Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:00
PM
Subject: RC: Getting Horses across
Borders
Thought you guys might find this interesting:
(esp. you Howard),
In order to get a horse across the
Canadian/American border, you not only have to have a Coggins, but a health
Certificate done by a vet in the last thirty days. As far as I understand, it
costs from $70 - $80 per horse. I live in ND and we have few endurance rides
and Manitoba has some great rides, including the Great Northern Connection,
that we would love to attend, but the price of getting our horses across the
border has always stopped us, esp. when you have 5 horses to get across.
Well, I am a pet groomer and my shop is only
around 25 miles from the Canadian border. I had a guy call me from Manitoba
and ask if I would do a hunter clip on his two springier spaniels. He arrived
at my place with the two dogs in two separate, huge kennels in the back of his
open pickup. I asked him how hard it was to get the dogs across the border and
he said it was NO PROBLEM!! He told the border guard that he was taking the
dogs to a groomer, And the border guard did not ask for papers and he did not
even LOOK at the dogs. Just waved the guy through. When the guy picked up the
dogs after the groom, he was taking them to Minot, ND to stay with his
son for the weekend. He took them from my place into the city, and then back
across the border a couple of days later, NO PROBLEM!!
Now wouldn't it be nice to do that with horses.
And I have got to wonder why it is so easy to get dogs across and not
horses???? After all, dogs can carry rabies......and a number of other life
threatening diseases.
Lynette