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  • From: Ruthie Franczek <ruthiefranczek@hotmail.com>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Airscent horses?
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 20:56:39 -0400

OK thank y'all  for the responses!  I will ponder this.
Ruthie


> From: tfinkle@erols.com
> To: msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 20:17:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: [MSAR] Airscent horses?
>
> Hi Ruthie.
>
> Yes, as some of the others have already said, air scenting to locate people is possible with some equines. Equines just like some
> canines, all do not make suitable airscent SAR animals and not all horses can do this.. However, horse alerts in general is
> something that all horse do because they are a prey animal, but the riders must pay attentions to animal as some alerts may be very
> faint. With practice and training, I got my horse to alert on people, as did some of the others here on this list..
>
> Horses are motivated by three main things and they use scent, vision and hearing to locate; food, other horses and to locate things
> (they think) may eat them. As seen in cutting and team penning horses, horse can also be motivated by the desire to dominate. Find
> a source that works for you and your horse and work on alerts and air scenting..
>
>
> If you want to learn about horse airscent, follow the teachings of Terry Nowacki, he is the best person to learn from. His website
> has already been posted.
>
> T'mi
>
> ________________________________
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> From: msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ruthie Franczek
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:02 PM
> To: Mounted search and rescue
> Subject: [MSAR] Airscent horses?
>
>
> Does anyone know about training a horse to scent or even if it can be done?
> Ruthie
>
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