>>I've never heard of that being considering practicing veterinary
medicine by the lay judge and these events have been going on a lot longer than
endurance rides and there is one at the Biltmore every year. As far as treatment
a licensed vet can supervise a unlicensed vet in most states and that's
perfectly okay.
Here in North Carolina an unlicensed vet can not
check for soundness, give any type of shots, even down to checking HR if you
take the law literally. Last fall there was a vet in Raleigh who had a close
friend who ran a boarding barn. This vet used this person's boarding barn as his
treatment facility, he checked the horses every mornign and night and left
instructions for the barn owner to administer various injections and do misc
tasks throughout the day. That was against the law here and the vet ended up
losing his license for 2 years and having a sizeable fine.
How vet laws here are very stringent, I got my copy
out since my first post. It is illegal for anyone other than a licensed vet or
the horse owner to do anykind of veterinary procedures, even telling someone
that you think their horse might have whatever can be prosucted here. They don't
take it to those extremes very often, but it can be done with our laws. With our
laws here I don't loan books, uncontrolled vaccinces and drugs, etc... to anyone
because that can be considered practice of veterinary medicine without a
license.
That said, out vet board is pretty cool about not
taking that law to the extreme. Our inspectors are reasonable people with a law
enforcement and animal background, but it's seems like it would be a liability
anyhow.
