Mounted search and rescue

["Terry Nowacki" <wwfarm@wiktel.com>]

Good Morining Una and All

About the cadaver horses, in a condensed nut shell you are right on the
money. Yes there are some natural cadaver type horses that have a kinda
weird attraction to it. MSAR riders have to learn to correctly read and ride
these unique equine.

Just recently on one of the K-9 sar groups that I belong to, they were
discussing a search where a cadaver was finally found in area had been
previously searched using several different search tools including Mounted.
I may not have all the details of this story 100% correct, but in  a nut
shell, whey they studied the area where the body was finally found, the
tracks
told the story that the horses and even deer tracks veered a considerable
distance on
either side of the immediate area even when they were originally headed  on
a
direct course that would have went right on top of the body..

The majority of horses will try to avoid cadaver if possible and they can be
very sneaky about it. Do not always expect a big noticeable sign from your
horse, many times it is a very subtle avoidance that would take a trained
rider to pick up on it.

TER
Training Officer and Director for Marshall County Mounted Sheriff's Posse -
An 80 plus membership MSAR organization.
http://www.equinedetectionservices.com