Olde Towne Equine - Dr. Kate Moga DVM, ACCC/AVCA

I have used Dr Moga for my horse and donkey care for about five years. She is thorough and compassionate but sensible. She understands that we think of our animals as part of our family. She carefully explains her examinations, diagnosis, and recommendations. She patiently answers our many questions. She respects the fact that our children participate in the care of our animals and includes them in conversations on how to care for our horses. She even showed our granddaughter how to do exercises with her new horse to help him be more flexible. Dr. Moga has as excellent rapport with the doctors at the veterinary school at Va Tech. She was able to quickly get our deeply loved and gravely ill mare an appointment at Tech so that she could be treated by the highly skilled team of caregivers there. I highly respect Dr. Moga. I appreciate that she is willing to come to our not so fancy often muddy hobby farm to loving care for our little herd.

Dr. Moga has been my only equine vet for the past 9 years. She is an exceptionally hard working Dr. that honestly cares about mine and my client's horses. My show horses would not excel without her dedication and knowledge. From dentistry, vaccinations, chiropractic to lameness she does everything for my horses!

I am very glad that Kate has been my horses' vet for the past couple of years! In the past I used a practice that sent a different young vet to my barn every time. Kate understands that we have a relationship with our horses, and takes the time to listen to my concerns about my horses and our needs, and is always helpful with carefully considered, knowledgeable care. I would recommend her with no reservations.

We had a mare on the farm I was boarding at who had odd bloodwork and was going into false pregnancies. Our normal vet stopped practicing briefly while on maternity leave so this owner consulates Dr Moga who came out did a thorough exam and told the owner that she suspected the mare to be pregnant because there was stud donkey on the farm and wanted to pull blood. When she told that owner her pony was pregnant it raised alarm to everyone on the farm. I consulted Dr Moga and had blood pulled on my mare to be sure she was not subjected to the donkey as well. A few days past and she calls me telling me my mare is defiantly pregnant and she is sorry. I was so puzzled because I was sure she had no access to the stud. I of course panicked because my pony has foundered in the past ( this would be a high risk pregnancy not to mention I no where near wanting a mule foal.)I asked about options and if aborting a foal due to high risk pregnancy was an option if she was in early pregnancy. She told “ there is no way to do that.” After a heated altercation with barn owner calling him irresponsible with his inability to keep his donkey from my mare i started asking around. Doing research, I find out that though it isn’t preferred you can in fact abort foals if early enough. I know it isn’t ethical and I wouldn’t have considered it but again having a mare who would be a high risk pregnancy I had to consider my options. Another vet gave me the name a facitlity 60+ miles from me who could better help us explore our options. Fast forward to another couple weeks, I call to schedule an appointment and I trailer my mare ALL the way out to bluemont to the fabulous vets of Equine Reproductive concepts. When we pull her into the barn and do an ultrasound and discuss our options..... her uterus was empty my mare was NOT pregnant. We all jaw dropped in disbelief. The vets asked to see the bloodwork she pulled and confirmed that she didn’t even test the correct hormone in the bloodwork to confirm the pregnancy. SO another 500$ her mistake coat me. Honestly, I wasn’t even mad just relieved we are human and make mistakes. When I called Dr Moga to let her know that my mare wasn’t pregnant and that the wrong hormone had been tested she immediately became defensive and tried discredit the ultrasound and vet. The whole conversation was completely unprofessional with her attempted to belittle me.!Side note... the other mare she diagnosed as pregnant, wasn’t pregnant either. All the money was wasted on “prenatal care” for nothing.

Received a Donkey for a companion for my horse who lost her brother and sister within the past year. Animal was on the property for one week when she started acting as if she may be sick. Called my normal vet to take a look at her, but he was out of town so we ended up with the vet on-call for him who was Dr. Kate Moga. What a mistake that was. My husband, the farrier, and the owner of the property went to the stable prior to me walking down, and when I came outside to go to the stable, all I heard was a scream from the vet, so I hurried to the stable and when I got there I could not understand what was happening. My husband was in the stall with the donkey, and the vet was outside in the walkway. I asked the remaining individuals what was wrong, and all they could do was just shake their heads, stating she is afraid of the animal. When I asked again, they said that Dr. Moga ran out of the barn screaming for no apparent reason at all. I stood there watching to see what was going on, the Doctor was totally scared of the animal and she is supposed to be a vet. I have never seen a vet so scared of an animal as she was. She would do nothing to the animal unless my husband and the farrier held the animal down. She gave the animal a paste which was to calm it down but would take 40 minutes to do so. The animal seemed okay to me at that point. While the animal was in the stall by herself with the door closed, and my husband tried to take Dr. Moga by the hand to show her that the animal had been going to the bathroom normally, Dr. Moga got nasty with him stating that she already told him that. As he tried to show her something in the stall, she pulled away from my husband and threw her arms up in the air stating that quote "I don't know you, don't touch me." She decided in 10 minutes that she wanted to take blood from the animal, and with my husband holding the animal's head and the farrier at the back end of the animal, she tried to get blood from the same area 3 times before she got it, and totally ran out of the stall after she got the blood, with blood flowing down the animal's neck. It took a couple of minutes to get the results that the donkey had a bacterial infection, but when I asked her what it was or what may have caused it, I was nastily told that she did not know, just that it was a bacterial infection. When my husband tried to pay her for the visit, she told him that she did not know how much it was yet and that she did not take credit cards. This can all be verified by myself, my husband, and the two other individuals that were there along with us. I would not take my cat or dog to this vet ever, and hopefully you will reconsider before you take yours to her since she is afraid of her own shadow. When she was first called to look at the animal she acted like she did not want to come to check the animal out. It was after the second call before she agreed to come to see the animal.