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I live in Montana and Wyoming is not part of the 6 western state health 
passport.  With as many rides that are sanctioned in Wyoming, I would be 
more inclined to attend some of those if I didn't have to take my horse in 
every 30 days to get a health certificate.  Why Wyoming is not part of the 6 
month horse passport I don't know.  It would make sense since Montana, 
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and I believe Nevada are part of it.

Jessica Cameron with Cyclone, and Cysco in Helena

> From: "Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M." <suendavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <suendavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Laney Humphrey'" <laneyhh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [RC]   Fw: health passport
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:35:58 -0700
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> >Who is Dr. Brietmyer?  My suspicion is that your letter says exactly why
> >such a change would be hard to push through: all the vets who make
> >money issuing health certs. every 30 days will appeal to their (very
> >strong) lobby to oppose such a change.
> >Laney
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> FWIW, vets (at least equine vets) don't have a particularly strong lobby.
> Even in California and probably less so in other states other than maybe
> Kentucky.  I wish we did, we'd have better luck dealing with some of the
> illegal practicing-medicine-without-a-license crowd and other issues.  
> Hell,
> we're lucky we even have a mailbox at the Department of Consumer Affairs---
> Ahnold wants to put *all* the licensed professional boards under one roof 
> to
> be run by a non-veterinarian entity.  Wouldn't THAT be lovely?
>
> Writing out health certificates aren't a significant source of income or
> profit, at least not in our practice.  It takes me about 30 minutes on
> average to do all the paperwork involved, get in and out the door and I get
> $30 for it.  I do also get a $52 farm call, but with gas at $2.50 a gallon
> and fighting LA traffic, believe me, there's no profit in that whatsoever.
> I have to generate a lot more than that per hour to pay bills and take home
> a paycheck and I sure don't make it writing health certificates.
>
> I'd be more than happy for HCs to be valid for six months.
>
> JMO.
>
> Susan Garlinghouse, DVM, MS
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