Mounted search and rescue

["Claudia LaChance" <Claudia@tqc.com>]

I often ride in the local neighborhoods, especially when the time is short 
to ride. We live in an over developed area with lots of city folk who 
believe that living in the "country" means NOT having to see or smell or 
"GOD FORBID" run over a poo pile in the road. A month ago my daughter and I 
were stopped for social time with 3 young kids. While they were petting our 
horses a woman screeched to a stop behind I us. Frankly I thought she might 
hit us.
Turns out she was one of those above people and began to scream (yes scream) 
that we were dirty rotten people for allowing our dirty filthy diseased 
horses to poop on her road. Our township does have a loose requirement to 
clean up our poo. In 15 years they have never enforced it.
She scared the dickens out of those three 8 yr olds and ticked me off. 
Finally I told her to take a hike after I was polite for too long. I did 
some research and came up some very interesting literature.
I googled something like "health risk to humans, horse manure" and came up 
with a study done about how it's NOT a risk. In fact it's the least 
dangerous.

Claudia LaChance
www.horseaddiction.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Nesbitt" <spanishequines@yahoo.com>
To: <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: [MSAR] WEEDS, SEEDS and GOOD DEEDS!


> [Deleted HTML duplicate, added In-Reply-To header.  -Una]
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>  Personally folks, I would be more worried and real concerned about what 
> goes into some of the compost farms than I would be about the horses 
> pooping on a trail or roadway.  I would be real concerned about heavy 
> metal poisoning and things of that nature. That people dump in their 
> dumpsters that do not get sorted properly to go either to a landfill or 
> compost dump.l
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>  And if you get your hay out of road ditches, well, take a gander and 
> search and read about at MIL SLAG and its detriments...the runoff from the 
> roadways into the ditches carry one heck of an environmental impact....
>  .
> http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/factsheets/grows.html
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>  One last site, let me throw this in for heavy metals....
> http://www.leadinspector.com/?OVRAW=LEAD%20POISIONING&OVKEY=lead%20poisoning&OVMTC=standard
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>  Karen Nesbitt
>  MSAR - ILLINOIS UNAFILIATED
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>  (Sorry to be so long and windy, but you all just opened a big can of 
> worms when it comes to horses and manure and stuff on the trail....and so 
> what does all this have to do with MSAR - well, you figure it out before 
> you call 911!)
>
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