Capital Region veterinary practices aren't accepting new clients due to staff shortages and an unprecedented surge in demand for companion animal health care.
Saratoga, NY - With veterinary hospitals struggling to find workers not much can be done when a racing horse now injures a leg or loses a race.
Normally if a horse would injure a leg or lose a race it would be treated with ketamine and steroids but with not enough veterinary workers out there to administer the doses things are going vintage and the good old days are being brought back.
A local businessman and horse owner puts the feeling of the public into words, " This is actually quite fantastic if you ask me and I think over time the public agrees with me. If you think of it like this, let's say I'm a father which I am, and my son catches a disease from let's say a homeless man, would you allow him back into your home? or if I was a baker and I have a bad batch of yeast I am going to throw it out rather than spend time caring for it in hopes that it gets better. It's the same thing with horses, like children and yeast they are assets, and if it's not bringing helping then you need to get rid of them." As a reporter in the area for the past 50 years, I have to say that I think he summed up public opinion perfectly.
We asked a local jockey, but he was too high to actually answer any of our questions.
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