Wolf Creek Equine Hospital

23/06/2025

🥵 Baby it’s hot out here!

Be sure to supply plenty of fresh water 💦 and be cautious about metal buildings, they can be hotter than being outside.
Stay safe & hydrated!

16/06/2025

This is Marks mustang.
Dr Mende & Mark were at an auto cross Saturday.

09/06/2025

My sidekick Pip jumped in the creek at Wolf Creek.
Good thing my work truck can handle a little mud.

“Did you see that?”
He takes riding shotgun very seriously, looking for gremlins and men with hats and beards ….

29/05/2025

Racing vibes with my horse friends 🐴

23/04/2025

FOUND: homing pigeon. It has bands, it's scared, and we think it's injured. Trying to locate its home.

14/04/2025

📣UPDATE📣

As postage stamp costs continue to rise, we will be transitioning to electronic statements this month, April.
Any client preferring to receive a hard copy of their statement via mail should contact our office at 410-741-1473, and we will be happy to accommodate this request.

Thank you, and we wish you a restful Easter holiday. 🐰

14/03/2025

We would like to officially introduce Dr. Melissa Larkin. We are excited to have her join Wolf Creek and offer her skills to our clients.

Dr. Melissa Larkin grew up in the Hudson Valley region of New York state. She began riding at a young age and quickly decided she wanted to spend her life with horses and to become an equine veterinarian. In 2017, she graduated from Post University with her bachelor's degrees in Biology and Equine Studies with a veterinary track. She remained in Connecticut after her undergraduate studies and worked as an equine veterinary assistant to further her experience level and understanding of the career before attending veterinary school. She received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 2023 from the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in central Massachusetts.

Dr. Larkin then moved to Maryland for a mentored associate position, working as an onsite farm veterinarian for a privately owned standardbred breeding farm. With a population of over 1,000 horses, she gained rapid experience in reproduction, foaling, neonatal care, and emergency medicine. She managed the general medicine and the veterinary components of sales preparation for an annual crop of about 300 weanlings until their sale as yearling racehorse prospects.

Wolf Creek Equine Clinic welcomed Dr. Larkin in 2025 and she is very excited to now work in an ambulatory practice setting where she can provide compassionate care to owners and their horses. She has special interests in dentistry, emergency medicine, reproduction, and the maintenance and management of our beloved senior horses. In her spare time, she still rides her own “heart horse” Nadia, whom she has owned for 17 years and will never part with. They were once avid eventers, and eventing is a sport that Dr. Larkin would love to return to when time allows! She is also a huge cat-person and enjoys spending time and going on walks with her beloved cat, Ziti.

14/03/2025

Stay tuned, we have an exciting announcement coming 🤩

07/03/2025

Yesterday… a day in the life of Dr. Mende

“Of all the dangerous things I do on any given day… I was almost taken out by a tree.”

*more pics in comments

03/01/2025

Colic knows no holidays!

I suppose it’s a bit late, but today we got a true Christmas miracle. It all started the Sunday before Christmas when we realized Dublin had no manure in his stall. This was not good, not good at all. Katie immediately put a call into the vet. She instructed us to consider Dublin on colic watch. We put him in a small area to monitor his manure and his comfort level. Typically horses who are having a colic episode will paw, bite at their sides or roll. Thankfully at this point Dublin seemed quite comfortable and was just pi**ed off because he couldn’t have anything to eat. The next day when he still had no manure Dr Mende came out. We were devastated to hear he had an impaction colic. A devastating, at least to us, diagnosis. Dublin is 30 years old. This was going to difficult for him to overcome

Honestly, I don’t even remember all that happened with the holidays happening at the same time it’s all kinda a blur. We spent our Christmas morning and day taking Dublin on trailer rides. The hope was, the joseling would help him pass manure. It’s something horse people do. Over the last 11 days Dublin has taken at least a dozen or so trailer rides. Usually we would get a little manure, but sometimes not. After 2 more visits from Dr Mende she told us his impaction was moving. Unfortunatley on her third visit it had moved to the worst place in his intestine to work its way through. On Tuesday we were told if it hadn’t resolved in 48 hours, which was today, we would have to consider it wasn’t going to. I could tell she was not very hopeful. If the impaction didn’t pass, that meant euthanasia. Obviously we haven’t slept much worrying.

Dr Mende was to come back today. I was convinced it was going to be a very bad day. I canceled a personal doctor's appointment so I could be there because I didn’t want Katie to be by herself just in case. We all held our breath, when the vet was done with her exam she said those magical words, “it’s all gone.” I really thought we were all going to cry. It was obvious we were all thinking the worst.

Dublin’s recovery is all because of Katie. She has practically slept in the barn for 10 days. She has set alarms to give him his sloppy wet meals every 2 hours, walked him around the ring to keep him moving, taken him on many trailer rides and prayed non-stop. She really believed he could recover, when I had huge doubts. Katie had lots of help too. A big thank you to Amie, Lillie, and Tony who hung out at the barn with Katie and kept her hope and spirits up. Thank you too to Dr Mende who answered our questions and inquired multiple times a day about Dublin, even on Christmas day.

It took a village and a Christmas miracle, but Dublin is doing well and Katie’s sleeping in her own bed tonight. Life is good at Dun-Pikin Farm. Come Ride With Us!

Cindy 🐴

02/01/2025

⭐️Don’t miss this exclusive offer for savings on your horse’s coggins. Call today to schedule an appointment.

*Link for the coggins form:
https://www.wolfcreekequine.com/eia-coggins-form.html

23/12/2024

Happy Holidays ☃️🎄🥂

Although our office hours will be limited.
We will be here for any of your horses needs through the holidays.
Please remember to call the answering service so that we can be paged. 410-553-2812

Have a safe & wonderful holiday.