Don Höglund MS, DVM
MS – Agricultural Economics
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine educated at Colorado State University, with emphasis in Livestock Production, Companion Animal Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Nutrition, and Equine Sports Medicine.
Contact: e-mail: drdonhoglund@nobodyshorses.com and visit the Nobody’s Horses Web for more information and photos at www.nobodyshorses.com.
Dr. Höglund is the owner and president of two companies:
International Veterinary Consultants, a national and international animal health care, equine training services and animal welfare consulting firm serving pharmaceutical companies, the departments of Interior and Defense, the USDA, the pharmaceutical and the entertainment industry including The Walt Disney Company.
Prion Technologies, a firm which consults on such animal diseases as Mad Cow disease, Chronic Wasting disease, and Sheep Scrapie, has validated - in collaboration with and at the bio-secure labs of USDA - a prevention and decontamination procedure invented by Dr. Höglund for the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Wildlife Research Center.
In addition to acting as a principle in “Livestock Trust” and “DairyStockmanship.com” Dr. Höglund teaches “Horse Trust” advanced horse handling for veterinary professionals for North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. The two-week course concentrates on safe, efficient large animal handling techniques for practice applications.
Dr. Höglund helped to develop, produce, train horses, bison, and cattle for and market the largest grossing for-profit, live-entertainment production in Europe—Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show at Disneyland Paris—for the Walt Disney Company. As the Special Animal Consultant to Mr. Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, for two years Dr. Höglund selected and trained the Eisner family personal horses at Disney’s Golden Oaks Ranch north of Los Angeles, California and for such noted actors as Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith in Aspen, Colorado. As a consultant for the film industry, Dr. Höglund often acted as liaison and veterinarian to the animal welfare coalition for many feature films, including City Slickers, Lonesome Dove, Silverado, Desperado, the PBS production of The Black Stallion, and others. Dr. Höglund also served as the in-house animal husbandry consultant for Mario Luraschi in his roles at the Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for its renowned horse show, King Arthur’s Tournament, and at Euro Disneyland, Paris.
Between 1986 and 1992, Dr. Höglund fulfilled seven annual contracts with the Department of the Interior’s Wild Horse Prison Inmate Training Program, which gentled thousands of wild mustangs for adoptions to good homes nationally and worked with hundreds of prisoners, teaching them the merits of a non-violent, gentle life. His work in the program earned Höglund Congressional recognition for humanitarianism.
In 1994, Dr. Höglund gained earmarked funding of $2.5 million for the removal of free-roaming ranch horses from the two million acre White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. He provided onsite technical consultation, capture planning and direction, veterinary care, nutritional formulation, and the coordination of nation-wide adoptions for nearly two thousand feral horses from the range.
In recognition for his outstanding service in the veterinary industry, Dr. Höglund has twice been nominated for recognition as Veterinarian of the Year—by Congressman Bill Richardson in 1988 and by the United States Department of Defense in 1996.
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