotted turning the horses out. An entire little world of butterflies, bees and things all going, growing and doing. Look up, down or around for a change og perspective. You might be surprised at all the the life there is too see!

07/17/2025

Pretty Sadey. 🥰

07/15/2025

When you are 29 and perfect you earn special fan privileges because it makes you happy. 🥰

07/11/2025

Interesting research paper on the use of cold laser and PPID/Cushings horses. This is a new to me use of cold laser therapy that I am excited to try our Respond Animal Therapeutics Luminex Vet Class 3b laser on my personal horse for this use case. I am a fan of *East* meets *West* meaning a blended approach to health care of pharmaceuticals + holistic approaches. I could not imagine removing a horse from medication as stated in this paper. Nontheless, I find the paper very interesting noting this is not a controlled blind study, but field case studies by Dr Petermann.

****Sharing as information purposes only. All medical advice and treatments should be directed by your veterinarian.***

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LINK TO PAPER
https://ajtcvm.org/downloads/laser-acupuncture-treatment-of-equine-cushings-syndrome/

Laser Acupuncture Treatment of Equine Cushing’s Syndrome
Uwe Petermann DVM

Abstract
Equine Cushing’s syndrome (ECS), or pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), is a chronic progressive pituitary disease that occurs almost exclusively in older horses and ponies. Management of this chronic disease can be difficult, particularly in individuals that don’t respond to the medication, pergolide, which is one of the only effective treatments at this time. The use of low-level impulse lasers (LLL) to treat ECS are introduced in this paper.

Summary
Laser acupuncture therapy is an effective useful treatment method which is relatively easy to learn and apply. In daily practice it is an extremely effective therapy for numerous, chronic, degenerative diseases such as ECS/PPID. The cases presented in this report are a small sample of well over'30 ECS/PPID patients, which have been successfully treated with laser acupuncture. They clearly demonstrate that laser acupuncture extends the therapeutic possibilities in the management of this syndrome.

In conclusion, laser acupuncture combined with local laser therapy should be considered for horses with ECS/PPID. Treatment usually takes approximately 6 weeks up to 3 months for recovery and it appears that even horses that have had chronic disease for years can still have positive clinical outcomes. A caveat for healthy maintenance of these horses is to recheck them once or twice a year with a diagnostic and therapeutic laser treatment.

Equine Cushing's syndrome (ECS), or pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), is a chronic progressive pituitary disease that occurs almost exclusively in older horses and ponies. Management of this chronic disease can be difficult, particularly in individuals that don't respond to the medicatio...

07/08/2025

New toys. 🥰 3D anatomy model for my tablet. Full rotation, zooming in out, removing layers... cool use of tech.

They also have Windows and MacOS desktop as well as other species for those interested.

https://biosphera3d.com/product/3d-horse-anatomy-software/

07/08/2025

Rainbow! 🥰

07/05/2025

Thankful for our Big Ass Fans aisle fan to keep the barn cooler this summer! Add in watering the aisle with the fan and we have great evaporative cooling.