Equine Mobile Veterinary Services: Kris Anderson DVM

02/06/2026

Come join us y’all!

I’ll also have fossils there that my mean husband is making me sell!

It’s almost show time! 🎉
The Clear Lake Gem & Mineral Show runs February 28 – March 1 at the Pasadena Convention Center, and we’ll be there exhibiting.

To celebrate, we’re running a show special all weekend: 10% off ALL loose, cut Montana sapphires.

If you’ve been thinking about an engagement ring—or treating yourself (or someone special) to a one-of-a-kind piece—this is a great chance to find the perfect stone in person. We’d love to see you there!

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01/29/2026

Veterinarians and our staff are a superstitious lot. If you’ve spent much time around us, you know this. There are certain things you just don’t say. It’s quiet today. The schedule is light. I should get out of here on time today. Look at that pretty vein. It’s just a simple neuter.

Yesterday afternoon, one of the humane organizations I do work for (and really really like) asked me to fill out a few things for a grant they applied to, as their veterinarian. Certainly! They asked how often did I see these folks, and what type of appointments were they. The overwhelming majority are of course preventative care - dentistry, vaccines, microchips, coggins - with some lameness, metabolic, and dermatological issues mixed in because that’s what we see a lot of in neglected horses.

I commented in the paragraph portion that actually, due to good husbandry and safe facilities, we didn’t actually do a lot of emergency calls on this facilities horses. In fact, I couldn’t think of a lot of lacerations I had seen that weren’t associated with new intakes and often happen involving transport. Pretty normal stuff. Just put that out in the universe.

Rookie mistake.

Enter this little roan dude. He’s got quite the tale. He was seized by a different “humane” organization (who was by all accounts pretty terrible, but that’s a story for another day, and I promise I’ll share it when the time is right) and was in their care for two weeks, where he lost a significant amount of weight. He was thin at the time of surrender (body condition 2/9), but by the time we got him out of there (I had to strong arm them to get this group when we did, as they wanted to hold them for 4 more weeks, and they already had enough red flags that I didn’t think that was at all in the horse’s best interest) he had dropped to a 1/9. Despite some of the reasons he was taken from his owner being poor condition, hoof neglect, and dental neglect, no hoof or dental care had been provided in their care, and he was decidedly worse off.

He arrived originally to my place, and was turned out to my quarantine pasture with several others. He promptly choked. ON GRASS. That’s a first. Then he did it again. Poor guy hadn’t seen grass in who knows how long and couldn’t handle it apparently.

We shifted him to a different foster, who could keep him off grass and do a proper refeeding protocol. He’s a cantankerous old thing, and despite being in such awful shape, is now up to a body condition 3/9 and is really a bit of a handful for an old man.

And yesterday, I put out in the universe that lacerations (outside of new intakes) just aren’t a thing with this humane organization. And this little roan beast said hold my beer.

In the herd he’s been in for a month, with a routine that is pretty well set, he came into the barn for dinner. Maybe someone made an ugly face at him and he tried to get away. Maybe he was just feeling fresh and tripped while being silly.

We know where it happened. We know when it happened. It was witnessed. But the how still remains a bit of a mystery. In second the wheelbarrow was toppled and he was on the ground. And then the injury became apparent.

The panicked call came in, from a woman who just doesn’t panic. “Chester ripped his ear off. It’s just… dangling there.”

On my way.

He marched to his stall and started scavenging the scraps of his breakfast like nothing was wrong, leaving a trail of blood everywhere. “Should I feed him?”

Ain’t no way I’m dropping him in his condition. Gonna have to do this standing. Let him eat if he wants.

He cleaned up his bucket and wanted more. Foster mom struggling to hold it together as he demands he’s being under fed.

It was less blood loss than I expected for a head wound. I’ve seen much worse. The ear and ear canal were fully intact, but starting at midline and working outward, this fool has somehow half scalped himself. Complete with ripping the muscle off his skull so hard there were bone fragments in the muscle that had ripped away. Plus a few minor bone fragments just in front of the ear we had to clean up.

He wasn’t the easiest patient, and I utilized a twitch so I didn’t have to sedate him as heavily as I needed to, but he still chose to be a bulldozer a few times. More than an hour of figuring out what piece went where and putting them carefully back together, multiple layers, lots of suture, lots of staples, and the cosmetics look damn fine.

And Chester? This morning he was demanding breakfast like he hadn’t eaten in a week.

12/08/2025

Congrats to Dr. Anderson for being one of the nominees for the Healing Hands Award presented by Purina, A Home for Every Horse, and the American Association of Equine Practitioners. Dr. Anderson was nominated for her work with Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society.

11/20/2025

You can also review the EHV-1/EHM fact sheet from the Texas Animal Health Commission at

11/20/2025

By now, you’ve heard about the emergent cases of EHV-1 linked to a large event in Waco.

There’s a lot of hysteria and drama online, and we have a lot of clients calling the office. While we want you to be careful and follow good biosecurity practices, please don’t panic.

This isn’t my first experience with an EHV-1 outbreak, and my advice is the same as every other outbreak: sit tight and stay home and keep others away from your horses. This means don’t haul to events or to trail rides, don’t have friends over to ride. Go ahead and cancel the body work and farrier. Cancel elective vet procedures. However, if your horse is sick, injured, or ill, call your vet – don’t postpone emergency care because you’re worried.

Right now, this bout of EHV-1 has been linked to the barrel racing community, so barrel horses are at a greater risk. However barrel racers board at mixed discipline barns. They share fencelines with horses on other properties. They come in contact with other horses at the vet. The farrier or bodyworker who works on a barrel horse may be out to your farm next. I expect this will spread beyond the barrel horse community (if it already hasn’t).

Even though horses can be contagious and spreading EHV-1 in the early stages when it is still hard to detect, doing our best to indentify and treat cases, as well as isolating exposed horses, is our best way of slowing or stopping the spread.

If you board, have recently traveled, or have shared fencelines with horses who travel, monitor your horses and those around them for any symptoms. Take temperatures twice daily (normal temperature is 99-101.5F).

This is great information that I borrowed from another clinic:

Limiting exposure to other horses helps because EHV-1 spreads through:
Direct horse-to-horse contact
Respiratory droplets
Contaminated surfaces
Shared water or feed buckets
Human hands or clothing that touch an infected horse

Practice good biosecurity (this is always good advice, not just now):
Wash hands & change clothes after visiting other barns
Don’t share buckets, hay bags, or grooming tools
Especially don’t share bridles/bits
Monitor temperatures daily
Stay home if your horse seems “off”

Reach out to my office if your horse has been exposed to a positive horse and isolate that horse from all other horses.

If your horse has a fever, even if they’re showing no other signs, contact my office immediately. If you are concerned your horse is acting sick or off, even if they don’t have a fever, contact my office immediately.

And I know this is scary and you love your horse. Just remember, we all love our horses and want to protect them. Let’s not point fingers or blame people. Let’s work together to slow the spread of this virus and not let fear make us turn on each other.

07/21/2025

Just a reminder yall - you need to be prepared for your appointments. We give you an ETA, on top of the expected arrival window. If I pull in and you aren’t there, at BEST I’m going to be cranky. And that’s if you pull in within a minute or two of me.

I’m not waiting if you’re two minutes, five minutes, or especially twenty minutes out. I’m leaving because it isn’t fair to everyone after you to be running behind, and I’d prefer to get home before dark.

You can reschedule and show up on time, and you’re going to have to pay two farm calls now, because I made two trips. If you’re running behind, communicate that - i can stop for fuel, snacks, drinks, or sometimes switch you and the next client. But I am not going to wait.

Photo of a recent nasty wound, owned by a client who was ready and didn’t make me wait 😉

05/29/2025

I’m no fan of TikTok, and prefer my news in the written form from standard outlets. However, Dr. McCluskey, who is speaking here, is the real deal. This details the very thorough joint investigation by the USDA, TAHC, and TBVME into this horrific breach of biosecurity, leading to the unnecessary infection and death of over 20 horses, and it is very likely more will be identified.

The common thread is that all of these horses were seen by Outlaw Equine in Decatur TX, and had an IV catheter placed. This clinic mixed their own heparinized saline in a community bottle, which was then used to flush IV catheters of these hospitalized horses. Either a dirty needle was used to draw out of the bottle, or a “syringe assigned to a horse” allowing the bottle to become contaminated.

There are two separate clusters - May and August of 2024. Dr. Mccluskey is confident that not all horses have been identified. At least one horse has been naturally infected via fly bites, from one of these horses. The patient zero horse from May has been likely identified, but the one from the August cluster has not.

If you had a horse hospitalized at Outlaw Equine between April and October of last year, that had an IV catheter placed, that horse needs to have an EIA test, and I’d recommend contacting the Texas Animal Health Commission to do the testing at NVSL as part of their traceback.

35 comments, "Also “no board certifications” yet they do a lot of surgeries there. 🤦🏼‍♀️" - lindseyparker98

05/21/2025

We all know horses can get themselves into quite the sticky situation. Great job security for equine veterinarians! So seeing horses with various injuries is just an average day in equine practice: busted heads, lacerations from fences, even a stick wedged somewhere it doesn’t belong (yeah, I’m thinking if you Nico!).

Sometimes though, they give us some real head scratchers. Today was one of those days. Ally isn’t talking, but I sure would like to know how this happened! This is a very heavy duty hook, likely for fishing offshore, but her owners don’t do offshore fishing, and equipment is stored on a different property. Yes, we are coastal, but these guys are at least a half a mile from the shore, maybe a little more. Property is a clean property

Did it come in by floodwaters? Carried in by bird? Careless neighbor?

And how did she hook herself? It had to have been secured to something heavy enough that when she (almost certainly) je**ed her head up that there was resistance, driving it through her lip.

Ahh, horses. Her dad and I got some good laughs over this one. Just a little sedative, some heavy bolt cutters, and proper medications and wound care and Ally is much happier this afternoon!

04/30/2025

We would never say we have favorite clients, but some folks definitely come with perks!

Fruits 'n Such Orchard, thanks for a great bonus today!

Y’all, blueberries are in season, and hers are great!!

04/19/2025

Come out to the gem and fossil show! We have stuff for the kids, and lots of fossils and sapphires for sale!

Yes, the transport vehicle is my 3H Sundowner, so this post is definitely topical!

02/08/2025

The Texas practice act, unfortunately, allows lay people (untrained, often quite harmful to your horse) to perform dentistry in horses, with some minor requirements. Most of these people do not even bother obtaining their state “license” which only states they know the laws governing them (which they all chose to break), and has no requirements of education or competency.

No matter what these people tell you, here are some facts:
- They are NOT dentists. Dentists attend years of school. They have significant education. These people have neither. Some did a few weeks of courses, often not teaching quality, science based information. Most didn’t even get that.
- They cannot administer sedation. They cannot legally carry sedation. If your horse has a sedation reaction, they are not trained in how to handle it, and this will result in injury or even death to your horse. Because they broke the law and carry no insurance, you have no recourse.
- They cannot perform extractions unless of erupted wolf teeth or caps that are already loose. Diseased cheek teeth may be extracted so long as they are so loose as to be done by hand without any tools.
- They can only remove sharp points and correct small malocclusions.
- They MUST be under the general supervision of a licensed veterinarian.
- They cannot diagnose or treat, nor can they prescribe medication.

I continue to come across horses harmed by these people. Just in the last 24 hours, I have seen or been made aware of the following three cases:
- a mature performance gelding with enormous caudal hooks that had eroded into the mucosa opposing them. Clearly, someone without appropriate knowledge or skill had been in this horse’s mouth, as the rostral hooks had been reduced, but the caudal hooks had clearly not been touched. Chewing, which horses spend over 20 hours of the day doing, was painful for this horse, and had been for a very long time.
- a miniature mare that was aged by the layperson floater at 5 years old. This mare was indeed 5 years old - well over a decade ago.
- a gelding that had a cheek tooth extracted from a layperson floater, when the owner called to request a specific antibiotic she was told by this layperson she needed. The vet supervising this layperson should be able to provide this, assuming a valid VCPR (which I doubt is present). Legally, I cannot just hand out antibiotics without an exam on a patient I haven’t seen in many years. This horse needs a proper examination to ensure extraction was performed appropriately, he needs pain control, and he needs tetanus prophylaxis at minimum. Obviously, this person was practicing veterinary medicine without a license, and the horse will suffer for it.

There are multiple veterinarians in the area that are very skilled in dentistry. Those few bucks you may save (often negligible) don’t matter much to your horse who gets a poor quality job. Please stop using these folks. We owe our horses to do better.

::steps off soapbox::

09/16/2024

A big thank you goes out to Dr. Kris Anderson, Equime Mobile Veterinary Services, for her Bluebonnet sponsorship of the Bluebonnet Horse Expo & Rescue Horse Training Challenge.

Dr. Anderson provides mobile veterinary services throughout the greater Houston area, and she's been the veterinarian for many of the Bluebonnet horses. She also helps on neglect cases, fosters, and recruits new folks everywhere she goes.

Thank you, Dr. Anderson, for making a big difference in the lives of so many horses!

You can learn more about Dr. Anderson at https://www.facebook.com/EquineMobilevVet