Towards the psychology of horse purchase and pre-purchase examination

Purchase Examination of the Western Show and Performance Horse

The western show horse is the largest group of performance horses currently being shown in North America today. Breeds such as the American Quarter Horse and the American Paint Horse dominate the total numbers of foals being born and registered annually in the United States. Without doubt veterinarians who are currently performing purchase examinations, no matter the geographical location of th...

Imaging Considerations in the Purchase Examination of the Performance Horse

Completion of the purchase examination often includes various imaging techniques such as endoscopy, radiography, and ultrasonography. Other more advanced techniques such as thermography, scintigraphy, and magnetic resonance imaging may be appropriate in some cases. What to image and what modality is appropriate depends on the information gathered during the physical examination and the horse’s ...

Implications of Melanoma in the Pre-Purchase Examination

The biologic behavior of equine melanoma can range from localized, small, and non-invasive to metastatic, proliferative, and catastrophically invasive. Therefore, it is important during the prepurchase examination to note and accurately record the presence of any tumor suspected as melanoma, capture its current status photographically, and clearly communicate to the potential buyer that its fut...

The Benefits of Pre-Purchase Homeownership Counseling

Our paper provides an empirical assessment of the effectiveness of pre-purchase homeownership counseling in reducing 90-day delinquency rates. We use data on nearly 38,000 fixed-rate, purchase money mortgages originated under Freddie Mac’s affordable lending programs between the years 2000 and 2008. We take efforts to control for the quasiexperimental nature of our data, as well as the heteroge...

Towards understanding online purchase behavior