Danielle Thumma - Lameness – Stifles – Injections

Lot of Pain – Unhappy – Depressed

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're swinging up into Maryland this week and we've got Danielle Thumma on the line here. Danielle, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Danielle Thumma:         Hi, John. Thank you for having me today.

John Dowdy:                 Well, you're very welcome. And once again, we're always excited to have our guests here on the Equinety podcast. And this one, well, I think I had reached out to you. I saw you comment on one of the ads that we had going and you started off something like this, "I love, love, love Equinety. It truly saved my horse's life." I said, "Okay, let's hear this one." Because we do hear some pretty amazing stories. I tell people all the time, this is not a miracle supplement. It's not the end all, be all. You got to have the proper care and nutrition and veterinarian care and farriers and all the stuff that comes along with taking care of a horse. But when you're able to add this Equinety product to those things, sometimes things can turn out to be a miraculous situation. So you also have been working in the veterinarian field for about 10 years, I believe it was?

Danielle Thumma:         Yeah. Yeah. That's right.

John Dowdy:                 10 years. So you work for an equine vet. So tell us a little bit about the horse that you have here. How long have you had this horse? What was going on? And we'll start there.

Danielle Thumma:         Sure. So MVP is a 17 year old thoroughbred off the track. I've had him since he was four, so about, I guess, 13 years now. And he was supposed to be my event horse, which he didn't exactly like and then we found fox hunting was something he enjoyed. About five years ago, he started having some soundness issues in his hind end and we narrowed it down to stifles and we did some injections and they helped for a while and then it got to the point where they just weren't keeping him sound and comfortable. I took him down to Morven Park to see one of the surgeons there. And they basically looked at everything and said that there was nothing that could really be done to repair his stifles.

Danielle Thumma:         So after that, we kept him, we tried doing small paddock and stall rest and none of it really made any difference and he was very unhappy. So it progressed to the point where we put him on, he was on Bute twice a day and we had to increase his dose to about four grams a day, which is a really high dose for horses. The recommended dose is one gram twice a day for no more than seven to 10 days. But the Bute worked for a little while and then it stopped working. And then my boss and I looked into other pain relief sources. We did some dexamethazone, which is a steroid. And he was on 40 milligrams a day, which was a very high dose, not recommended for longterm use.

Danielle Thumma:         And it got to the point where that was not keeping him pasture sound. He was uncomfortable, he would very quietly walk around. There was no more exuberant running around happiness. So I was sort of faced with the decision that it was going to be best to euthanize. And I saw the ad for Equinety on Facebook. So I clicked on it and I looked into it for a bit and I decided that it was worth a shot. It wasn't going to hurt him. It wasn't going to cost me an arm and a leg to see if it made any difference. So I ordered it and I got him started on it. And within about two weeks he was happier and running around with his buddies again. And just really a completely different horse.

John Dowdy:                 So from a horse that you were looking at having to just put down because of the pain. You'd tried everything else from Bute to steroids, the surgeon said surgery wouldn't help at all.

 

Lisa Lyons - Sole Depth - Underweight – More Focus –

Better Attitude – More Topline – Muscle Quality – Cushings

 

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing out to the West Coast of California. That's West Coast for me because I'm in Florida. Lisa Lyons out of California. Welcome to the some other podcast.

Lisa Lyons:        Thank you. It's great to be here.

John Dowdy:     Well we're excited to have you. A couple of weeks ago you sent me some before and after pictures of your horse's hoof that was severely foundered. And the pictures are quite shocking. We've been running this as an ad for the last couple of weeks and it's got a lot of activity. And let's just talk about this particular horse, how long you've had him and how did you learn about the Equinety and what were your thoughts when you first got the Equinety?

Lisa Lyons:        Okay, well Calvin is a 10 year old, 17 hand, national show horse. I've had him for two and a half years. He was purchased as a project horse. He was underweight, under muscled, didn't have the greatest feet, but had a heart and soul. So got him, got him into training, was given a sample of your product at a horse show. And like so many samples, threw it in my bag, didn't think too much of it at the time.

Lisa Lyons:        When I got home I decided to read the back of it, do a little research, was impressed with the ingredients, the testimonials seemed good. It's not a banned substance. I can give it to my horses that go to USCF shows, not worry about any drug testing problems. And right off the bat I noticed with Calvin he seemed more focused, more calm, better attitude, better focus. And as an added bonus he was in training, was getting good nutrition and good farrier care. But he started developing a much better top line, better muscle quality and unbeknownst to me, it was helping him grow his soles. He didn't have the greatest feet and had some corrective shoeing done.

Lisa Lyons:        And anyway, flash forward to previous May, he'd been doing great and then came down with a severe case of mechanical founder. It happened very quickly. One day he was fine, next day I got the call and it was a touch and go for a while. He had to be hospitalized twice. A lot of radiograph, a lot of vet care, change of diet during his vet care. He was hooked up to IVs because everything got so inflamed. And one thing my vet commented on during all the radiographs was that he had a good amount of sole which probably saved his life. Because when he rotated the coffin bone it didn't drop down due to the sickness of his soles.

John Dowdy:     Yeah, so just to reiterate, so you had him for two and a half years. After about six months of owning him is when you started him on the Equinety and that's where you really noticed the muscle quality, the attitude focus, and a little did you know it was also helping with the sole depth, which is obviously came in handy for this mechanical founder. Now for those that are tuning in and have never heard of mechanical founder, could you tell us exactly what that is?

Lisa Lyons:        Sure. I mean, in my layman's terms, I'm not a vet. Most founder is caused by something metabolic and in some other instance, Cushing's, are highly susceptible to laminatic issues and with mechanical founder due to confirmation. And his confirmation is very straight up and down. And that's how it was explained to me by the vet.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. And I find that... Well I would say what I want to say is, I find this interesting because it's the first story that I've heard of where, you had started the horse on the Equinety product and he was on it for a year and a half. And then this happened where, well, it would have been life ending for him if it wouldn't ha...

 

Sara Turner - BIG Skeptic – Performance Horses – Chronic Pain

Fox Hunting – More Stamina – Responsive – Less Stressed

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Virginia. We've got Sara Turner on, and we're going to talk about fox hunting, although I was corrected just a bit into fox chasing, but we'll get into that. So the difference, what is this sport? And it sounds like a lot of fun. I've never personally done it, but after speaking with Sara, I think I'm sold. So without further ado, Sara Turner, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Sara Turner:                  Hi, thank you for having me.

John Dowdy:                 Well, it's great to have you and I'm excited for this one because I don't believe that we've had anybody in this fox hunting, fox chasing niche on the Equinety podcast. So let's talk about this sport that you do. How far back does it go, and tell us a little bit about the adventures.

Sara Turner:                  Sure. I'm excited to talk about it and share my experiences with Equinety and with my two Thoroughbreds, who I actively hunt. So I'm located between Charlottesville and Richmond in Virginia, and I'm lucky enough that I live in what I consider the epicenter of fox hunting in the country. There are recognized hunts all over the U.S., and when I say recognize, that means they're recognized by the Masters of Foxhounds Association, which is actually located two hours north of me in Middleburg, Virginia. It's a deep, deep, traditional, long part of the Virginia culture. And it's a wonderful, wonderful sport. If you enjoy horses and we call them hounds, we don't say dogs. Dogs, the countryside, an adrenaline rush, then it just work for you. Unlike most other equestrian sports, there's not a ribbon at the end of the day. And I'm just fine with that. There's a big smile on your face and everyone's high fiving that you survived the day.

Sara Turner:                  We are out there to have fun, enjoy the countryside, enjoy our horses and enjoy watching the hounds work. So that's the sport. And the hunts that I hunt with, there'll be a scheduled hunt three days a week. So unlike horse showing, which I did in my past life, if you have a bad show, you walk away, wasn't great. I chipped that jump and you know it, I just spent the whole weekend and the whole week preparing for it. If you have a bad hunt or something goes wrong, guess what? You wake up two days later, you'd go back out and you'd try it again. And everyone's there. And it's a very deep rooted community in the fox hunting world. Very supportive. You know, just people want to have fun and want everybody to be safe. So I'm happy to tell you a little bit how a typical hunt would work if you want me to [crosstalk 00:02:47].

John Dowdy:                 Absolutely. Well, we've come this far. We can't stop now.

Sara Turner:                  Okay, each club has staff and we have a huntsman who manages and takes care of our hounds. Each club will have, I don't know, somewhere between maybe 80 and 120 hounds that they feed and care for. And our hounds are our pride and joy and so much goes into their breeding and their care. So we'll show up at what we call a fixture. It's pre scheduled, a time and a place and usually in the middle of a cow field somewhere or at someone's beautiful estate in central Virginia. You park your trailer and the hound truck will arrive with usually 30 hounds and the staff horses all crammed into a trailer. And the members of the hunt show up. We finish tacking up, we get on our proper attire and there'll be maybe a quick, what they call a stirrup cup in the beginning, if someone's hosting the hunt. They'll be walking around with cups of port and maybe some donuts on a silver platter. That's on a more,

Chris Roll - Founder – heaves – Near Death Mini now doing great!

 

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. This is a pretty, I'm just going to say, a miraculous one. I always tell people that the Equinety product is not a miracle supplement, but it sure does some miraculous things and I think this story fits right into that category. We're going to swing up into Pennsylvania. Chris Roll, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Chris Roll:         Thank you, John. It's good to be here.

John Dowdy:     Well, we're happy to have you and I'm excited to talk about this one. I actually came across one of your comments in a post that on one of the ads that we were running on Facebook and you told the story of, you have too many ponies in their twenties and one of them was scheduled to be euthanized and then something quite miraculous happened but let's talk about this one in particular, what you were dealing with prior to finding the Equinety product. What was going on with this one?

Chris Roll:         Okay. This was a mid-twenties miniature horse. She got down where she was stiff-jointed and all she wanted to do was lay down all the time and I thought maybe it was joint problems so I put her on a joint supplement and that didn't help. And the farrier came and he said that she was foundered so the owner decided we were going to have her euthanized before winter because she wasn't moving enough to keep her body heat up. I saw ads on Facebook for Equinety and I read the reviews and I said, "let me try this as one last resort for her, if it doesn't work then we'll have her euthanized." Within seven days, this miniature horse back up and it's been probably two months now or three that she's been on Equinety and she is now bucking and running and feisty as ever.

John Dowdy:     Now, that's pretty darn amazing. And again, I got to put the asterisk on this. This is not a miracle supplement. I'm just going to throw that out there. But, let's go back to some of the stuff that you were dealing with. So, you thought it was a shoulder issue, you were working with a couple of different farriers and they were able to say, "hey, no, this horse is foundered," which this horse had been foundered before?

Chris Roll:         Prior to us buying her, yes. She had been foundered before, but she was good up until the point where she had gotten down-

John Dowdy:     Sure.

Chris Roll:         ...with foot pain.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. And then she was so bad that she just couldn't really get up, you were having to feed her while she was kind of-

Chris Roll:         No, I fed her out of a feed pan on the ground because she wouldn't want to get up, I mean, she would just lay there and eat out of this pan.

John Dowdy:     Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Chris Roll:         And then I'd make her get up so that she can move around because it's not good for their digestion to lay and eat. So I would make her get up, but she would eat, she would get up and eat and then back down right away.

John Dowdy:     Right. Just in a lot, a lot of pain. Yeah.

Chris Roll:         Right.

John Dowdy:     So-

Chris Roll:         Like I said, I tried joint supplements and I tried Bute and nothing seemed to help her. And then like I said, I read the Equinety reviews and I thought, "why not?" So I tried it and I'm telling you, like you said, it's not a miracle cure, but it did miracles for her.

John Dowdy:     Right. And what were your, now you're dealing with two different farriers, so, what were, I mean they obviously saw her in her current condition and then how long was it... while they were on Equinety and until they had seen her again, what were their reactions?

Butch Myers - Depressed aging horse - Shoe Boil – thin soles – tender footed

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Falling Waters, West Virginia, and we've got an avid trail rider with a Belgian draft horse and an Oberlander draft. Butch Myers, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Butch Myers:                Thank you for asking me to be on here. I really appreciate it.

John Dowdy:                 Absolutely. We appreciate you being on, and in our conversations I hear that you seldom do reviews for products.

Butch Myers:                That's correct. Yeah. I usually don't bother with expressing my opinion about things usually.

John Dowdy:                 When you've been around for a while and probably have seen a lot of things out on the market, and some don't meet to your standards, sometimes it's hard to put reviews out there. Or I guess it'd be an opportunity to do a lot of negative reviews, but who wants to be in that world, right?

Butch Myers:                Yeah, yeah. In the world of supplements, I think you can't really say that any one of them doesn't do ... it might do something for somebody else, but if it doesn't do it for me, then I'm just a one-time buyer. But your product really, I have definite proof that it's helped my horses with a couple of different issues, in both the Oberlander and the Belgian. I warranted that it was definitely worth me saying something about it to you all because I'm very pleased with what it's done so far.

John Dowdy:                 Sure. So you've got ... let's first talk about the 27-year-old Belgian draft horse. Barney is his name?

Butch Myers:                Yeah. Yeah. Barney. Yes, sir.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah, so tell us what was going on with him and then how you found the Equinety and what's happened since you've been using the Equinety. Let's start first with things that you are ... what have you been using him for? Some of the issues that he may have been having or was having, and then go from there.

Butch Myers:                Sure. Barney's 27 here in 2019. I bought him when he was 9 going on 10 and used him for a trail horse. He was actually a pulling horse out in the Midwest and I bought him from a guy that bought him from somebody else or whatever. He came through this past winter there in January of this year. He got really skinny. In a draft horse, when they get skinny, they don't look good. Their hip bones stick out and they get ribby and everything. That's what he was doing. I upped his feed substantially and that didn't seem to really help much at all.

I actually saw your advertisement on Facebook and it was more or less geared towards thin-soled horses but it did say something in there, I think, about maybe a horse that was unusually thin, that it would help out. So I called your business and talked to a gentleman. He explained to me the theory behind your product and I thought, "Well, you know, it's worthwhile going ahead and buying a tub of it, and just see how it does, if I notice any difference or not." So we started Barney on it, and actually him and the other horse that we'll talk about, but it did, my wife noticed it took about 30 days or so. I figured I had enough with the bigger jar, you have 100 doses in there.

John Dowdy:                 Yes.

Butch Myers:                So I figured that'd give me 50 doses for each horse. I figured in 50 days, giving them one scoop a day, to see if I'd notice anything. Probably in around the 30-day to 40-day area there, you could notice that Barney was starting to muscle up more through the chest and across his ribs. He was getting a little bit more meat on him and his demeanor, like we talked about, was changing.

Dan Chambers – Senior horse in poor condition -

Navicular – Cushings/IR – now bucking and playing!

 

John Dowdy:

Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Ohio and we've got Dan Chambers on the call this week. Dan, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Dan Chambers:             Thanks John. Thanks for having us.

John Dowdy:                 Well, we're excited to have you on and this week we're going to go into the rescue world. So you and your wife had gone to an auction with no intentions of coming home with a horse. Tell us about that.

Dan Chambers:             Yeah, we went to the auction and my wife was looking for a horse for her granddaughter and we stayed there for the auction. They all ran through, we didn't buy anything. We're getting ready to leave. And somebody said "Well, there's a guy out here and he's got a horse for sale." So we talked to the guy for a while and he had a great big old guy. He was probably about 15 or so at that time. We've had him for about eight years now and we bought him at the sale because we were able to ride him and do things with him, and then we paid to the owner at that time for the horse and then he left him at the sale until we could find a ride for him later that evening. After that, the guy that sold him just disappeared. We never saw him again.

So we went to get the horse. He was in a stall and after the tack was removed and everything out there, he didn't look like the same horse at all. He just really was underweight, didn't want to move very well and we bought him and brought him home. Had somebody haul him in for us and he got into to our house. And when they got him off the trailer here, we assumed right away, we'd kind of been duped with some drugs or something. That's the assumption on our part, but that horse could barely move when he got home and for days and weeks afterwards you kept thinking, "Well, maybe you'll get a little better here. Something will happen." We knew he was underweight, so we put a lot of groceries on him. Probably got about 200 or 300 pounds on him and he just never did move well.

He would move with his shoulders. If he wanted to step to the side, he would have to take a step. Let's say he's going to the right. He would take a step with his right front, bring the left front to make the right steps or stutter stepping all the way around. He couldn't do a very fluid move or cross over with his front legs ,and it looked like it was really painful for him.

John Dowdy:                 Right.

Dan Chambers:             So we had a vet come out, check him over. I thought maybe I had some shoulder or leg problems. The vet did some radiographs when we found, and he was diagnosed with navicular syndrome, with degeneration of the navicular bone that wasn't good, and that's probably never going to get any better. We can do things to ease him up by using corrective shoeing.

So we had the farriers come out and work in conjunction with the vet and do corrective shoeing with the rocker shoes and shortening the toe of the horse to get a more breakover and also to lift the heels off the ground more, so that he would not get as much pressure on that navicular bone from the deep digital flexor tendon putting pressure on him. And that seemed to help him somewhat. We rose him a little bit and we could ride him for a little, but he wasn't ridden very well. His movements were coarse, they were very difficult. He could walk and trot fairly well, but with the lunge.. a lope was just lunging in the front end to get off of his front feet and coming down and it wasn't fun to ride. So we kind of basically quit. Didn't have a whole lot of other options at that time.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah. And you were having to use some Bute and stuff p...

 

Marlies Parent - New environment - Stressed -

Rain Rot - Stronger Hooves - Weight gain - Happier

 

John Dowdy:     Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Tennessee, and we've got Marlise Parent on the call this week. She going to be talking about her four-year-old Appaloosa. Marlise, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Marlise Parent: Hey John, I'm really glad to be here.

John Dowdy:     Great, well we're happy to have you, and let's jump right into this. I saw you commenting on some of our ads on Facebook, on some of the ads that we have going. So I reached out to you because I thought your story with your horse was pretty darn interesting, and could benefit anybody that might be going through the same thing. So tell us a little bit about how you acquired this Appaloosa, and what was going on when you brought him to your place.

Marlise Parent: I'm more than happy to. I purchased him in March this year, and he was delivered to me ... from Iowa. Back in that time, they had a minus 60 degrees temperatures. It was really cold, and he walked off the floats with three blankets really bundled up. At that time in Tennessee, we were already at 65 degrees. So when he came off, he experienced not only extreme climate change, but everything else that came with it. A new owner, a new pasture, a new stable, pretty much everything around him changed. And I do believe he had a little culture shock, I would say I would call it for us humans when we move.

John Dowdy:     All right. Yeah, absolutely. So what was his previous life like?

Marlise Parent: Well, he was a stable horse. He was stabled at night. During the day, I think they did turn him out into the pasture, but he was very well taken care of. He was a halter horse, he was a show horse, and he was babied. He still is to an extent, but in his new home, he's allowed to be more of a horse than anything else. He's a trail horse now and just ... living the good life, I hope.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. Hey, that's what they need. Right? So, what did you start noticing going on? And I think you as we were previously talking around a five or six months, you are kind of having some issues and noticed some weight loss going on.

Marlise Parent: Exactly. I do believe the biggest problem was the diet change that he had ... and he was a show horse. They had him on a very specific diet. They bucket-fed him most of the times as he was stabled, and when he came here, he turned out into the pasture and that was pretty much it. I noticed he started losing a lot of weight because vegetation over here obviously is different as well. So, when I started worrying about his weight, I started looking up online things and at one point, Equinety popped up on my news feed on Facebook.

I started looking at the pictures, I started looking at the reviews, did some more research online about it, and I figured, well, there's not much I can do wrong. If it helps, great. If not, I guess I'm just going to have to look for something else or something more to help him ... on not only the weight loss, but also an extreme case of rain rot that he acquired because he wasn't shedding after he moved from that cold environment to the relatively early, hot environment over here. So I ordered the product, and I gave it a shot.

John Dowdy:     Yes, and in addition, to that, you, his hooves were also pretty brittle too, weren't they?

Marlise Parent: Yes, they were fairly soft. He's got four white hooves, and they were soft and my farrier office said try to put some oil on it and treat it, and there was this and that and the other. But once I put him on the Equinety, it just, it just literally fixed all the issues that I had with him within a fairly good amount of time too.

 

Arlene Bara - Lymes Disease - Coughing -

Pneumonia - Swelling - Allergies - Inflammation

 

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety Podcast. We're in for another exciting podcast this week. We're going to swing up into Pennsylvania and speak with Arlene Bara, who, well, let's just get right into this. An amazing story. So, without further ado, Arlene, welcome to the Equinety Podcast.

Arlene Bara:                  John, good morning. I'm very excited to be a part of your podcast today. Thank you so much for inviting me.

John Dowdy:                 Well, you're very welcome. It's great to have you. I believe I came across your comment on one of our Facebook ads, and I said to myself, "Oh, okay, I've got to get Arlene on this call," because, according to what you wrote, you are having some serious challenges with your 12-year-old. So let's first of all talk about this mare. What things were you dealing with prior to coming across the Equinety? So let's give a little background on her.

Arlene Bara:                  Okay, John. Sure. I have a 12-year-old mare here. She's a registered solid paint roan. Beautiful little mare, and I've had her for 11 years. Within the last three years, she developed a cough, and, not being too alarmed, I didn't think too much about it, but then it got progressively worse.

So, of course, I called the vet. Over the three-year period here, now I've had three different vets that I have consulted with. One said she has COPD. One says that she has allergies, which I started a series of serums for. She has so many different allergies that the serums just didn't seem to want to work. She had been tested positive for Lyme disease. We live in the mountains here, in the Poconos, and the ticks up here are pretty bad. So I guess it's inevitable, at some point. But she did test positive for Lyme, and I know that Lyme disease is one of those hidden sicknesses that can pop up in your immune system at any time and just do battle.

John Dowdy:                 Sure.

Arlene Bara:                  So she did come down with some pneumonia. She was treated for the pneumonia but, unfortunately, wasn't healed from it, and she carried that sickness for a couple months until, finally, the third vet that I had came and kind of knocked that out of her.

But when I saw your ad, my mare was still coughing and very lackluster. She had lost a lot of weight. Her breathing was labored, and I just was feeling very heavy-hearted. Your ad popped up as I was on Facebook, and I was reading it. I saw some of the comments, and I'm like, "Huh, that's interesting. I think that looks like maybe it's worth a try."

John Dowdy:                 Sure.

Arlene Bara:                  So I got it, and it came at a good time, because she was suffering again with some inflammation in her legs. It was so bad that I had a hard time getting her to come out of her stall. That's how bad it was. I rubbed her down, and I put liniment on her and wrapped her up. I started her on this Equinety, and I'll tell you what. After three days, that inflammation disappeared, and it hasn't come back. She's been on this Equinety now for, what we did we say, two months?

John Dowdy:                 Yeah, two months. But just backing up just a little bit here, so everything's kind of hunky dory, business as usual every day. But she developed a cough. Then she tested positive for Lyme. Then she had pneumonia, and her allergy panel was everything allergic that you can think of.

Arlene Bara:                  Yep.

John Dowdy:                 It all just seemed to kind of hit over ... What kind of a timeframe was this?

Arlene Bara:                  Well, this has gone now, I want to say,

041 - Julie Klouda – Easy Keeper – Picky Eater -

Mystery Lameness – Chronic Soreness – VERY Skeptical

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Colorado this week and speak with Julie Klouda. Julie, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Julie Klouda:                 Thank you.

John Dowdy:                 Great to have you on and we're excited because you, what was interesting, you had commented on one of our Facebook posts and you had mentioned that you had been in the pet nutrition industry for 20 years and you had an amazing experience with your horse. Let's talk a little bit about your background in pet nutrition, although it's not so much on the equine side but dogs and cats, but you're up to speed on nutrition. So let's talk a little bit about that, your experience there.

Julie Klouda:                 Great, thank you. I actually started years ago in the rescue world, as many of us do and I had gotten into nutrition for them because in rescue you get so many who are either emaciated, they've got illnesses, diseases and I just wanted to help find better ways that were more natural, in helping them heal. And so I started my own company of delivering pet food and going to seminars to learn about how their body can heal from the inside out to provide pet optimum health. And from there I had that business for about five or six years, sold it and became a representative for a pet food distribution company. And then shortly after that I dabbled in becoming a manufacturer rep for, actually all the way up until about a month ago, so that was probably a good 10 plus years of visiting stores and teaching them about proper nutrition supplements and things like that. And now I'm just taking a break and spending some time with some family while I decide what the next area is in the pet world for me.

John Dowdy:                 Sure. That's great. Now you have a horse that you've had for a couple of years and tell us about this eight year old Peruvian.

Julie Klouda:                 Rose is great, like you mentioned, she's an eight year old Peruvian girl. I got her from a friend in California almost two years ago actually. And she's mostly trail, we do a little bit of show. And I would say it was earlier this year, probably around February, she had a right front leg issue where she was not stepping out nicely. So we tried multiple different things. We did some rehab, acupuncture, chiropractic. And then we healed from that and then in May we had a fall and ever since that particular fall, her front legs, just every day they were very sore and sometimes it was hard for her to get up or even to walk and and at eight years old, that's a really young age for them to have that type of daily soreness.

And my heart just broke every time I'd go there and it would take sometimes an hour and a half just before she could actually walk around without looking painful. So I did some research, added in some additional joint care supplements, some CBD, plus her regular stuff that she had been on, which was either Mare Magic or Via-Calm in her oils and things. And we continued the chiropractic care and the acupuncture.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah. And what was your vet telling you, were they able to find anything specific going on or what was their advice?

Julie Klouda:                 We could not find anything specific, which was so frustrating about all of it, is that everything that we would do, nobody could pinpoint why this was happening other than maybe she has a little bit of arthritis or something after this particular fall, which I guess can happen, even if they don't break anything, they can get that early on. And even though testings and things like that, nothing showed that there was actually a particu...

Lauri Oliphant - Weight Loss - white line, thrush,

grew frog, stronger hoof, new sole depth

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety Podcast. We're going to swing up into Pennsylvania and speak with Laurie Oliphant. She's got a 21 year-old that's got some seedy toe, white line thrush, some other issues going on. Without further ado, Laurie, welcome to the Equinety Podcast.

Laurie Oliphant:            Hi, glad to be here.

John Dowdy:                 Great. We're excited to have you. So let's jump right into this. You've got a 21 year-old that you've had since she was eight, give us a little bit of history. What was going on? I know you told me that she had been bred a few times, but tell me some of the issues that were kind of going on with her and what you were trying to help her with.

Laurie Oliphant:            Her feet was the big issue. She had foundered when she was five. I've had her since she was eight months old and it was a stone bruise that caused the issue. We had a fantastic blacksmith that for six months, we worked and worked and worked and worked. Everybody kept telling me, "Oh, you ought to put her down. You ought to put her down." I said, "Nope." I said, "There's life in this horse and she wants to live."

Laurie Oliphant:            We got her feet fixed and she was doing really good, watched her diet and finally got around to breeding her. She had her first foal, no issues. Weight was easy to get back up on her with no problem, then four years later went to go breed her again, and her weight just plummeted and I've had a hard time since then. She's now 21, keeping weight on her, keeping her feet sound. Tried other products, faithfully, that other people swore by. They worked for a while and then they just quit working, no matter what I did, and blacksmith issues, so it was a hard time keeping a good blacksmith. The last time she'd had her baby, we'd fought with her feet. I found a good blacksmith that helped me out, but we were still having issues and I tried different products that would supposedly help. Added stuff to her feed to try to help her feet out. They'd help for a while and then nothing, we were back to square one again.

Laurie Oliphant:            This last time she was losing weight and I was trying to get her to gain some weight. Changed her feed around and got her teeth floated. She'd been wormed, got her teeth floated and she still wasn't picking up the weight the way she should. Shoulders were sinking in, muscles around her, [inaudible 00:02:40] were sinking in. Top line was starting to show out [inaudible 00:02:47] found this Spirit medicine. This is not doable, this is not you. Read up on your product, picked out other aspects of your product, read some testimonials, heard some testimonials and so what do I have to lose, except my one year-old best buddy?

John Dowdy:                 Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Laurie Oliphant:            I gotta try. So I started that. She'd had her teeth done a week before we got the product, did more of a diet change according to her dentist to help her out. Tried all kinds of products that usually worked short term then just would quit. She was having [inaudible 00:03:22] I was battling with [inaudible 00:03:24] oxy thing, soaking her feet. I'm doing everything and I just read about your products, went and read the testimonials and all that jazz and I wanted to look up what these amino acids would actually do and how they correlated [inaudible 00:03:47] University library, but I was reading there and I said, "what do I have to do lose"? So I ordered it up. Four weeks in, my blacksmith was dumbfounded. He couldn't believe the growth in a few weeks and I was tickled pink. Unfortunately, dumb me didn't take a picture before and after because I was busy trying to get some oth...