#proudhorsevet, also in Egypt
By Morgan Lashley, DVM, Dipl. ECVSMR, veterinary consultant Brooke Hospital for Animals
Horse Vets work in all parts of the world, with all types of Equids: from million-dollar racehorses to the working donkeys and horses in Third World countries. The veterinary work focusing on working equines might not get a lot of coverage in magazines and journals, but that says nothing about the importance of the work.
Free veterinary care for working animals
An NGO that has been working for more than 85 years on free veterinary care for working animals, is Brooke Hospital for Animals. After visiting Egypt in 1930, Mrs. Dorothy Brooke (founder of the organization) was heartbroken and outraged by the state former WW1 war horses were in. Instead of shipping the animals back to the UK the army had sold the animals to local Egyptian owners, who had no notion of proper animal care. The first former war horse Dorothy saw in Egypt – the animals were recognizable by a double
