Tweedie and Associates-Horse and Equine Vet Melbourne
06-12-11 - Anatomy of the carpus explained
This is the first in our online anatomy explained series. We have started with the carpus and we will slowly work our way through the horse.
09-11-11 - What does training marine animals and a showjumper have in common?
Training an international showjumper can be a long process with many hurdles presented along the way. This video shows the career of a great showjumper called Judgement ridden by Bezzie Madden to 3 Derby victories at Spruce Meadows in a row, what is truly amazing is this horse arrived with a phoebe of water, and wouldn't jump a puddle watch this video to see how they looked outside the box to help this horse.

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Tweedie and Associates

Servicing the Melbourne Metropolitan, Mornington Penninsula and Yarra Valley areas, Tweedie and Associates is a first opinion ambulatory practice committed to providing a holistic veterinary service encompassing all aspects of performance horse management. We offer professional, ethical and personalized care to a broad spectrum of horses including racing, dressage, jumping, eventing, showing and pony club horses.

Our special interest is the management of the performance horse and we are unique in our commitment to becoming part of the 'team' and helping to ensure the health, wellbeing and success of your horse.

We help our clients achieve competition success by taking a proactive approach to the integration of the veterinary management of their horse with their competition goals. As well as the diagnosis and management of existing injuries, our veterinarians are committed to practicing preventative medicine and are happy to provide our clients with advice specific to the management of the performance horse on topics such as joint care and podiatry.

To enable us to offer our clients the best in point of care diagnostic imaging, our practice has invested in the Eklin digital radiography system and the very latest in portable ultrasonography. Each ambulatory veterinarian is equipped with a top of the range ultrasound machine, endoscope, opthalmoscope and blood lactate monitor. This allows us to offer the highest standard of care to all our patients.

Routine consultations are between the hours of 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday. Emergency cover is provided 24 hours a day.

We are pleased to offer our clients routine consultations and services charged at our standard rates on the first and third Saturday of every month between 9am and 5pm. All fees for Saturday consultations must be paid at the time of the visit. Saturday consultations must be booked by the preceding Thursday of that week.