VETERINARY HORSE CARE

Derek Landwehr BVSc MRCVS & Associates

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Telephone: 070 50 20 40 70 or mobile 07976 740409

PO Box 1138, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6WR, United Kingdom

E-mail: horsevet@btopenworld.com

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WELCOME TO VETERINARY HORSE CARE. Please also see the LINKS at the bottom of this page

Veterinary Horse Care is pleased to welcome you to this website. The mobile equine practice was established to provide a friendly, modern service offering its clients and patients personal veterinary care with the highest standard of service and equipment.

Veterinary Horse Care encourages responsible and enjoyable horse ownership by your horse/s participation in the WELLNESS PROGRAM (planned preventative medicine) and by providing you with advice and products concerning all aspects of horse health, care and wellbeing. The real benefits of horse health care are that your horse/s enjoy a more fit, active, longer, healthier life.

Veterinary Horse Care has an excellent team consisting of experienced associated equine veterinary surgeons who collaborate to provide your horse's veterinary health care. We encourage our liaison with any other providers of care to your horse/s to facilitate the common goal of integrating efforts to best benefit the horse. Our commitment to you is to strive to ensure that we will,

"treat you and your horse in the manner in which YOU would like to be treated!"

SERVICE that Veterinary Horse Care provides to BENEFIT your horse includes:

BYFLEET RECEPTION: Available for your convenience 7 DAYS A WEEK to collect your supplies THAT HAVE BEEN ORDERED IN ADVANCE WITH VETERINARY HORSE CARE. Collection hours are: Monday - Friday 8am - 6pm, Saturday 9am - 6pm, Sunday 10am - 2pm. To save a wasted journey please wait until you receive a text message alerting you that your supplies are ready for collection; A wide range of equine supplies are available, please ring or e-mail for advice or to place an order in advance of collection. Most supplies may be mailed to you by SPECIAL DELIVERY if you prefer
RAPID RESPONSE - 24 HOUR EMERGENCY EQUINE VETERINARY SERVICE: An equine vet is always available to attend your horse in an emergency
VISITS TO YOUR HORSE/S DURING NORMAL HOURS: Routine consultations are by appointment at a time to suit you
OUR VISITS ARE NORMALLY TO HORSES WITHIN A 20 MILE RADIUS OF WINDLESHAM (Junction 3 of the M3). Outer limits are Henley-on-Thames to the northwest, Basingstoke to southwest, Cranleigh to the southeast and London to the northeast. Satellite navigation and 4 wheel drive gets us to you reliably whatever the weather: We can attend horses further afield by prior arrangement. Central London visits are possible but incur an urban travel fee due to the extremely congested traffic. Alternatively, we have arrangements with several Equine establishments to where you can transport your horse for us to attend. Please ask for details.
PLANNED PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE - AN ANNUAL WELLNESS PROGRAM: A planned preventative health review for your horse for the following year that can be tailored to your specific requirements during our routine visit to your horse for vaccination.; As well as the clinical examination your horse will receive prior to vaccination, at the time of our visit to your horse we recommend that as part of your horse's wellness program you ask us to:; 1. Examine your horse's mouth with a gag and perform any necessary dentistry.; 2. Examine your horse's foot and hoof balance and advise(communicate with your farrier)accordingly.; 3. Objectively assess the worm burden and supply the correct wormers for your horse for the following year.; 4. Take a blood sample from your horse for a routine health screen. This provides useful baseline data and can help detect sub-clinical disease early before external symptoms appear.; 5. Insert a microchip if your horse doesn't already have one.
PRE-PURCHASE EXAMINATIONS(VETTINGS): Always have your horse examined by an equine veterinary surgeon BEFORE purchase. Please contact us for advice as early as possible in the proceedings.
INFORMATION: Click on the links below for general background information. Please contact us for specific advice
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: Radiography(X-Rays), Ultrasound scanning. Other imaging arranged as necessary
ENDOSCOPY: Enabling visual examination and sampling/treatment of internal structures
ECG: For detailed analysis of heart rythms
LAMENESS EXAMINATIONS AND HOOF PROBLEMS: This is Derek's area of specific interest - working with farriers as a team. See links for special shoes below.
MODERN DENTISTRY: Appropriate dental treatment is always preceeded by a thorough veterinary examination of your horse's mouth and ALL teeth, not forgetting any veterinary issues that may be relevant in the horse attached to the teeth. Sedation makes this procedure more pleasant for the horse, safer for all concerned and enables a comprehensive job to be performed
LABORATORY: Blood samples, biopsies, joint fluid, swabs, worm egg counts, health screens etc.
IMPORT/EXPORT EXAMINATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION: For horses travelling abroad we always have at least one official equine veterinarian available.
LECTURES: Lectures/demonstrations to groups on requested equine veterinary topics are available by prior arrangement. Please ask for details.
ASSOCIATIONS: We are proud members of the British Equine Veterinary Association and American Association of Equine Practitioners
INSURANCE: Veterinary Horse Care feels that with a good Horse Insurance Policy for Vet Fee Cover you gain "Complete peace of mind". Fees for emergency and or complex diagnostics & surgery/treatment can mount up. For a reasonable monthly premium, you can be sure that your horse will be able to receive the very best care in diagnosis and treatment of those unexpected or long term illnesses / injuries, without placing yourself in the difficult position to make a decision on your horse's future based on financial considerations. Be sure to read the fine print when selecting an insurance company as some insurance policies are limited.
REFERRAL TO HOSPITAL: In the event that your horse is a candidate for hospitalisation, we are privileged to be able to rapidly select the appropriate hospital / facility for your horse from an unlimited range of the most advanced institutions throughout the country
ESTIMATES: Vets can provide you with an estimate for the specific treatment options available for your horse
EMPATHY AND COMMUNICATION: Taking the time to understand your feelings and ideas is important to us and essential in assisting us to help you with the selection of an appropriate treatment option for your horse
IDENTIFICATION: Microchip insertion provides a permanent means of identification. Your horse can be traced back to you if lost or stolen.
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT-BASED BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION SERVICE: Master the behaviour modification skills required to consistently incorporate into your routine management to rehabilitate specific problem cases and to avoid the development of behavioural problems.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: In fairness to all of our clients, all fees are payable at the time of service. Payment may be made by cash, cheque with a guarantee card or credit/debit card. For convenience, most established clients make use of our Credit/debit card account facility which is available subject to status. Prescriptions are available from this practice. You may obtain Prescription Only Medicines, Category V, (POM Vs) from your veterinary surgeon OR ask for a prescription and obtain these medicines from another veterinary surgeon or a pharmacy. Your veterinary surgeon may prescribe POM Vs only for animals under his or her care. A prescription may not be appropriate if your animal is an in-patient or immediate treatment is necessary. You will be informed, on request, of the price of any medicine that may be prescribed for your animal. The general policy of this practice is to re-assess an animal requiring repeat prescriptions every three months, but this may vary with individual circumstances. The minimum charge for a re-examination is travel fee plus minimum consultation fee. Further information on the prices of medicines is available on request.
FINAL CARE: We believe in helping your horse enjoy a full and good quality of life. Unfortunately there comes a time when, despite everyone's best efforts, life's toll on our horses deny them the ability to continue to enjoy a full, active and dignified life. This is something that all horse owners prefer not to have to consider, but before your horse has to endure any suffering, we recommend that he/she be put to sleep. Once this difficult decision is reached, we will attempt to make this distressing event as easy as possible by (circumstances permitting) arranging a convenient time for the euthanasia when the yard / environment is quiet so you can be afforded your privacy during this emotional time. Another difficult decision that you will have to face at this difficult time is what to do with your horse's remains. Ideally we advise that you take the opportunity to discuss this with us before the euthanasia so there is one less thing you are faced with at the euthanasia. We generally perform euthanasia by injection and horse's remains are collected and cremated by a professional crematorium.
FINAL NOTE: Veterinary Horse Care is proud to serve you and your horse/s. We hope that you find this website helpful and ask that you always feel free to make comments and suggestions about future updates or other services you would like to see us offer.; We would like to thank all of our clients for their continued support and for their ongoing word of mouth referral of like-minded new clients. We are dedicated to providing a service of the highest possible standard. We will continue to review our facilities, equipment and training in order to implement a policy of trying to exceed your expectations.; Having owned horses ourselves, we know how important your horse is to you and therefore we look forward to treating you and your horse as YOU would like to be treated yourselves.

Thank you for visiting our site. Please contact us if we can be of help

Click on the LINKS below for general background information. Please contact us for specific advice:

THE BITLESS CROSS-UNDER BRIDLE - whole-head-hug design (a defining feature of the bitless bridle) provides PAIN-FREE and comprehensive communication

SPA TREATMENT - Hydrotherapy - Swimming, Water treadmill

Information on LAMINITIS, Pituitary Dependant Cushing's disease and obesity dependant laminitis (Peripheral Cushing's disease)

Equine Industry Welfare Guidelines Compendium for Horses, Ponies and Donkeys

Equine Strangles and vaccination

Grass Sickness

Sweet-itch

Strategic targeted worming versus routine prophylactic worming

Horseslips - The flexible glue-on horseshoe. Look for Horse slips under products

A solution for instantly rebuilding damaged hoof walls and providing protection and support for hooves

An alternative to nailed metal and glue-on horseshoes

Find a Farrier in your area

Horse Pasture Management Project

HBLB Codes Of Practice on Equine Contagious Disease

The Horse

Horse & Hound

British Horse Society

British Equestrian Federation

DEFRA Department of the Environment, Food and Rural affairs (Horse Passport information)

EUISTRO NUTRITION SUPPLEMENTS AND CARE PRODUCTS - One key base supplement called MEGABASE with add on supplements as required

Badminton Horse Feeds

Dodson and Horrell Horse Feed

SAFE - Surrey Action For Equine

All horses (where "horse" means an animal of the equine or asinine species or crossbreeds of these species but does not include zebras) should now have a PASSPORT. Note that owners of horses declared as intended for human consumption or where the declaration is not signed, have an existing separate legal obligation to keep a written record of ALL medicines or substances administered to their horse (i.e. to keep a "medicines book"). The requirement falls to them under existing food safety legislation rather than the new passport regulation.

Disposal routes for horses including National Fallen Stock Scheme

Import and Export of Horses

FREE Equestrian Classified Ads at The Horse Exchange - Free horses and ponies for sale ads - also Loans and Hire as well as Equine Products and Services - UK and Worldwide - Free Photos - Free Hyperlinks.

An information directory for everything equine in Berkshire, North Hants and North Surrey.

Online Equestrian TV - Watch Equestrian TV on your browser.

In the interests of your horses WELFARE, if you are struggling to keep or treat your horse for financial or other reasons and would like professional assistance to find a new home for your horse please contact:

International league for the protection of horses

Blue Cross

RSPCA

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