Source:  News Release

AAEP Board Adds New Member, FullBucket Co-Founder Dr. Rob Franklin

Equine veterinarian Rob Franklin, DVM, DACVIM, co-founder of FullBucket Animal Health a division of Animal Stewards International, has been selected to serve in a national post within the American Association of Equine Practitioners. 

Elected after a vote by AAEP membership, Dr. Franklin will serve a 3-year term on the association’s Board of Directors. He sees this leadership position as that of a ‘servant-leader,’ stating, “My new role gives me the opportunity to serve my veterinary colleagues as I continue to advocate for the profession.” 

He continues, “In addition, the AAEP’s mission to improve the health and welfare of the horse world-wide dovetails into my own mission with FullBucket where we advocate for working animals in third world countries, provide those animals with nutritional supplements with our One-For-One program, and train working veterinarians and vet technicians in the areas we visit.” 

In his role with FullBucket and the Texas Equine Veterinary Association’s Equitarian Project, Dr. Franklin recently returned from a weeklong mission trip to Guatemala with a group of other equine vets and veterinary students. While there, he helped examine and treat over 250 rural-area pack horses, provided further education for local veterinarians, and donated veterinary supplies to World Horse Welfare, an international association working to better the living environment of horses world-wide. 

Dr. Franklin was installed on the Board during the December 9^th President’s Luncheon at the 60^th Annual AAEP Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

ABOUT FULLBUCKET  

Veterinary Strength GI Products 

"For Every FullBucket You Buy, We Give One To An Animal in Need!" 

Rob Franklin, DVM, DACVIM, Keith Latson, DVM, DACVS and Robo Hendrickson are the founders behind FullBucket veterinary strength supplements for horses and dogs. FullBucket is a line of animal GI healthcare products that are used by the top veterinary clinics and Universities in the U.S. as a protocol to help fight GI disease and related problems. 

They’re also the people behind the idea of “Be Good & Do Good,” which is their movement to get the animal healthcare community involved in helping animals in need worldwide.  

While volunteering their veterinary services to the Equitarian Initiative program in impoverished areas of rural Mexico, Dr. Rob and Dr. Keith witnessed the hardships faced by Working Equids – donkeys, mules and horses used for hard labor to support families and communities throughout the world. 

Their solution to the nutritional problems they saw in abundance was simple: use their for-profit, nutritional business in the U.S., FullBucket, to provide support without being reliant on donations. 

We see FullBucket as an opportunity to make the world a better place. 

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