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Re: [AERC-Members] [RC] BLM adoptions at rides. - oddfarmI know the answers to all your questions about all of my horses. But that isn't the real issue. Stop skipping around it. You said, "Endurance riders are some of the most appropriate potential owners/users of the BLM wild horse and endurance riding is the perfect performance sport for these horses." Now, while everyone (yes, everyone) agrees that mustangs CAN do endurance, they are NOT the top choice for endurance. I'll bet for every mustang doing endurance, there is 100 Arabs. So how in the heck did you decide that WE were the "most appropriate potential owners/users of BLM" horses? Because that sure doesn't make any sense. No one disagrees that this breed, or any breed CAN do endurance. But ride results dispute your statement. Endurance riding is the perfect performance sport for Arabs, that is why they excell. I am all for fundraising. But raffling off animals is never a brainy idea. Besides, is that really in the best interest of the horse, or the best interest of AERC? Who's interest comes first? Tell me, is AERC going to get into the business of finding horses GOOD homes now? Because we can't even find our way around our own equine welfare. Working on that first, is in the best interest of the horse, all breeds, now and forever. Isn't that what AERC is about? This whole adoption/raffle thing leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. What exactly will AERC gain by having a few adoptions at a select few rides? Where can we find and read this "agreement" between AERC and BLM that will be such a benefit? Will AERC help the ride managers financially at these select sites? How much will that cost? How exactly will we work together on trail issues? Fellow ridecampers, no one (including Heidi) is saying that mustangs are the bottom of the heap. And it is NOT about the horses themselves. The point of this thread was that some of us object to participating in the adoption process for various and valid reasons. We need to concentrate more on our own humane issues right here at home. And in my opinion, BLM needs to concentrate more on their own issues, as well. BLM does not need us to bring people to the adoption sites. They bring in a full house all by themselves. Cheap horses. What they may be looking for is horse people validating the adoption process. I would have no objections to that if I knew that they were also trying to prevent massive, poor breeding. At least, one or the other. How come AERC hasn't been able to come up with funds so that we could have a research team at some of our bigger rides or championship rides? More often than once in a blue moon? You know, so we could find out more about crashes, treatment, how to prevent it and educate our members? Our very own HWC could probably use some funds to be able to prepare better reports, do more in depth research and find out and share what we the owners can do to prevent problems at rides. That would benefit all breeds of horses that are involved in our sport. Wouldn't it? I would really like to read this agreement and also hear what Jerry Fruth thinks about this since he is the trail boss. Maybe between reading the agreement and comments from Jerry, those of us who object may be able to make some sense of it all. You also said, " This outcry by a few people is blown out of proportion compared to the benefit AERC gains by this association with the BLM" Please, spell it out, elaborate, convince us ALL so that we may be better educated. Don't just tell us how hard you worked on it to get the end result. What is it that math teachers always say? Show me your work and how you got that answer. Lisa Salas, The Odd FarM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy H Eiland" <renegade12@xxxxxxxx> To: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <AERCMembersForum@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [AERC-Members] [RC] BLM adoptions at rides. Heidi, I would venture an educated guess that most of our members do not know the prior history of their equines. Regardless of whether the equine is registered or not, I suspect most members don't know the following information about their equine (some will know this info): 1) who the breeder was 2) past care and maintenance schedule to include worming, farrier work, vaccination schedule, etc 3) who the sire and dam were (without looking at the registration papers) or what they looked like 4) past performance records of the lineage of the equine I might be wrong, but I don't think so...- I hope that I am wrong and that the vast majority of our membership is knowledgeable of the above important information. This is another excellent question for the long overdue AERC Questionnaire (another subject for another time). This outcry by a few people is blown out of proportion compared to the benefit AERC gains by this association with the BLM Randy Eiland =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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