Mounted search and rescue

["Julie Hensley" <julie@petwearusa.com>]

Una,

EARS offers seminars to groups all over the country about such issues.  I am
not sure that they currently offer information regarding horses or other
livestock but if they don't I am sure they would be appreciative of any
information you could provide them.

Julie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Una Smith" <una.smith@att.net>
To: <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: [MSAR] Equine evacuation preparedness


> Horse owners in Florida with any sense will be prepared to shelter
> in place;  the state is essentially impossible to evacuate.  Too
> many people and too few routes off the peninsula.  For wildfires
> here in New Mexico I also encourage horse owning friends to prepare
> to shelter in place, but many horse owners expect also to evacuate.
> So my MSAR team will be giving a series of clinics for a community
> at particularly high risk.
>
> Does anyone here have relevant evaluation forms already prepared?
> We could use forms for trailer rig safety checks, trailer driving
> skills, horse handler's trailer loading and unloading skills, and
> (last but not least) horses' ground manners and trailering skills.
>
> We could also use some forms for developing individual evacuation
> plans.  Eg., a form where the horse owner writes down where they
> will take their horse, contact names and numbers, how they will
> mark their horse in case someone else takes it, relevant issues
> to keep in mind (horse freaks about X, horse needs medications or
> a special diet), etc.
>
> Una Smith
> Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse
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