Rob Warren

In 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded up 279 wild horses to prevent the animals from starving following the Idaho Soda Fire. The fire destroyed more than 279,000 acres of critical habitat. Between 2016 and 2019, some of the horses were returned to the wild after their grazing area had grown back, but many were adopted.

“I call them my Geriatric Club,” joked horse owner Laura Croyle, referring to her 3 horses—Big Chief and Little Cloud, both 20-year-old miniatures, and Dex, a 30-year-old mustang.

Frida was among the first horses to undergo a foraminotomy, a specialized surgery performed by only about a dozen veterinarians nationwide, at the University of California, Davis.

Four years ago, the medical team at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, part of UC Davis College of Veterinary Medicine, removed a sialolith from the right side of Joe Juice’s face. He recovered quickly and returned to the Davis Center for Equine Health’s (CEH) teaching herd.

Tenacious Candy, a 2-year-old Thoroughbred filly, lived up to her name when she endured an extended hospitalization to survive tetanus. Days after experiencing a cut on her leg, she went down in an exerciser. It took 3 men and a tractor to get her up. Initially, she could eat and drink, but over a period of hours, she…