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  • From: Kinch <kinch@shaw.ca>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Horse air-scent training, Vancouver Island, Canada
  • Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19:25 -0700

Thanks for sending that on Una. I didn't know that the story made a major newspaper chain. The original article was 2 pages with photographs. Our group is really looking forward to Terry's clinic. Currently, in Arrowsmith Search & Rescue we have 12 members in our Equine Search Assistance Team (8 trained Ground Search & Rescue Specialists and 4 who have completed our local Equine Search Assistance Course). Hopefully, with all this publicity more SAR groups on Vancouver Island will look at equine teams in the future.

In our SAR group, we just don't have mounted members. Our group currently consists of ground pounder teams, a rope rescue team, an avalanche rescue team, a water rescue team, a tracking team and a K9 team along with our equine team. Together, we have a great SAR group. Many of us are cross trained and are members of several teams. This makes for a great "working relationship".

I'll try and do up a small article after the clinic in April.

Joe Kinch
Arrowsmith Search & Rescue
Vancouver Island
----- Original Message ----- From: "Una Smith" <una.smith@att.net>
To: <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:33 AM
Subject: [MSAR] Horse air-scent training, Vancouver Island, Canada


Newspaper story "Horses get a chance to prove they're up to sniff":

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=0549ad60-10b0-4e5b-bba7-bb8aae68f268

The trainer mentioned in the article, Terry Nowacki, has posted a
wealth of information about air scenting horses on MSAR-Riders,
all in our public web archive. Try our Google search interface:

http://www.ibiblio.org/msar/msar-riders.html

In the Vancouver Sun article Terry is quoted "The rider needs more
training than the horse." In my experience that is true more often
than not. I have seen horses alert on a "subject" hiding in bushes,
only to have their riders correct them for offering to depart from
the assigned task of (ahem) finding the subject.

An outfit in Vermont trains air scenting horses and holds clinics:

Vermont Mounted Response Unit
http://www.horsepatrol.org/

Enjoy,

Una Smith
New Mexico

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