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  • From: "LAURI STRUVE" <lauris10@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Training question
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:59:04 -0500

Great ideas, Una, Thanks!
Lauri


> [Original Message]
> From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
> To: <obsar1864>; Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 4/18/2005 9:50:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [MSAR] Training question
>
> Lauri,
>
> Some training we've wanted for a few years now, but have yet to
> put together, would be the following hands-on clinics. You would
> need a cooperative horse and owner.
>
> 1. Pulling a horse shoe and nails and resetting the shoe or
> putting on an easy boot or duct tape protection or rasping the
> hoof on the spot so the wall is not badly damaged on the trip
> back to base camp.
>
> 2. Proper application of leg wraps, a staple of equine first
> aid demos that is rarely attempted by anyone in the audience.
> Have participants roll polo wraps the correct way (so velcro
> comes out on the outside, facing the leg), put them on the
> horse, and have the horse do some work. See whose wraps stay
> up. Discuss safety issues wrt wraps: loose or tight wraps
> on a horse not used to wraps can be expected to result in a
> panic attack for horse and/or human.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Una
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