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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 > > ________________________________ > > 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 > > > > /msar-riders > > _______________________________________________ > MSAR-Riders mailing list > MSAR-Riders@lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/msar-riders |
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