Sid Gustafson
Novelist and Veterinarian

The Importance of Hock Health

The Gustafson brothers, Sid, Barr, Wylie, (photo by Erik) Greta, Nina, and Grandpa Rib up the South Fork of Birch Creek behind Swift Dam

Sid and daughter Nina, with Spek the blue merle border collie, pack tripping through the Bob

Iceland, waiting for the tide to go out to ride across the bottom of the sea under the glacier... Tolting, pacing

Equine Veterinary Services focuses on Natural Approaches to horse health. Dr Gustafson specializes in equine behavior and equine sportsmedicine. He has offices in Bozeman, Montana where the geography allows returning horses to their natural environment to facilitate physical and mental healing. Additionally, he travels to New York to perform regulatory veterinary medical services at Finger Lakes Racetrack in Canandaigua, NY. Sportsmedicine venues include the legendary Saratoga meet each August, as well as the Standardbred Harness Racing meets across upstate New York.
Performance horse veterinary services include medical consultations regarding the diagnosis, treatment and resolution of lameness. Additionally, Dr Gustafson designs and develops treatment and rehabilitation strategies that satisfy equine preferences, resulting in faster, stronger healing. Remedies focus on conventional medicine while utilizing natural approaches facilitate healing.
Prepurchase examinations, resolution of equine behavior issues, prevention of lameness, and appropriate horsemanship for performance horses are areas of Dr Sid's expertise and interest.
Dr Gustafson is licensed to practice in New York, Washington, and Montana, and offers consultations throughout the United States and worldwide. He assists horsemen in the design of health and conditioning strategies in accord with the horse's nature and preferences. Re-creation of natural circumstances facilitates peak mental and physical health and performance.
Dr Gustafson focuses on the fulfillment of natural preferences for confined horses--enrichment strategies that accommodate the horse's nature and inherent preferences result in enhanced, consistent, optimum performance. Natural approaches prevent the development of lamenesses, behavioral problems, and illness.
Additional services include non-surgical lameness resolution, and enrichment strategies to soothe and heal horses exposed to excessive confinement, travel, and competition.

Thoroughbred conditioning at Saratoga