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RE: [RC] Horse ID / Great idea - Nancy Mitts

I make a reflective/glow collar with 1 1/2" webbing that attaches with Velcro. This weekend someone suggested I add a small dee ring so people can attach on of those ID disks. It IS a great idea!

Nancy Mitts
Stablegear Tack


From: "Laurie Durgin" <ladurgin@xxxxxxx>
To: pdemott@xxxxxxxxxxxx, ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC]   [RC] Horse ID / Great idea
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:27:23 -0400

Yeah ,I got one on my saddle, I thought about bridle , but it could maybe come off-- But my saddle, beta breastplate, neophrene girth and crupper---I figured it would be the last ot come off. I also put my name on some of my sddle pads in laundry marker.I even 'wrote ' on the underside of my saddles, (ah, before I got black ones.).


From: "Peter DeMott (937) 478-6222" <pdemott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ride Camp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   Horse ID / Great idea
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:25:30 -0400

I saw something at an Endurance ride recently that was an excellent
idea. The rider had those little "doggie" identification tags attached
her horse's bridle and saddle with her name an cell phone number
listed. If she got dumped on trail or otherwise lost her horse people
would know who to call.

On the two rides that I've photographed there have been lost horse
issues. In one case two horses took off halfway tacked up and were
found in the woods by hunters who brought them to a ranger station.
The riders were reunited with their horses only after they had finally
returned to camp after their own search. It took several hours to
determine whose they were as the riders had not even mentioned to lost
horses to the ride manager.

In another case several horses took off through camp at 2am. They were
found 8 miles out of camp down well traveled paved roads. I don't know
how they figured out whose they were. A bridle tag such as this would
have helped immensely. The were recovered banged up in the late
afternoon.

As long as your horse at least has their halter on, people can figure
out right away who to call about a horse they find wandering along the
road.

Something I must get around to right away. My wife and daughter ride
endurance.

Peter DeMott

? Photography ? http://www.photosbypdemott.com


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