Mounted search and rescue

[Karen Nesbitt <spanishequines@yahoo.com>]

A little off topic, but dealing with some of the discussion of recent days regarding horses and buriel etc.

 

Perhaps before someone even buys a horse, consider checking into these websites first. Ownership is a long time commitment.  Not every one should own a horse or keep one for someone else.

 

If any of the links fail, please let me know....

 

http://vetgate.ac.uk/browse/cabi/detail/d0f7d560afdb19241c77a.html

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-AN/INF-AN_EMERGEUTH-HORSES.HTML

http://ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincod/008/00800090section.html

www.iaopc.com

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ac/

Karen Nesbitt

Iroquois County

Illinois - USA

 

PS - back on the topic of the Illinois Truck Wreck... when was the last time the vehichle hit safety lane?  did the speedometer work, etc....do any of our MSAR vehicles require state inspections??  Winter is coming.. it only takes a minor slip on ice, but if you got infractions on safety, you are only a disaster waiting to happen.  Gitterdone!  Get it fixed. Do a pre-vehichle check before turning the key and after you got it running, get out again, check your lights and exterior or have someone else do it and walk behind you.  Are the tires, brakes good on both the tow vehicle and trailer?  are they matched for each other  and I am not talking color here.  There seems to always be the arguement that ther is no difference on a live weight load over a dead weight load.  If you think it is the same, you best guess again. 

Liveweight, it is too easy to overcheck on a turn or a stop.   You need to work on that and how the loads shift.  Surely when you have umteen draft horses  there is a grand shift factor that if you have not been driving loads like that for a long time, you simply cannot be totally prepared to handle and same with your smaller loads.  Until you got it inexperience, you do not have it at all.  Not all vehichles require a safety lane check, but on the ones that do and if the guys and gals at safety lane are not worth a hoot, then we are all in trouble.

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