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RE: [RC] what's the point... - eznetIn my husband's practice the vast majority of colic cases occur at home and a significant portion aren't discovered until it is too late (something's ruptured). In a ride camp the first signs are at least seen and treated. L Llop WNY -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Susan Garlinghouse Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 3:56 PM To: jlong@xxxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] what's the point... Blaming that problem on endurance riding just because that trip happened to be to an endurance ride is ludicrous!!! I can't believe people are actually trying to justify this. Once more, with feeling, please. I'm not saying the problem occurred because it was an endurance ride, and wouldn't have occurred regrdless had the destination been anywhere else. I don't care about one-rat studies, I care about the majority. Sorry, you cannot convince me that the majority of metabolic crashes at rides don't occur BECAUSE those horses were at a ride (or a show, or racetrack, or wherever). What I'm saying, repeatedly, is that physiologically, the event starts for the horse as soon as he steps in the trailer, regardless of where he is going, or how far. And, IMO, I think it is a dangerous precedent to allow the majority of riders to think "this would have happened anyway" when a horse dies or needs metabolic treatment at a ride. IMO, it should be the other way around---assume this animal needed treatment because of something that occurred at that ride, be it overriding, dehydration, toxin ingestion along the trail, whatever, but also look for the cause to see if it maybe was a neoplasia, an abcess or the hand of God. I realize this approach smacks of Napoleonic law, but I also think the horse deserves the benefit of the doubt in reviewing what went wrong after the fact. There are already too many riders with dead horses assuming that peeing coffee and falling over dead is just "bad luck" rather than what it really is. Speaking only for myself, that's unacceptable. JMO. Susan Garlinghouse DVM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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