Mounted search and rescue

[bonnie elster <elster530@yahoo.com>]

Nevada County - Gary Dodds - has some good rescues to tell about.

MSAR Maintainer <msar@ibiblio.org> wrote:Lee Farren wrote:
>Hello MSAR-Riders List-
>
>I'm a freelance journalist working on a mounted search and rescue story
>suggested by the editor of Western Horseman Magazine. I stumbled upon the
>MSAR list and found it fascinating.
>
>I want to tell the story of a specific mission, probably a rescued missing
>person, in which horses figure prominently. Western Horseman is a horse
>magazine, so the focus will be on how the group uses horses and what it's
>like to carry out a search and rescue operation on horseback.
>
>May I inquire through the MSAR list for members who might be willing to
>share a story? If so, could you tell me how to go about it?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Lee Farren
>Freelance Journalism
>PO Box 53
>Ukiah, OR 97880
>541-427-3047
>leefarren@bmi.net

The above was sent to me off-list but was intended for
MSAR-Riders, so here it is.

Una
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I would like to reply to kicking horse's,  Yes mare's are more apt to kick 
but I've been around geldings that kick also and yes you can teach them not 
to but it needs to be up to the rider every time that horse gets ready to 
kick or bit he sends a signal, you need to learn to read your horse. It is 
to hard for other riders to have to watch out all the time for your horse, 
we have been out on search practices as a group and if your busy looking for 
signs or looking at your compass or maps all of a sudden you look up and 
your right in the striking zone. If you have a horse that is a hazard to 
others then you should not be in a group until you have control of your 
horse.
Pam Williams
Iron County Search & Rescue
Utah
P.S. All horse's kick I am talking about chronic kicking and bad 
behavior.----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Fleming" <pfleming@nwlink.com>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Training mares not to kick


>I doubt its possible to teach mares not to kick. Horses being what they are
> in all.  I feel its far safer to be aware of the striking distance of any
> horse and do your best to stay away. This has served me well. This past
> weekend I was standing beside my horse observing the training going on 
> when
> one of the members of my unit lead her horse right in front of us up 
> closer
> than I would have approached had I been walking up to the horse. I 
> remember
> I had a sence of danger at the closeness but chose to ignore it, I knew 
> the
> horse, she'd be ok Seconds later my horse ducked and I got my hand up in
> time to shield my face but took a pretty good shot to the back of the 
> hand.
> I don't know what that big dummy did but she sure didn't like it and let 
> us
> know. I have been around that mare for a couple of years and she is not
> known for kicking or agressive behavior....She' s just a horse and that's
> what horses do.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
>
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