Don Höglund, DVM, is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine educated at Colorado State University, with emphasis in Companion Animal Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Nutrition, Oncology, Pharmacology, and Equine Sports Medicine. He is the owner and president of two companies: 

 --International Veterinary Consultants, a national and international animal health care and animal welfare consulting firm serving pharmaceutical companies, the departments of Interior and Defense, the USDA, the pharmaceutical and the entertainment industry. 

--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.

Dr. Höglund helped to develop, produce, train horses 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.  He was the Special Animal Consultant to Mr. Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, for two years and 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. He has 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.  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. He won a national honor from the US Army for his successful work on this project.

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.  In addition to his veterinary acumen, Dr. Höglund, who also an MS degree in business and economics, has an extensive marketing background.

Dr. Höglund continues to train cutting horses and gentles problem horses at his home in New Mexico and in Willow Spring, North Carolina. He strongly supports the wild horse management in the wild using fertility control such as the longer acting SpaVac™ and wishes all would financially support the Shackleford, Chincoteague and Assateague horse foundations.  Please contact your local and national Congressional representatives and tell them to reverse the Burns Amendment and fund, in perpetuity, fertility control for wild horses, thus stopping the potential for wild horse slaughter while at the same time maintaining free-roaming horse populations at eco-friendly levels on our multiple-resource-use public lands.

Dr. Höglund supports the electronic health certificate programs of Global Vet Link and the animal identification programs VetGateUSA. He reads and contributes to the good health and equine feeding products and services represented in EquuSSource magazine, quarterly.

For reservations for seminars and talks please contact Dr. Hoglund at drdonhoglund@nobodyshorses.com and visit the Nobody’s Horses Web site to purchase signed books or for more information and photos at www.nobodyshorses.com.  A portion of the net proceeds from the sale of each book at the Nobodyshorses.com Web site goes to the horse foundations listed above including Forsterhorse.com and the National Park Service.