
With a few precautions, barn dogs rock
I love barn dogs. These are dogs that get to be real dogs. They get to run as a pack, swim in the creek, roll in the mud and eat horse poo. When they come to the clinic they are (usually) calm and well behaved because they burn off all their excessive energy at the farm. I get to see a lot of barn dogs because of where my practice is, right in the middle of the horse capital of the world, and also because I spend the majority of my non-working hours at a barn. I thought I'd p