"Ed, you have to stop blaming yourself...you did nothing wrong!"
Dr. Thomas Wilson is accused of breaching professional ethical standards by having sexual relations with a patient while the doctor was still a student in Oklahoma. Normally a student’s misconduct would not result in sanctions almost two years later, after graduation and certification, but, you see, Wilson is a veterinarian, and his patient at the time of their illicit relationship was a horse.
The good doctor, who now practices at an animal hospital in Pennsylvania, is charged in Oklahoma with a “crime against nature,” but the ethical aspects of what he did go far beyond that. It is a breach of the trust with a patient incapable of informed consent. It is an abuse of power. It is animal cruelty. It is really, really, icky.
Are there such things as registered animal-sex offenders? I certainly hope so. Dr. Wilson should not be allowed within 100 yards of a race track, a rodeo, a farm, the Central Park carriages, or the set of AMC’s “Hell on Wheels.” The idea that he will be able to just pay a fine, go to some therapy sessions, and then blithely return to his equine practice without having to tell Mr. Ed’s owner that be has a record of horse-rape is unthinkable. Please tell me, Pennsylvania, that some kind of law protects your horses against sexual predators in sheep’s clothing?
[Thanks, I think, to Drew Curtis’s Fark for the link]
Ethics Alarms 
As both a former Pennsylvanian and the son of a life-long horse owner,
EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
–Dwayne
Horses are beautiful creatures.
Damn you, Jack! At “Wilson is a veterinarian…” I sprayed coffee all over my keyboard and display.
UM… Can you please tell me how it comes to light this long AFTER the horse rape???? Was the horse so embarrassed it didn’t come out until therapy? I mean really- what was the delay???
There’s got to be a great punchline here, but I can’t find it.
Could it be that the doctor had Mr. Ed convinced it was an authorized medical procedure???
All I can say is “Oh, horsefeathers…..”
Mr. Ed is really a terrible example, since he really could say “No.” The other horses could only say “Nay.”
It’s unlikely that the horse would say “Nay”. Most mares are pretty hot-to-trot.
. . . at least, that’s what I read in a recent Gallup poll.
Arrrghhh! How could I have missed THAT?
In these days of broken promises and shattered marriages, is it really so bad to look for a stable relationship?
(At least it IS a punchline, which was more than you could cough up.)
You have my unbridled admiration.
Evidently Wilson thought he was a REAL STUD.